calling all those lovers of this town -The Moore Street Lending Library -S27 - O15

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Monday September 26, 2005 13:57

by dunk

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open participative creative systems for a better world

The Moore Street Lending Library is a unique public access space/facility/resource which will be managed by participating artists for three weeks from 27th September, with a dynamic and one-of-a-kind launch event on 30th September (see page 4 for further info). It is an event marking the social, economic and political life of the historic quarter of Dublin surrounding The Moore Street Market area.
Contributions and donations are welcome at The Moore Street Lending
Library from 27/9 unitl 15/10 2005.

Individuals and groups are invited to use the resource during the three
weeks of its existence as a meeting space, reading room and research
resource for information relating to the Moore Street market area of
Dublin, its histories and future development.
it is hoped that seomra spraoi and indymedia will participate in this event, along with many other activists, artists, anarchists, buddhists, clowns, discoers, eccentrics, fun lovers, gandhians, hippies.........

is this the death of Moore Street - NOT IF WE CAN HELP IT

links and background:

seomra spraoi
Seomra Spraoi collective invites you to a night of play, art, discussion, film, food, disco
(includes many many links to audio, photo, essays, groups, events......)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71888

Take Back The City
summary of last saturdays free street party and more
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72157

Food not Bombs Dubv3.2 - The Story So Far
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66179&search_text=moore%20street
punks who get free "waste" food from the street traders and use it for feeding activists on demos, at events or giving to the homeless at night

communication is the key
past attempts at moore street festival and exhibition
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62183&search_text=moore%20street

previous indymedia ireland stories about moore street:

is this the death of moore street?
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66571

through streets broad & narrow: crying five for 50, and ten for a pound. The end of Moore Street?
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69798&search_text=moore%20street

16 Moore Victory? Rally & March { photos & audio }
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=48165

The Moore Street Lending Library, more
In association with Dublin’s Fringe Festival and Fire Station Artists Studios, The Moore Street Lending Library will open its doors at:
55 Moore Street from 27th September to 15th October 2005.

Current artists of The Moore Street Lending Library include:

John Beattie, Mark Clare, Susan Gogan, Amanda Healy, Daniel Jewesbury, Sarah Kenny, Glenn Loughran, The Metropolitan Complex, Katherine Sankey, Louisa Sloan and more tbc.

The artist Katherine Sankey initiated the Moore Street Art Project with Fire Station Artists’ Studios.
Moore Street Lending Library is curated by Sandra Grozdanic, Declan Sheehan and Sally Timmons
Email: [email protected]

The Moore Street Lending Library : Where? When?

Visit The Moore Street Lending Library web page for information about the artists involved with the project and updates of programmed events for The Moore Street Lending library during Dublin’s Fringe Festival 2005 or visit the Moore Street Lending Library to pick up a free programme of events and information about this unique project happening on Dublin’s historical market street – Moore Street Lending Library, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance Sampsons Lane), Dublin 1. Open from 11.30am – 7.30-pm Tuesday – Saturday. Entrance can be gained to The Moore Street lending Library on Sampsons Lane (around the corner from Talk Cents call centre).
http://www.firestation.ie/pps/index.html
Email [email protected] for more info.

The Moore Street Lending Library - Open from 11.30am – 7.30pm Tuesday – Saturday. 27th September to 15th October 2005.

Launch event, 3pm-7.30pm, Friday 30 September.

Entrance can be gained to The Moore Street Lending Library on Sampsons Lane (around the corner from Talk Cents internet café and call centre).

Moore Street Lending Library, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance Sampsons Lane), Dublin 1.

Planned projects by artists at the site include a radio broadcast, a newsheet publication with contributions from local business owners and residents in the area, including performances and screenings in the venue - which will also be open as a learning resource and drop-in centre open to the public and invited participants for three weeks. The library will exist as a kind of - shop of curiosities - whose shelves will be packed with artifacts, documents and useful information related to the street, its histories and future development. Suffice to say, that this is a unique and groundbreaking project which attempts to step away from the conventional approach of developing community-based artistic interventions and seeks to become a sustainable and useful resource in the ever changing and evolving fabric of Dublin's inner city.

There is also an open invitation to artists to participate in this unique event by using The Moore Street Lending Library in their practice as a resource, or through a response to it - for part or all of the time of the project. All participation in The Moore Street Lending Library will be archived, and covered in the regular publications emanating from the site.

Moore Street Lending Library artist’s info:

John Beattie
John Beattie is currently artist in residence at Draiocht, Dublin. He completed an MFA at The University of Ulster in 2005. The artist has exhibited both in Ireland and internationally since 2001. Beattie’s work is about the process of making art and its cultural and aesthetic motivations.

Mark Clare
Mark Clare is an Irish artist currently based in Dublin’s Temple Bar Galleries and Studios. He completed an MFA at The University of Ulster in 2004. Clare is founder of The Potlatch foundation - in existence since 2003 – dealing with social concerns through a wide range of mediums. The artist has exhibited internationally and has had solo exhibitions in Japan, China, Norway, and Derry among other places. Clare will be exhibiting in Temple Bar Gallery in August 2005.
[email protected]

Susan Gogan
Susan Gogan is an Irish Photographer based in Dublin. Gogan is a co-founder of the artist led initiative - Via and has implemented off-site shows in Dublin’s city centre since 2001. The artist is currently investigating issues surrounding social space in the modern urban environment through photography. Gogan received the award of Arts Council Bursary in 2005.
http:/www.via.ie

Amanda Healy
Amanda Healy was born in Co. Cork, Ireland. She graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology with a B.A. Photography in June 2005. Healy is the youngest of the artists who have been selected to take part in The Moore Street Lending Library and this is an exciting departure for this emerging artist’s career. Healy’s practice considers political and social issues and is consciously ephemeral in its production quality to allow for easily reproducible material for mass distribution. Healy was awarded a Cork 2005 Bursary for a body of work title: Safe.

Daniel Jewesbury
Born in London in 1972, Jewesbury completed a research-based PHD in University of Ulster in 2001. Jewesbury is currently editor of the critical newssheet - The Variant and has been a member of Catalyst Arts in Belfast for over ten years. Jewesbury’s art practice currently examines biography, memory, political and historical truth, and the ‘authority’ of different forms of narrative.
http;//www.variant.randomstate.org

Sarah Kenny
Sarah Kenny is an artist based in Firestation Studios, Dublin. Kenny implemented her first solo show, Here Came The Summer, in 2004. Her artwork uses text and video to make biting critique of life in Ireland. Sarah Kenny is one of the original artists to initiate The Moore Street Lending Library.

Glenn Loughran
Glen Loughran is an Irish artist based in Dublin’s inner city. Loughran completed an MFA at the National College of Art and Design in 2005. His current body of work - Cosmopolis is based around research into urban practices such as The Theatre of The Oppressed originally introduced to Ireland in 1982 by the cultural activist Augusto Baol. For Cosmopolis, Loughran constructed temporary architecture “to make room for different kinds of production and discourse”.

Sarah Pierce
Sarah Pierce was born in the USA and is based in Dublin. Pierce is an artist, curator, and writer. The Metropolitan Complex is a visual arts practice that occupies social space in a variety of ways, including a publishing project by Pierce set up through group and one to one exchanges.
http://www.themetropolitancomplex.com

Katherine Sankey
Katherine Sankey is an Australian artist currently living in Dublin. Sankey initiated the Moore Street Art Project with Fire Station Artists’ Studios helping them to apply for revenue funding for the project as well as developing a body of research around the history, present situation and future plans for Moore Street before the project was handed over for curation in March 2005. Sankey’s interests lie in connecting artistic activities to wider audiences and she has exhibited and contributed to projects both in Ireland and internationally.

Louisa Sloan
Louisa Sloan graduated from The National College of Art and design, Dublin in 1999, she has since completed a masters in Film Production and Theory through The Dublin Institute of Technology. Sloan employs a variety of mediums, more significantly photography and video in order to explore personal anxieties and desires. Sloan is currently artist in residence at Firestation Artists Studios, Dublin.
http:www.louisasloan.com

The Moore Street Lending Library launch event

The Mr Whippy Sound System (an ice-cream van converted into a sound system) will park at the laneway beside the Moore Street Lending Library for the afternoon/evening event. Babalonia Dj’s will feed the atmosphere with a cosmopolitan mix of urban beats.

The launch will be a casual event running from 3pm to 7.30pm , allowing people working around the area and on the stalls to close up shop and come along for a drink and some locally produced food.

This innovative and unique launch event is possible only through the generous support of Bia bar and its regular Friday night set - Babalonia, which will be the follow on evening venue for the daytime launch.

The Moore Street Lending Library : Where?-When?- How?

Visit The Moore Street Lending Library web page for information about the artists involved with the project and programmed events for The Moore Street Lending library during Dublin’s Fringe Festival 2005

http://www.firestation.ie/pps/index.html

or visit the Moore Street Lending Library to pick up a free programme of events and information about this unique project happening on Dublin’s historical market street – Moore Street Lending Library, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance Sampsons Lane), Dublin 1.

Open from 11.30am – 7.30-pm Tuesday – Saturday. Entrance can be gained to The Moore Street lending Library on Sampsons Lane (around the corner from Talk Cents call centre).

Email [email protected] for more info.

The Moore Street Lending Library - Open from 11.30am – 7.30pm Tuesday – Saturday. 27th September to 15th October 2005.

Launch event, 3pm-7.30pm, Friday 30 September.

Entrance can be gained to The Moore Street Lending Library on Sampsons Lane (around the corner from Talk Cents internet café and call centre).

Moore Street Lending Library, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance Sampsons Lane), Dublin 1.

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Comments (9 of 9)

from the organisers

Mon Sep 26, 2005 14:08

looks like a lot of interesting stuff
again plug in and participate

"to hold the street against british imperialism" street theatre

from the net to the streets

Tue Oct 11, 2005 18:23

moore st radio will soon be out on the streets, we have already been broadcasting in the lending library, now to the streets
more info
communication is the key - the revolution is on, here and now
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71892&search_text=radical%20radio#comment123768

Update: Week 4: Tuesday 18th October …(email recieved from MMLL)

Wed Oct 19, 2005 14:25

MOORE STREET LENDING LIBRARY

update/round-up of MSLL.
Please find below some relevant information with more to follow in the
coming days and weeks…

All participation in The Moore Street Lending Library will be archived,
and covered in the publications produced through the resource [the time
frame on this cannot be outlined as yet but information will be posted
regarding the web-site and Daniel’s archive publication project over
the coming weeks]

The venue has been kindly left in the hands of The Moore Street Lending
Library participants until Saturday 22nd October. The resource will not
be open to the public but will be used by Glenn Loughran and other
participants in order to undertake projects and to archive the library’s
contents.

Moore Street Lending Library participants and Fire Station Artists
Studios would like to thank Minna Oberg, Ethna O’Regan and Mandi O’Neill
for their constant support throughout the project.

A social event is being planned and discussed by MSLL, if you have any
ideas about where the participants should meet to talk about the
project and its development and continue contact in the future please get in
touch.

Round-up:

Moore Street Lending Library

* Contributions have consistently been made to the Moore Street Lending
Library prior to and during the three weeks that it was open to the
public. Contributions have not only taken the form of historical data but
include, audio tapes, visual material [including photographs and maps]
documents, letters, texts, mintutes from meetings, anecdotal stories
etc…All of the participants including artist’s contributions to the Moore
Street Lending Library have been catalogued and will be documented and
archived by MSLL.

* John Beattie commenced using Moore Street as a studio or practice
location prior to the opening of MSLL. He became acquainted with most of
the people who use the street to conduct daily business and truly
re-located his practice to the Library space and The Moore Street location
for the duration. The artist presented some of the works produced from
this time in two shops on the street and they have been archived in The
Moore Street lending Library catalogue files.

* Dunk - a social activist/artist who became involved with MSLL through
initial support of the project via email. He has since commenced
liaisons with Glenn Loughran in the venue and has undertaken a number of
radio web broadcasts from the Moore Street location:

http://www.radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/7200.php

* Susan Gogan’s large photographic piece which was shot on Moore Street
in August 2005 remains installed in The Chinese Supermarket opposite
MSLL. On the second day that the piece was in situ the artist noticed
that a piece of tape had been placed over some signage represented in the
image. Apparently, Kevin [the owner] was not happy about the photograph
advertising another business on the street. The tape remained stuck to
the photograph for the duration and Gogan intends to attempt to remove
it after the piece has been removed from the venue. This has raised
interesting debate in relation to site-specific practices.

* During the three weeks of The Moore Street lending library’s public
opening times, Amanda Healy conducted repeat screenings of:

Films included:
Civic Life by the Desperate Optimists
The Street by Liam Nolan
Looking On by Se Merry Doyle
Moore St. Montage kindly assembled and donated from the IFI archives

Suniva O’Flynn (Archive Curator at the Irish Film Institute) introduced
A Moore Street Montage during an evening screening in The Central
Library close to Moore Street and Se Merry Doyle also introduced his film
Alive Alive O - A Requiem for Dublin before the screening.

Liam Nolan introduced his film - The Street during one of the afternoon
screenings in The Moore Street lending Library space at 55 Moore
Street.

The screenings were a successful means to attract visitors and users to
the Lending resource and instigated great discussion and social
activity around MSLL.

* Daniel Jewesbury has commenced his role as archivist:documentation
for Moore Street Lending Library. Over the coming weeks the artist will
be working in collaboration with MSLL participants [all participants
will be contacted regarding this] in order to compile and evaluate the
results of what has been a complex and multi-faceted project.

* Sarah kenny’s theatres were present in the Moore Street lending
Library space for the duration of the three week event. The pieces were a
direct conversation point for visitors to the space and were located on
the stairwell leading to the room where MSLL was housed.

* Glenn Loughran and the research team who include himself, Emer
O’Boyle, Raul Arajo and Cisa Moraes have undergone major flux over the
development period prior to the opening of MSLL and during the weeks that the
resource was open to the public. The group will continue to work on a
chosen proposal which has arisen through MSLL and its existence on Moore
Street. This will be documented in the coming weeks.

* Alan Magee approached The Moore Street lending Library prior to the
opening of the event and expressed an interest in becoming involved with
the project. The artist installed a life size - contemporary flaneur on
the side of Ilac centre building for four weeks. The piece exists as a
representation of the face behind the camera surveying all who pass by.
Along with Louisa Sloan’s speakers, this piece will remain in situ
indefinitely.

* Metropolitan Complex papers will be available for distribution [for
free] towards the end of this week. A round-table discussion was held in
The Moore Street Lending Library during the first week that the space
was open but due to recording problems the group needed to reconvene
during week 2 of the project. Rather than attempting to re-enact the
original conversation the group continued the conversation form where they
left off while considering the context that The Moore Street Lending
Library had been in situ on the street for one week.

http;//www.themetropolitancomplex.com

* The Potlatch Foundation held a lunchtime talk in Top Chapel on Moore
Lane during week 3. The event had a low attendance but the discussion
was rich and further ideas have spawned from some of the issues raised
during the event which was documented through video recording. The
recording may be transcribed in some form in the coming weeks.

Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) are local, non-profit exchange
networks in which all kinds of goods and services can be traded without
the need for money. A LETS network uses an interest-free local credit or
currency so direct swaps do not need to be made. LETS can help a wide
cross-section of the community -- individuals, small businesses, local
services and voluntary groups -- to save money and resources and extend
their purchasing power. Other benefits include social contact, health
care, tuition and training, support for local enterprise and new
businesses, and a revitalized community.

* Louisa Sloan’s broadcast of a series of daily, 30 minute live
transmissions of her practicing to roll her ‘R’s at Moore Street Lending
Library were relayed at the exterior of ILAC centre on corner of Sampson’s
Lane and Moore Street, from 8am-8.30am each day from Tuesday - Saturday.
The speakers remain in place on the corner of the Ilac building until
she can access a crane to remove them.

http://www.louisasloan.com

* Katherine Sankey’s video drawing – Atomic Narrative was installed in
Everyday Supermarket on Moore Street for the three week duration of the
event. The piece depicted footage captured through journeys in and out
of the many spaces and pathways claimed by Moore Street’s users. The
back-projection was displayed on an oval screen adhered to the window of
the shop and allowed for viewers outside the shop to view the footage
throughout the day and early evening.

* Artist, Sally Timmons has expanded her role in the later stages of
Moore Street Lending Library’s development. Having spent lengthy periods
in the No 55 venue, travelling in and out of the building and up and
down the stairs, Timmons was moved to initiate a proposal to make-over
Genevieve kearin’s dated chiropody clinic signs located on Sampsons Lane
and in No 55 Moore Street. Timmons believes that this action is another
form of using the resource to develop her own socially-engaged artistic
practices and feels that this is a unique opportunity to leave her own
mark on Moore Street. The documentation of the old signs and the new
will be catalogued and archived in Moore Street Lending Library.

* Artist, Ciaran Walsh commenced research and development of a fantasy
model for Moore Street in the library resource. Walsh is using found
materials from around Moore Street to build a scaled model of his
projections for the area earmarked for development. Walsh is continuing to
build the model in The Moore Street Lending Library premises – since the
event closed on Saturday. The completed piece will be made available
for viewing on Moore Street in the coming week.

Moore Street Lending Librar, 2nd floor, 55 Moore Street (entrance
Sampson’s Lane), Dublin 1
email: [email protected]

images from the moore street radio project and screenings

Tue Oct 25, 2005 16:50

the guy talking to glens initial response to glens "what do you like about the street?" was "clear out the niggers selling crack"

the project did not turn out as best it could have, apologies for this, sometimes it cant be helped- external matters force that

anyhow, the project is not over, its only the beginning and perhaps there can be further work between MMLL and the new social centre for the city on abbey st??

Seomra Spraoi collective invites you to a night of play, art, discussion, film, food, disco
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71911

the moore street lending library, planning action

architectural model, how a greener moore st. could be

building up the radical radio network- from cd playing in a sterio to a full live stream

moore st. radio- up and running, glen interviews someone from the street

imc radio moore st.

fighting against the destruction of the city-

Tue Oct 25, 2005 16:54

photos from screening of se merry doyles film, looking on, about the festival to stop the destruction of inner city communities

u2 played on the roof of sheriff st
dealing with heroin abuse was a big issue
they had fake islands in the liffey, and gigs from the soup

great film, ill try to get it screened again

U2 play a free gig off rooftop in sheriff st @ 1982

further destruction of the city

colorful communities

glen does a radio interview on the street with a passer by

Tue Nov 01, 2005 18:25

glen does a radio interview on moore st.

links to moore st. screenings- maybe see them again in the cities social centre

Fri Nov 04, 2005 15:14

moore street free lunchtime screenings
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72429&search_text=moore

films watched
"civic life" - the desperate optimists
"looking on"- se merry doyle
"the street" - liam nolan (DIT media)

Alive Alive O- moore street screening
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72428&search_text=moore
Alive Alive O- a requiem for dublin
Se Merry Doyle's acclaimed documentary on street trading in Dublin

perhaps they could be showed again in the seomra spraoi:
social centre screenings in seomra spraoi 6pm
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72753&results_offset=30#attachment15554

dublin spike as a radio antenna

Fri Jan 27, 2006 17:15

found some pictures from the lending library experiments in setting up a street radio station

moore street radio antenna

the spike as radio antenna

moore street wall as communication space

planning in trader johns

a radio station from the street for the street

audio files; brainstorming and festival feedback

Sun Feb 26, 2006 20:24

building up the (radical radio)network - brainstorming 6.5mins
activists and our use, or lack of, the radio network
antenna construction
radio plans
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/building_up_the_netw...u.wav

moore st lending library festival - feedback
glen and ciaran discuss the festival and what it tried to achieve and how it all worked out
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/lending_lib.wavpansu...9.wav

these and other audio files can be found here:
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/8730.php

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calling all those lovers of this town -The Moore Street Lending Library -S27 - O15

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