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Safe Pass Training

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Fearghus

“The FAS ‘Safe Pass’ Health and Safety Awareness Training Programme is a one day safety awareness training programme aimed at all construction site personnel, including new entrants, to ensure that they have a basic knowledge of health and safety. It … read more…

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Ernest Pignon-Ernest

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Fearghus

Adrian ( www.gai-savoir.net) has drawn my attention to this work of Ernest Pignon-Ernest who makes interventions in the public space with beautiful trompe l’oeil drawings of human bodies. He affixes the drawings to buildings and leaves them to weather. I … read more…

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EastBerlin Flap

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Fearghus

Near the EastSide Gallery in Berlin, I found this open space to do my flip-flop flap dance. Something about Berlin (the background dope scent?) made me want to do silly, irreverent movement though the music with this clip pulls it … read more…

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Wounds or graves

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Fearghus

Working in Berlin this week, I responded again to the similarity of building sites to open graves in the city. ‘Dead like you’ – the graffiti on the building on the corner of Rosenthalerstrasse underlined the connection though I’m not … read more…

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Our ‘green’ Taoiseach

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Fearghus

Thanks to Fintan O’Toole Irish Times article about Bertie Ahern this weekend (Sat, Jun16)(http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/newsfeatures/2007/0616/1181771177107.html), I have a readymade link between urban construction, destruction, Ireland and China. ‘No Irish political leader has ever been so openly contemptuous of environmental concerns. This … read more…

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The Black Book

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Fearghus

Looking at the Grand Canal Theatre video material, I remembered images from Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book. It’s a kind of detective novel set in Istanbul but the novel is as much about the city and its expression of Turkish … read more…

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Grand Canal Theatre

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Fearghus

I’ll write about this later but there’s something familiar in this juxtaposition of the exposed earth and the aspirational construction that made it the right home for me to sense and move. It is fitting that Iarla Ó Lionaird’s music … read more…

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‘There’s the funny man again’

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Fearghus

“‘Funny’ = ‘ha! ha!’ or ‘funny’ ‘peculiar’?”, my father might have enquired. I guess these middle class kids romping in IMMA’s formal gardens on a Bank Holiday Monday were in their own polite way agreeing with the ‘psycho’ comment of … read more…

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Niche

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Fearghus

She’s standing in a little place she’s found herself – a vantage point and hideout. She’s inserted her body in the space defined by the hard walls and soft foliage. And from this place she watches the crowds on the … read more…

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Rebecca and site specific chat

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Fearghus

Specifically, we were in the kitchen this morning talking about the difference between the kind of site specific work which still takes place within a clear frame (a start and end time, a defined location, a ticketing system which controls … read more…

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