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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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Guild Street in the sun

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Fearghus

I went back to Guild st in the sunlight with trainers that I didn’t mind getting dirty, in the hope that I could so some more energetic movement. I had reckoned on the intersection being so busy with people on … read more…

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Guild Street graffiti

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Fearghus

I waited in the studio today knowing that the rain shouldn’t be an impediment to my wanting to move around outside but I didn’t want to get my trainers wet and besides I was on a physical roll in the … read more…

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Docklands Tagging

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Fearghus

I reminded myself today that while it’s great to have time in the DanceHouse studios, the point of this research has always been to place my choreographed movement in the urban space in Docklands. ‘Urban space’ is a vague and … read more…

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