Courtesy of Copenhagen X, a group which promotes architectural awareness in the Danish capital, I have come across this photograph of a stone sculpture outside the Jewish Museum in Copenhagen.
Not unlike the type of carefully finished and beautiful stone artwork we envisage on the Falls to welcome visitors to the Gaeltacht Quarter.
Expect more discussion on this topic throughout the week as Irish America's greatest artist Brian O'Doherty and his wife, the cultural commentator and art historian, Barbara Novak arrive in town to view potential sites for the new artwork and meet the team on this side of the pond which will be headed by Robert Ballagh.
There will be a community reception for the New Yorkers in the Cultúrlann on Wednesday evening which will give them a chance to meet with the Irish language community.
80-year-old Brian, who was signed his work Patrick Ireland for over 30 years as a protest against British military repression and the lack of equality in the North, before 'burying' Patrick Ireland at a Dublin ceremony last year is more a slides kind of guy than a Powerpoint guy.
But hiring a slide projector in Belfast isn't as easy as it used to be. It took quite a few phone calls before we found a firm willing to hire us a projector. They found one abandoned at the back of the store. The good news, rental cost is only £20.
1 comments:
I'm glad to see that the Gaeltacht Quarter hasn't entirely slipped your mind and respectfully point out that if the piece of public art is to be the front end 'failte isteach' aspect of the Ceathrú, then it's time to start on the back end. And there also should be a website. It's nothing short of a disgrace that the Ceathrú Gaeltachta website is still 'under construction' so many years on.
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