Moving Dublin & Luas Carol
A complex new video work that explores the everyday world of movement in Dublin by Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly, featuring sound compositions by DinahBird and Jean-Philippe Renoult.
Over the past year we have been collaborating with the video artists Cleary/Connolly on their two year project City Loops/ Moving Dublin project, a series of videos and installations that explore the everyday world of movement in Dublin and its vast sprawling suburbs spreading out west from the coastal city. We were commissioned to compose soundtracks to several of their videos including You'll come and find the place, an excursion to a packed suburban shopping centre, Fly Away, an aerial view of contemporary Dublin and Luas Carol, a journey on the city's speedy new tramway.
Luas Carol is a cinematic voyage on this new tramway, itself a moving eye through the city. The film represents not one journey but a composite image of many journeys in many different times or seasons. We imagined that the train itself was a Dolly, and existed solely to provide us with perfectly smooth moving shots of Dublin. The shots, realistic and concrete as the train slows down and stops, transform as the train gathers speed. Words, sounds, and images from another Dublin, another time, another place, an impression, an image or an idea all merge to recreate the dreamy, almost drugged state that one slips into while looking out of the window of a moving train. Luas Carol is an ideal journey, where movement, sights, and sounds reflect the living, moving city. (Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly)
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Moving Dublin has been commissioned by South Dublin County Council through In Context 3 and funded under the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government’s Per Cent for Art Scheme.
