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Anna Boyle,
Jesse Jones, 1st July - 15th August 2005.
Anna Boyle, Jesse Jones, 1st July - 15th August 2005.
Pallas Heights, Number 30 Sean Tracey House, Buckingham Street, D1.
Anna Boyle's new work "Final Phase Launching"
is a techni-coloured
installation of painting, drawing and flowers.The work stages an
emotional display emblematic of cultural gatherings, funerals and
celebrations, oscillating between regret and protest at the failures
of standardised modernism,official planning and the bombardment of
new property development.Imaginative possibilities are recreated
within the predetermined plans and structures of the space,
reconfiguring relationships of psychological, technological and
social nature.
Jesse Jones' new work seeks to locate the cinematic
potential within
the everyday situation.She has produced a new work on site in Sean
Tracey flats. The work uses the film score to the 1955 film on the
Waterfront, which explores the Dockers' trade union struggle in 1950's
America. Shot in a desolate half demolishes space the video depicts a
moment that has passed.
The second video work in contrast is a documentation of the recent GAMA
workers strike.The Turkish GAMA workers were on strike for non-payment
of wages as well as union recognition,while working on the Ballymun
regeneration construction site. Their struggle reminds us that real
social regeneration is not something that is constructed architecturally
but is manifest instead in forms of political and social solidarity.
Both videos use music as a way of catalysing a moment of unity within
these experiences of resistance, as well as a type of conjugate that
can link social struggles historically.