Day One Today
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| Artist Name(s) | Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly |
| Artwork title | Day One Today |
| Context/Background | Day One Today was commissioned in the context of the Limerick School of Art and Design’s moving to new premises on the site of the Good Shepherd Convent on Claire Street in Limerick. The building had housed a Magdalene laundry until it was sold to the Regional Technical College in 1994. The existing building was refurbished and new facilities built, with the chapel becoming an exhibition space. Day One Today is placed in the main entrance hall beside the entrance to the chapel, and makes both physical and metaphorical references to the building and it’s history, as much through the choice of materials as through the choice of treatment of image. Thus the images could be interpreted as referring to a past that is slipping away from us, while the materials refer to the decorative motifs and surfaces of the original building. |
| Description | Day One Today is an artwork about a specific place moving through time: the (new) entrance hall to the Limerick School of Art and Design, inhabiting an (old) convent building on Clare Street. An institution then, but like Heraclitus? stream, this art school is a continual stream of changing faces and ideas, different each time we step into it. Day One Today attempts to capture this sense of advancing time. This paradox of temporality and permanence runs right through the work. |
| Mediation | A publication was produced in conjunction with this project Autumn entitled In the Works, published by Gandon Editions. |
| Biographies | Award-winning artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly live and work in Paris, where they moved in 1990 following architectural studies in Dublin during the 1980s. After a lengthy collaboration with the esteemed French urban theorist Bernard Huet in the early 90’s they developed a long lasting interest in the filmed city. Patterns of behaviour, both in cities and within our institutions, are a central preoccupation of their work; and these they examine through narrative and interactive video, installation, photography, and text. Anne and Denis see their work as an ongoing engagement with the world. |
| Commission Type | Schools/Colleges |
| Commissioner Name | Limerick Institute of Technology |
| Commissioning process | Open submission competition |
| Project commission dates | December 1, 2009 - December 1, 2010 |
| Artform | Visual Arts |
| Funded By | Dept. Education and Science |
| Percent for art | Yes |
| Budget Range | 35000 - 70000 euro |
| Project commission start date | 01/12/2009 |
| Project commission end date | 01/12/2010 |
| Location | Limerick School of Art & Design |
| County | Limeri |
| Street Address | Claire Street Campus |
| Website | www.connolly-cleary.com/Home/day_one_today.html |
| Content contributor(s) | Anne Cleary |
| Relationship to project | Collaborating artist |
| Public engagement | Students were closely involved in the creation of the piece, and continue to be a part of it every day. |
