Artists

Sarah Browne, Bryonie Reid & Fiona Woods - Rhyzom

Title of Exhibition: 'Commons'

About the Exhibition:

Commons is an exhibition that takes place primarily in the windows of Leitrim Sculpture Centre, activating the shopfront with posters, projections and notices. This exhibition draws together work by three artist-researchers who worked together with PS2, Belfast as part of the Rhyzom research network, which maps emerging cultural productions in diverse European local contexts. 'Commons’ is an ethos for assembling more just and equal worlds that has considerable currency at this time.

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About the Artists:

Fiona Woods' poster and zine project, collection of minds #1, is an exploration of the idea and practice of 'commons'. Drawing on a network of people from around the world, the artist assembles a collection of perspectives on that which is common, both historical and contemporary, and places that assemblage of ideas directly into the public domain. Woods takes the 17th century English Diggers as a starting point to explore the concept of commons relative to land. The exhibition also includes contributions by Ece Sariyuz, TUR (Public as commons) and Fernando Garcia Dory, ESP (Utopia as commons).

Bryonie Reid's projection piece, inclined to wander (part two), is a set of texts and images representing three walks undertaken in Leitrim in 2010. The walks drew physical, intellectual and emotional responses which Reid mediates verbally and visually, with an interest in the person of the walker, the material landscape through which she walks, and her cultural interpretations of that landscape. Each walk having taken place in a Coillte plantation and culminating at a house swallowed by commercial forest, the work gestures towards the complexities of private and public space in Ireland.

Sarah Browne's research has resulted in an artist book, Lebensreform in Leitrim, that will be launched as the closing event for the exhibition. A kind of experimental ethnography, the project addresses the countercultural legacy of migrants to the Northwest and evokes an emotional geography of desired alternatives. Like other of the artist’s projects, Lebensreform in Leitrim describes improbable, but actually existing narratives, and suggests the necessity of desire for developing new forms of economic and social imagination. This project has been developed through a residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre in 2009.