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Perdember 2nd Weekend

December 12, 2008 — December 14, 2008

Creative Spaces

As part of an ongoing series that moves throughout Dublin, Creative Spaces presents spaces for creative experimentation for artists of all genres. The working concept of “no stage, no set list, no (traditional) audience” allows performers freedom from the constraints of scheduled performances. This event is not programmed and is open to musicians and performing artists.

The Surrounding

Claire-Louise Bennett

“Even on a hot day, even from a distance, you could see, as the handle of a wooden spoon lowered into a fresh tin, how cool it was. How cool the paint was, going across the walls.”

The Surrounding is a story of place, its the story of the boundary that confines, conceals and protects place, its about being here and those walls there, its about psychical reach and the skin’s despair. Its about brilliant white and French doors, it’s about the sudden appearance of ducks and emulsion paint drying on a cardigan sleeve, its about creosoting the fence and drawing the wind. It’s a constellation of consciousness, a network of sensory output, its about coming into a room and coming into being, its about you, its about you, its all about you, its everywhere and its moving in.

The Surrounding is living text, vivified and transmitted by Claire-Louise Bennett. From the comfort of an armchair. In a room somewhere.