Project Arts Centre presents
This event is part of Clear Away the Rubble / Glan an Spallaí ar Shiúl.
Avril Corroon will give an online artist talk presenting her practice along with research ideas for her artwork DAMP TANK which will be hosted at Project Arts Centre through-out the year.
As part of the open research project on housing Clear Away the Rubble/ Glan an Spallaí ar Shiúl, Corroon is launching a collection point for damp DAMP TANK. Taking the simple form of a water barrel, Corroon is specifically looking for donations of damp in watery state extracted from the air of households through dehumidifiers. Instead of discarding what’s collected in the dehumidifier tanks, Corroon invites you to bottle it up and pour into DAMP TANK. DAMP TANK will initially be placed in Project’s gallery and subsequently be hosted in Project’s foyer, plumbing damp donations through the building. Ongoing donations will be welcomed throughout the year and the resulting volume will be used in the making of an artwork.
Accessibility
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Biographies
Avril Corroon works with moving image, performance, and sculpture to examine precarious living conditions in the city such as the housing crisis. Currently she is working on ‘Got Damp’ a research and development project with TACO Gallery in Thamesmead, exploring qualities of damp housing as both harmful and lively material. She received a BA in Fine Art Media at NCAD in 2014 and a Masters in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University in 2019. Her work has been exhibited and screened at Work in Progress at South London Gallery, Wild Rents at Luna Elaine, Forming a Residency Association at Lux in London (2020), Spoiled Spores curated by Sheena Barrett at The LAB, Dublin (2019), AAAAAAAHHHhh at The Old Operating Theatre (2019), and Fort Sumac at Enclave London (2018), My Brilliant Friend curated by Rayne Booth at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin (2016). She was a 2020 recipient of the Arts Council Next Generation Award and her work is in the Arts Council Collection.
Funding
Project Arts Centre is proud to be supported by the Arts Council Ireland and Dublin City Council.