Live Collision International Festival presents....
Art Installation in Project Foyer by Harun Morrison. Presented by Live Collision International Festival 2024.
The Smiling Sea Star / Starfish takes after Anne Lund’s anti-nuclear icon, The Smiling Sun (1975). The Smiling Starfish, uses the same expression and colour of the sun, but the starfish and blue point to its use for coastal and marine protest. The varying texts accompanying the Smiling Starfish include: ‘Raw Sewage? No Thanks’, ‘Deep Sea Mining? No Thanks’ and ‘More Plastic? No Thanks’. The Smiling Sea Star / Starfish has been developed in the context of an artist placement with Greenpeace UK and exhibitions addressing coastal environmental politics at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea and Newlyn Gallery & The Exchange on the Penzance Coast in Cornwall. There are around 1,600 different species of starfish / sea stars living in the world’s oceans, where they occupy every type of habitat including tidal pools, rocky shores, sea grass, kelp beds and coral reefs.
The Smiling Sea Star / Starfish after The Smiling Sun will be in situ at Project Arts Centre from Thurs 25th April – the morning of Sat 27th April upon which the large-scale visual artwork will be carried by members of the public from Project Arts Centre, and ceremoniously walked along the River Liffey and towards the Irish Sea followed by workshop at the Substation, Dublin Port Authority, Alexandra Road where the artwork will be erected. This event will be followed by a workshop titled Environmental Justice Questions Workshop led by artist Harun Morrison.
Accessibility
Live Collision is committed to creating safe spaces for our audience to access the festival with ease and comfort. With this in mind, we welcome audience members who wish to remain masked during events.
At the request of the Artists, we will be hosting two masked events to create an accessible space for those who are immunocompromised. However, we understand that some people cannot wear masks for a variety of reasons and we want to assure our audience that this will not affect your ability to attend any of our events. Masks will be available at the festival free of charge.
These events include:
LAKE BURST – The Bureau of Speculative Archaeology Thursday 25th at 7pm / The Bureau of Speculative Archaeology Friday 26th at 1pm and BLACKMAGICRAWR on Friday 26th April at 7pm.
Other accessible events will include:
An ISL interpreted performance of BLACKMAGICRAWR on Friday 26th April at 7pm (concession tickets available) and live captioning of Vitoria : Buraco on Friday 26th April at 9pm (concession tickets also available).
We look forward to welcoming you to Live Collision International Festival 2024!
If you require assistance for your visit, please do not hesitate to contact us at access@projectartscentre.ie or call 01 8819 613. You can find the latest information about Project’s accessibility here.
Funding
Live Collision is funded by The Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Council Arts Office.