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Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly MOVING DUBLIN

April 23- June 15 2009

Photographs of the opening MOVING DUBLIN exhibition in Broadcast Gallery

photograph from exhibition opening Moving Dublin DIT Portland Row

photograph from exhibition opening Moving Dublin DIT Portland Row

photograph from exhibition opening Moving Dublin DIT Portland Row

photograph from exhibition opening Moving Dublin DIT Portland Row

photograph from exhibition opening Moving Dublin DIT Portland Row

Present in Photographs:
Anne Cleary, Denis Connoly, Brian Fay, Prof. Brian Norton(President of DIT), Eamon Ryan, minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources opened the exhibition

The photographs were taken by Natalia Tysiak a first year student on the BA Fine Art programme in DIT Portland Row


still from moving dublin
Still from Moving Dublin

MOVING DUBLIN is the premiere of a major new work; at once a filmic essay about contemporary Dublin, and a collection of photographs, essays and video works beautifully produced in a new hard cover edition.

For two years Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly moved around Dublin in every way possible : by car, taxi, bus, train, tram, bicycle and on foot. They met scores of Dubliners, and recorded dozens of personal accounts of moving through the city. They amassed a treasure trove of documents: video, photographs, interviews, sounds, stories. The result is Moving Dublin; a road movie, a picture book, and many other things. Above all Moving Dublin is a homage to the city that Lady Morgan once called her dear dirty Dublin.”

“A million everyday journeys course through the veins of Dublin, giving it life (or poisoning it?). These journeys range in scale and rhythm from the incessant flow of motorway traffic through the familiar trundling of a local bus journey right down to an early morning stroll around the block with the dog. This profusion of intersecting paths gives the place its form, carving roads, highways and public spaces. The impact of these journeys transforms lives, changes the face of the city, and resonates on a planetary level." Cleary/Connolly April 2009


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Still from Moving Dublin

Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly both studied architecture in Dublin in the 1980s, before moving to Paris in 1990. After a lengthy collaboration with the French urban theorist Bernard Huet in the early 1990s, they developed a long-lasting interest in the filmed city. From 1999 to 2005 they produced a large-scale multimedia project, The Boulevard, inspired by the urban environment in which they live. Their work has been exhibited worldwide and has received several international awards. In 2006 they created a series of interactive video works, for Limerick City Gallery of Art. This project evolved into Pourquoi pas Toi?, a major solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2008. They were awarded a two year residency by South Dublin County in December 2006, through which Moving Dublin was produced.


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Still from Moving Dublin

MOVING DUBLIN is commissioned under South Dublin County Council's IN CONTEXT 3 Per Cent for Art Programme.

For further information go to Cleary Connolly Website