The Liffey Quays -- a ribbon of green: Fergal McCarthy at TEDxDublin

Описание: TEDxDublin was hosted by Science Gallery at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on September 8th, 2012. http://www.TEDxDublin.com

Fergal McCarthy is a 39 year old visual artist based in Dublin. Originally a painter in recent years he has become known for his large scale, public art projects on the Liffey. In September 2010, Liffeytown, an installation of floating Monopoly houses was moored on the river for two weeks. Wholly unplanned, the intervention coincided with the arrival of the IMF in Dublin. Photographs of the project soon appeared across the international media as a symbol of Ireland's economic crisis. In 2011 he lived on the Liffey in a self constructed desert island for a week. No Man's Land mirrored the country's new found economic isolation and questioned the ongoing neglect of the river. Also in 2011 his film The Swimmer, was commissioned by the Science Gallery in Trinity College. The artist has had an enduring fascination with the original 1968 film starring Burt Lancaster. He set out to transplant the film's premise to a Dublin context by swimming across the city. This September he completes his Liffey trilogy with Word River, a 2km long text based intervention located on the quay walls of the Liffey.

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