Projector Collective - RADIANT CITY

This project opened to the public on Saturdays from 7th - 21st February 2009

The works in edition that are a result of the Project - Radiant City - are available to view or purchase by contacting CPP [commonplaceprojects@gmail.com]. A catalogue [pdf] illustrating editioned artworks that are a result of previous Commonplace Projects [listed below] is also available.

The Radiant City, an installation by Projector Collective at Commonplace, Dublin, borrows it’s title from a book by the French architect Le Corbusier. Projector Collective are interested in the idealism of Le Corbusier’s book and the optimism of his theories. In absorbing these ideas and viewing them through the contemporary urban environment, the Collective have sought to respond to locations where these ideas might once again be relevant. While focusing on examples of decommissioned buildings in the Dublin inner city the Collective were taken by the closing-off of function of what Le Corbusier himself referred to as ‘machines for living’. These shuttered and fenced houses carry a new skin that temporarily excludes them from use - they exist in a sort of dream state, sleeping buildings waiting for re-use.

The artists have used found elements from these buildings that form a barrier on or around their structure; shutters and fencing - objects that have been put in place to guard and protect them for a future purpose. These elements have been transformed and a given a new function situated in a new space and become talismanic emblems of the transitory state of these houses. Pure gold has been used as a material in this transformation and makes physical an aspect of Le Corbusier’s idea of Radiance.

Since 2008 Projector Collective have also been working on a project with Via Artists Group and Dublin City Council Arts Office to interact directly with a specific location in Dublin’s historical North Inner City - St. Agatha’s Terrace. The Radiant City offered a prologue or pre-meditation on some of the ideas that were further explored in project titled Bright Shadow.

http://www.viaart.org
One of the objectives of CPP is to promote the idea of editionable artworks and Projector Collective has responded on this occasion by producing a series of embossed prints in an edition of ten.

www.projectorcollective.org

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