Welcome to Professional Navigating the Commons Radio Documentary Create News Development Course for Artists This is the fifth edition of Working in Create in partnership with artist Patricia Baker. Sept Create Create News. Create News Healthcare is published twice a year in Settings Navigating the Commons is an audio journey that illustrates the beauty and 5 2008 News March and September. It is This course programme is importance of two of Ireland’s inland waterways. sent free of charge, features designed by Create, The a guest writer and offers the This journey will have two phases, one route along the Lower Bann to Lough Adelaide and Meath latest information on Create Hospital, incorporating the Neagh and the other along the Shannon from Portumna to Athlone. Through events and services. 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ireland.ie WWW.BENNISDESIGN.IE Guinness bottle. Photography: Justin Farrelly forgotten past, a vulnerable present. and they don’t necessarily have the same response to its 1 Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Lives shortlived - a hidden world exist- past. They don’t necessarily have the same easy routes out Times, Living in an Age of ing behind Georgian facades and of their place - people who sometimes in spite of long jour- Uncertainty, Polity Press, 2007. Chapter 4 Out of Touch Together Beyond 1 Dublin’s grand wide streets. neys to here are ‘doomed to stay local’. Patterns of pp 75. Bauman compares the movement, people in transit into and within these parts of upper tier of society – connected On Railway Street we stand in front of a the city are of major interest for this project. Multiple geog- to a global network of exchange derelict flat complex. This was very and communication with the raphies of unevenness within these streets, heavily the surface possibly No 56 where Bridget Morrissey lower tier who are ‘doomed to stay surveilled, its people trapped within the architectural local”. For them ‘it is inside the – the landlady and three female tenants Clíodhna Shaffrey interviews Tadhg O'Keefe, framing and its invisible boundaries – a covert language is city they inhabit that the battle for lived. The landlady’s name is an inven- Associate Professor, School Of Archaeology, UCD acquired. survival and a decent place in the tion of Tadhg’s, “something recorded in world is launched, waged and subconsciousness and maybe there was So what about the present day, what are you after? Tadhg sometimes won, but mostly lost. “Façadism – but we are going in” says Tadhg O’ Keefe, archaeologist such a person.” Thom’s directory points to an upstairs bedroom window full of prize tro- 2 Walter Benjamin, The records a landlady and three female phies. “We can begin with autobiographies. People display Arcades Project (Howard Eiland and practitioner on a unique experimental archaeological project, tenants. One of the objectives is to what they want others to see and this is where we can begin, and Kevin McLaughlin trans, 1999 ed) [trans of: Das Passagen- Placing Voices, Voicing Places, that partners UCD School of retrace the original plots, to recon- the stories they want to tell.” Highly sensitive to the other’s Werk] pp. 257 struct the street through drawings position, he speaks of ‘agency’ and he acknowledges the 3 Archaeology, UCD School of Sociology, UCD School of Cultural made from clues – primary and second- need for equalities of exchange. No 14 -17 Moore Street has been placed on Record of ary sources. Policy, Dublin City Council, Office Critical of an emphasis within cur- Protected Structures by Dublin City Council in December 2005 for Integration, Create, and the rent heritage policy that focuses on a and have been designated limited nationalistic agenda, privi- National Monuments. No 16 commissioned artists Ursula Rani leging middleclass perspectives – owned by Plunkett (registered in Thom’s Directory of 1911), “Our National Heritage” – who is our, Sarma and Sean Lynch to explore was a site of surrender in 1916 what is national? “A new pluralistic 4 the landscapes of working class language is urgently required to widen Ed Soja, Thirdspace, Journeys to Los Angeles and other real-and- the terrain. Drop the Our, drop the and immigrant communities of imagined places. Blackwell National, Heritages not Heritage.” Publishing, USA, 1996. Chapter Dublin’s inner city – Clanbrassil The monuments, the great architec- 2, The Trailectics of Spatiality, pp tural moments in the city preserved, 65. Alphe is the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. Street and the Monto from the while all else around is lost, easily mid 19th Century through the erased, ‘threatened to disappear irre- trievably’2, as Walter Benjamin 20th Century and into the present. writes. His example of Moore Street presents a case in point, where No 16

Lower Clanbrassil Street of old Lower Clanbrassil Street today has been designated a National Monument,3 while what really matters here, the markets and street trading are susceptible to disappearance by grad- It is a ‘unique’ approach to archaeology in this country, emphasising Standing in front of the derelict flats, ual dilution through speculative development. “This is creative methods that combine social science, humanities, collabora- Tadhg proposes a chalk drawing to out- where archaeology must go to work.” His position is both tive arts practices and local knowledge in revisiting these territories - line the shape of No 56 – two storeys Placing Voices Voicing Places is political and poetic. A radical approach that moves funded by the Heritage Council. It the oft neglected histories of overlooked minorities and the poor. In over a basement. The tracing re-imag- beyond aesthetics and power and focuses on the ordinary is a joint initiative between its focus on lived space, that includes both the physical and social ele- ines an absent presence. Standing uses and practices of everyday life. Like Henri Lefebvre Create, UCD School of ments, archaeology is dependent here on more than the physical there with Tadhg, momentarily, a pic- Archaeology, UCD School of and his follower Ed Soja, Tadhg O’ Keefe stresses the ‘limit- remains, of which in these parts of the city there are only fragments – ture begins to permeate – an invented Sociology and UCD School of edless expandable scope of spatial imagination’ - the Cultural Policy and Dublin City a street kerb, the façade of the Scot’s Church, the width of a lane, a scene of the noisy sad street, of Mrs simultaneity of the real and imagined – ‘where social space Council, Office for Integration. patch of cobble stones, a rusty iron drainpipe, the hoarded up Bridget Morrissey and her three young is envisioned as Aleph’. 4 entrance to a Magdalene laundry, faded graffiti. female tenants. The past activated is All photography: Justin Farrelly injected into the present. Later on our Uncovering out of residual material, real and tangential - shards of Special thanks to: Raphael Siev, walk moving through Sean McDermott physical evidence, stories, maps, the census of 1911, Thom’s Dublin curator Irish-Jewish Museum, Street towards O Connell Street, Tadhg Walworth Road, Dublin 8 for use Street Directories, conversations with residents, local knowledge, Junction Lower Clanbrassil St and South Circular Road questions his proposal to trace the of archive and artefacts from the memoirs, literature, the Folklore Archive - and through a process of Museum house, how might the current residents close scrutiny, cross analysis and comparison of the vagrant facts - respond? There are ethical implica- some sense of place, of its people might begin to unfold. Histories tions. It is easy, he suggests, to go into a here are beyond visible boundaries and existing local knowledge, place and trawl through it and seek its they are lost to time. To go beyond the surface, to cross these invisible past into the present and leave. For the thresholds, to find a way through part of the complex layers that com- people who live here, this is their home pose place, this is the task of the project. To represent creatively a Lower Clanbrassil Street today