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Paula, you always take great pics, but some of these go beyond that. Especially the first lot, the sun, the red-lit room, the cat (?), the rock garden.
The debate will continue as to whether or not this was an appropriate venue for this artistic experiment but obviously some residents think it was.
Art & Culture is for the many, not the few.
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great pictures and great Emerson quote!
kp
Agree with the krossie fellow, nice quote:
Being for stuff, as simply being opposed to stuff and getting on with doing it, as opposed to talking about it...
a little of that talking and action was discussed earlier here: (Whatever Happened to Anti-Capitalism? : http://indymedia.ie/article/80676 )
Anyway, this Ballymun project makes me remember the pallas heights project in dublin 1, the aul monto. Whatever came of that? still up or pulled down? their studio was on foley st, and the gallery was in the top flats of sean tracey house. (art systems occupying derelict space in dublin city : http://www.indymedia.ie/article/72077 )
By the way, now we are on this point where art meets space meets political systems meets healthier used spaces, how are seomra spraoi doing, the dublin social centre, how is the city arts centre, are there any more new art/radical/used spaces opening up....
(Seomra Spraoi collective invites you to a night of play, art, discussion, film, food, disco : http://www.indymedia.ie/article/71888 )
Ive been living in Barcelona for the last while where there is new occupations nearly every week, along with a load of evictions. its a continous game of reclaiming and recycling space to make more vibrant and used, as opposed to unused and dangerous. These spaces dont normally seek permission to be, instead the spaces are taken and created for as long as possible. In many cases this can be years, and in this time some "art" projects happen, if thats what some choose to call them. Anyway stuff on that: ( IMC-BCN, speculation and squatting section: http://barcelona.indymedia.org/?category=especulacio ) and our own part in that story, CSOAm El barco ( website: http://wikihost.org/wikis/casas_bcn/wiki/el_barco + IMC-IE coverage: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79776 )
So from that...
there could be a lot more though:
if more of the different groups peeked out of their ghettos and hooked up with others from their ghettos, which i suppose is whats happening now in ballymun...
dialogue is happening, new ways and ideas are being seen, more dialogue and stuff can happen...no matter who it is that participates.
From that there might actually be a more participative architectural, planning, social system: ie: people dictate what goes on: bottom up, not top down. I think we are getting there though..
Slan from a durty day in Barcelona
Pallas heights: a precedent for the hotel ballymun, could be a lot more though
this is the greatest load of crap ive ever looked at. class voyerisim at it s worst. wheres the heads shooting up ? ? where s the drunks, burnt cars and the REAL ballymun i know??
shitbags..
There's lots of different experiences of living in Ballymun, much of it negative due to local government's neglect and the national Government's complicity. Yep there's burnt out cars, poverty, hurt, despair, unemployment and drugs to name but a few. But there's also hope, community fighting for change and their demand for equality, respect and dignity. Art has a role to play in all of this. Art in the community is different to art in an exclusive Art gallery that's a high Church of good taste and refined middle class notions. Take it out of that space and all the rules melt away. Here art is turned upside down how it's created who's involved and all the possibilities which could never be explored in the old days.
Money spent on art is a good thing. We want bread and roses, music, poetry, love, laughter, joy. Art can offer glimpses of what we could be and what our world could be depending on how it is engaged with.
Is it a good thing that the Hotel Ballymun happened? I would argue an emphatic yes. It exposed that the reality that was Ballymun for many never had to be like that. The never should have been a wholescale community wide marginalisation. Government policy determined the fate, very tragically in Ballymun. A fraction of the money spent on the regeneration of Ballymun was put into art. |If peoples expectations are raised, their hopes and aspirations for a better life are articulated, validated and legitimised, then it is worth it for that alone.
There is no one Ballymun, but there is one Government policy and a media bias. Hotel Ballymun turned our living spaces into something far greater. Our places of abode could be places where we just don't eat sleep shit and watch TV. Hotel Ballymun offered hope and optimism.