On Sight
Artist(s): Cleary+Connolly (Anne Cleary & Denise Connolly)
Location: Lough Lannagh, Castlebar
Title: On Sight - LANDMARK Public Art Programme
Medium: Film, installation
Date: April 2012
Materials: film, stainless steel
Dimensions: approx 5\' tall
Series of special, discreet viewing posts, the type usually seen on seafront promenades, positioned in four locations. Instead of being presented with a magnified view of the scene in front of you, as you would expect, the artists have developed a project which challenges our stereo vision.
Paris based Cleary + Connolly, former AIB prize winners, proposed a controversial and unusual application for one of the permanent LANDMARK commissions. They created special, discreet viewing posts, the type usually seen on seafront promenades, positioned in four locations. Instead of being presented with a magnified view of the scene in front of you, as you would expect, the artists have developed a project which challenges our stereo vision.
Two films of the view are presented, one for each eye, but depicting different activities within the scenes, times of day, or different seasons. They have worked closely with the Perceptive Science Laboratory at CNRS Paris and CLARITY, Centre of Sensory Web technologies, in Dublin to develop the technology, which represents a highly contemporary example of a successful arts and science collaboration.
Local children via a school and youth group worked closely with the artists to devise and then film scenes for the locations which are shown on a continuous loop in the installations.
You can visit the Connolly Cleary website here.
The Landmark public art programme was launched in April 2012. Percent for Art funds were carefully pooled to create a collection of commissions for a wide range of artists working in a number of art forms. Key to the thinking behind the programme was a desire to strategically commission works that would complement each other in the same environment, add value to each project and attract artists working at all levels, from emerging to well established. For more information go the project website here.