Innovative Art on Show as Trinity’s Creative Challenge Showcase Launches

Posted on: 06 April 2016

Five amazing new art projects will be showcased in Trinity College Dublin over the next month as part of the Trinity Creative Challenge Showcase. 

Kicking off the series with appropriate fanfare will be the new composition of spatial music performed by the Trinity Orchestra live in Trinity’s Front Square this Friday,  April 8th. 

The five art projects have been created by the following artists:

• Enda Bates –newly composed multi-movement for Trinity Orchestra, Cue Saxophone Quartet, Miriam Ingram, and 8-channel loudspeaker array – 7pm, Front Square, Trinity, April 8th, 2016. For more information on the work, entitled From Within, From Without, see here.

• Fiona Hallinan & Kate Strain – ‘Department of Ultimology’, an art research project exploring the evolution and disappearance of forms of knowledge within academic disciplines. Symposium, 10am-3pm, Trinity Long Room Hub, April 14th, 2016.

• Grace Weir’s film ‘A reflection on light’ a film  telling the history of a painting, Let there be Light by Mainie Jellett, which hangs in the School of Physics,  April 14th  & April 15th, 2016.

• Declan Clarke –‘The Hopeless End of a Great Dream’: a film project exploring the social and political heritage of contemporary Ireland through the lens of Trinity. Showing in Trinity on April 20th and Temple Bar Gallery April  21st.

• Pan Pan presents Cascando a deathmatch in the void between radio and poetry, words and music, voices and silence. This installation event features a rarely performed text by Samuel Beckett. April 19th-24th, Samuel Beckett Theatre.

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Trinity Creative Challenge, established by the Provost, is a new arts awards scheme which aims to foster the development of innovative interdisciplinary art projects with Trinity College Dublin.

Five proposals were selected from over 140 applicants to share the award fund of €40,000, which seeks to catalyse the creative and cultural arts in Dublin city and support the development of the creative and cultural industries sector. All five winning applicants  are now presenting these new works in Trinity in April 2016.