Waterways Experience

Using the dramatic urban landscape of The Royal Canal at Spencer Dock as a space for actual, artistic and psychological exploration artists Sarah Hurl and Emma Haugh, together with the curator Cleo Fagan, propose site-specific and video work that invite the audience to experience the waterways and, perhaps, contemporary art from a different perspective.

Audience members embark on a solitary boat journey (alone aside from a ‘boatman’) on the Royal Canal beside Convention Centre and up beyond Sheriff street and back, experiencing the perspective of the dramatically changing landscape traveling from the highly developed area beside convention centre to the dramatically different ragged land by the shores of the canal as one passes under the rusty bridge at Sheriff street.

Of Time And Space

21st April, the Royal Canal

As Dublin shall celebrate the forthcoming City of Science in 2012, this project hopes to fuse layers of history, time and space together.

Let's go back in time by the transportation device of a bicycle along the Royal Canal which has witnessed many events throughout time. We will travel from the present age 2012 and reach the 1800’s where Science was critical: The Age of Invention whereby new discoveries and ideas were happening right here in
Ireland by learned thinkers.

We will travel through the 19th Centuries Industrial ruins, which echo a past of labour and Industry to Bleary eyed mystics celebrating doing Time in a Victorian Prison. To empassioned Politicians with visions of a new future and all starting at a zone of Sport and Exellence.