Colossus

Through a series of workshops, participants will work across augmented reality, 3D scanning, theatre, and voice over performance in order to create colossal digital sculptures which exist in augmented reality. A script, devised with theatre maker Shaun Dunne and developed separately with adults from the area who have lost a loved one to suicide, will be recorded by the participants to accompany these sculptures as audio.

These co-created artworks will be positioned back within the community in a series of digital sculptures dispersed across the local area which will be viewable through augmented reality on mobile devices. Audiences will be invited to explore a full suite of interconnected digital sculptures which hold narrative and activate the local area.

John is working with students from Collinstown  Community School, Crosscare, and St. Kevins Community School. The project takes place largely in the North Clondalkin Library.

John Conway Biography

John Conway is one of Ireland’s foremost socially engaged visual artists. His work is characterised by innovative multi-disciplinary projects produced in response to sensitive and challenging community contexts.

His work occurs across art forms including sculpture, installation, moving image, audio, theatre, virtual reality, publication, and curation. His prolific working process is characterized by experimentation with sculptural and artistic forms, acute listening, sensitivity to context and a robust interrogation of artistic processes across collaborative contextual work and formalised gallery output.

www.johnconway.ie

Elaine Hoey Biography

Elaine Hoey works mainly creating interactive-based installations, appropriating contemporary digital art practices and aesthetics to explore the politics of digital humanity and our evolving relationship with the screen. She describes her process as ‘experimental,’ and is interested in exploring digitally native and new forms of art. Her work often addresses and critiques themes arising from identity, place, and the biopolitical body. She works through a wide variety of mediums such as virtual reality, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, programming, video, installation, and live remote cyber performance.

Shaun Dunne Biography

Shaun (he/him) is a Dublin-based theatre and film artist who merges testimony and documentary material with new writing. He works extensively across film and theatre. He was the Arts Council’s Next Generation Film Artist for 2020 and is currently developing new feature-length narrative concepts with support from Screen Ireland. Experimental work includes The First was a Boy, Iarscoláire (Past Pupil) and Dúirt Tú (You Said), all of which were awarded top prizes at premiere Irish Film festivals including Cork International Film Festival and Dublin International Film Festival. Recent narrative shorts include Red Lake (Pull the Trigger) and Tar Anseo (One Two One Two).

In 2022, Shaun presented his debut documentary feature at Dublin International Film Festival. Adapted from his theatre show Rapids, HOW TO TELL A SECRET was made in collaboration with Anna Rodgers and Invisible Thread Films. It was awarded Best Documentary at Irish Film London and has screened at festivals around the world since its debut. The film was nominated for Best Documentary at the Irish Film and Television Awards in 2023 and has since been acquired by Netflix.

In theatre, Shaun has toured extensively across Ireland and is best known for his unique hybrid of documentary material with new writing and inspired fiction. Works of note include the multi-award winning Making a Mark, Restoration, The Wasteground Party, Rapids, Death of the Tradesmen, as well as his recent premiere of This Solution at Dublin Theatre Festival, 2023.

He is currently developing new theatre live-work for Rough Magic, Brokentalkers, Access All Areas and OneTwoOneTwo.

A trained facilitator, Shaun has been the engagement and participation artist in residence at The Ark for the past seven years. Here, he works with responsibility to the Children’s Council; a steering voice of 40 young people who contribute to decision making at the Ark.