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Aerial Blue

International Summer School

28- 31st July 2011

Aerial Blue is a themed summer school for contemporary artists. This year’s focus is on islandism and the notion of insularity as a gateway to radical difference. Aerial Blue invites artists from across the world to come to Ireland for four days workshops, collective experimentation and island survivalism.

In evolutionary terms, islands are breeding grounds for hyper-differentiation. Fantasy creatures thrive and multiply that would otherwise perish on the mainland. The margin of an island is also analogous to the position of the artist, at once feasting off the glut of influences and opportunities that wash ashore, and at the same time, wilfully standing in opposition to them. In the context of Ireland, a western sea-surrounded outpost of Europe that has recently endured a dramatic economic collapse, the condition of becoming islanded has become symbolic, and a rallying point for action, questioning ‘what is the land beneath our feet?’. The participants of Aerial Blue are asked, through collective experimentation, to construct ‘an island state of mind’ during an invited residency on a deserted island.

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The summer school will take place on Dorinish, an uninhabited rocky outcrop on the West Coast of Ireland that was formerly owned by John Lennon. After seeing this remote doldrum advertised in a transatlantic in-flight magazine, the iconic singer purchased the island, which soon became home to a commune of music lovers and spiritual experimentalists. The fellows for Aerial Blue will be the sole habitants and caretakers of this island during their residency and will be invited to present workshops, collective actions or propose ideas and concepts for investigation.

Aerial Blue is the second edition of a mobile collective co-directed by Ruth E Lyons and Claire Feeley that began with Mercedes Fire in 2010.

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Participating artists include: Eilis O’ Connell, Nick Miller, David Farrell, Nina Tanis, Michelle Considine and Shoichi Sakurai

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