Killiney Hill
Intentional Community, Saturday 18 August 2007
Mongrel Foundation (Karl Burke, Gillian Kane, Gavin Murphy, Rhona Byrne, Mark Garry) with Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Myles Claffey, Suki Chan, and invited guests
Killiney Hill, Killiney, Co. Dublin
Curated by Gavin Murphy
An intentional community is a planned residential community with a much higher degree of social interaction than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political or spiritual vision and share responsibilities and resources.
Mongrel Foundation is a visual art collective based in Dublin, Ireland. Five core members collaborating with other artists, filmmakers, graphic designers and musicians. Mongrel Foundation was founded as a means to investigate how a number of artists with differing methodologies approach a set of preconditions collectively.
'As a part of House Projects [Intentional Community] was an exhibition of contemporary artworks, aimed primarily at an interested, informed audience made up largely of artists, curators and art writers, who specifically visit contemporary art spaces. The idea being that [...] much contemporary discourse in art can and maybe should only be readable by a specialized audience made up from within its own field before wider dissemination occurs, and the same can be said of the artworks that are the product of and reason for this discourse. Intentional Community in this case is a metaphor for that audience.'
Intentional Community featured the Dublin-based art collective Mongrel Foundation with guest artists Suki Chan and Nina Canell & Robin Watkins. It featured an array of artworks - normally only found in the contemporary gallery - transported into a social space: Killiney Hill, a popular walking spot in South County Dublin. The traditional gallery opening was replaced here by a picnic where visitors were encouraged to bring food and interact within the exhibiting space during a music performance by Canell and Watkins. It was set up, staged and dismantled in one day and was filmed by Myles Claffey.
Intentional Community is supported by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.
www.mongrelfoundation.com
www.canellwatkins.org
www.sukichan.co.uk
