Melancholy Park
Melancholy Park attempts to personify the Ranelagh Gardens in Dublin city. Giving the gardens a personality opens a system of communication that is often denied to places that are a little forgotten.
Listening to the park initiates a process that results in being able to respond to this forgotten place. For the purposes of this project I have photographed the gardens and created a postcard so that participants who listened to the text had a chance to write to the park, resulting in an abstract dialog between individual and place.
Melancholy Park Video
Project Text
Melancholy Park was commissioned by independent curator Cleo Fagan for an exhibition entitled [pause] on behalf of the Ranelagh Arts Festival 2010.
Other participants in [pause] included:
Michelle Browne
Anne Hendick
Sarah Hurl
Beth O'Halloran
James O'Haodha
The Ranelagh Arts Festival took place between September 24th and October 3rd 2010. For more information visit: http://www.ranelagharts.org/.
Entering Melancholy Park