Aerial Blue
May 2, 2011
Aerial Blue 2011- FOLLOW ON
Aerial Blue:
International Summer School
Revised Dates 28- 31st July 2011
Call for Participation
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.
Details
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.
Application
Aerial Blue will take place for four days from July 28 – July 31 2011 and is open to applications from artists, architects, film-makers, researchers and associated disciplines. Applicants are asked to offer a short statement of interest (approx. 200 words), samples of previous work and CV. It is important that the statement of interest clearly demonstrates an engagement with the theme of the summer school.
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. The deadline for application is 2 June 2011. The school will be held in English although all nationalities are welcome.
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