Brian Duggan, O'Machine, O' Machine The Measure, Digital Film Still, 2011
Fingal Commissioned artist Brian Duggan will show his project O'Machine O'Machine at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork from the 21st to the 27th of January further details on the screening and the National Sculpture Factory can be found here http://nationalsculpturefactory.com/?page_id=2057
O'MACHINE O'MACHINE is the resolution of a per cent for art commission for Fingal County Council. Artist Brian Duggan created a two part project, the first part,a 96 page pocket publication of new fiction, titled 'Three thousand and nine', which features new work by selected Fingal writers, the artist, and includes an afterword by the director of the CCA, Glasgow, Francis McKee. The second part is a digital film 'the Measure'. For this film, Duggan has mapped a curious journey through Fingal, citing E.M. Forster`s 1909 short novella ‘The Machine Stops’ as a guiding text to develop a way of re-looking and re-thinking the landscape and the physical changes that have occurred in the county.The Measure was launched in May 2011 in the Sillogue Water Tower, located on the M50, this building and the desolate landscape in which it sit feature in the film, it was also screened for a week long period at Driaocht, Blanchardstown,and included a special event with Francis McKee in conversation with the artist.
For further information on the project please contact
Caroline Cowley, Public Art Co-ordinator, E:caroline.cowley@fingalcoco.ie. Ph: 01 8708449.
