Switch Project - contemporary artworks being shown around Nenagh Co Tipperary and Bangor Co Down, this November. This Artist led project consists of 8 video works by international artists projected onto the windows of empty shops. This year artists were invited to respond to “The Scale of Things”
“something unexpected, something unlikely; eight artworks inserted into places where they should not be. “ (Fiona Woods http://www.s-w-i-t-c-h.org 2010)
It was a delight to experience SWITCH on a guided tour by the projects curators on a wet November night in Nenagh. The tour began with an introduction to the project and the handing out of the time machines, an integral piece of equipment to the tour. Not only were we treated to eight artworks by international Artists, but our little group was very international with people from; Ireland, North and South, Germany, Holland, England, and Palestine, no mean feet for a small rural town in the middle of Ireland.
Off we set, time machines in hand, to experience not only the physical landscape of Nenagh but eight contemporary artworks located throughout the town. The time machines were of course slide viewers and at the location of each installation we were given slides that either related to the history of Nenagh or previous installations of SWITCH. I can recommend this project without reserve and am looking forward to a second viewing when SWITCH comes to Bangor County Down on 14th November.
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