Carts orange
donkeys brown
women black.
Tomatoes red
peppers green
melons yellow.
Seas blue
skies indigo
churches purple.
Streets ochre
salt-pans silver
sun-sets gold.
And I, the technicolour of the spectrumed scenes
once danced overdosed in the ecstasy of youth.
Richard England
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Re-PUBLIC OF SOUND AT THE CORK VISION CENTRE
20TH SEPTEMBER Cork 2005: The tenth instalment of the Cork Civic Trust Cork 2005 year long project – Enlargement! – bringing the ‘new’ Europe to Cork –promises to deliver an experience with a difference to visitors to the Cork Vision Centre. Interaction with the environment coupled with recording/re-use of the resulting sounds is the innovative concept at the heart of Maltese artists Vince Briffa and Renzo Spiteri unique exhibition ‘re-PUBLIC’.
With the support of the Embassy of Malta in Dublin, and in co-operation with final year students from Colaiste Stiofain Naomha, Briffa and Spiteri, will create two specific areas within the Vision Centre. The ground floor Physical Area will be divided into spaces that provide different, multi-sensorial possibilities and experiences. This will take the form of a large walk-through installation, with objects capable of creating sound in a variety of ways. Visitors can experience the different sensations of the spaces as well as create sounds through interaction with the objects. Such a space should create an interesting experience for visitors of all ages, including visitors with special needs.
The Centre’s Gallery will become the Virtual Area, housing banks of computers with CD writing capabilities and simple audio software, Having ‘used’ the Physical Area, a visitor can then use the Virtual Area to manipulate his/her and other visitors’ sounds and produce a personal sound piece that can be taken home on CD.
Cork Civic Trust’s John Miller commented. “re-Public will provide visitors with a genuinely different experience, one which they can control through the manipulation and creation of sounds. I am confident it will appeal to a wide range of visitors from students across the educational spectrum, to those involved in music, theatre, art therapy and to the simply curious and those who have little or no experience of computers. It is also innovative in that CSN have taken it on board as a practical project for their final year students, so at all times there will be someone on hand to guide and assist visitors.”
Ambassador of Malta to Ireland, His Excellency, Richard Muscat will unveil a specially commissioned plaque at the opening of Re-PUBLIC which will be officially launched by Dermot Ahern TD, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Opening to the public on Wednesday 5th October, it will run until 28th October 2005
For Further Information: Contact: The Cork Vision Centre
Tel: 353-21-4279925
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