Our title is The Picnic. It is a video piece, 17 minutes and 30 seconds long. We worked with the Thomas St. Youth Group through the South West Inner City Network (SWICN) and the Young Peoples Program in Pearse St. Drugs Rehabilitation Centre.
We originally saw art in context as some sort of collaborative picnic, having seen infinite success stories of the products of art in the community. However, we ourselves found the major difficulties artists can come across when faced with red tape and disinterested collaborators. Theory becomes redundant when the raw materials of art in context are not present, and the ideological picnic becomes a logistic mess. Our initial idea for this piece stemmed from the hours we spent drinking tea waiting for our collaborators to show up.
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