We would like to invite you the launch of FROM CONTEXT TO EXHIBITION at the LAB, Foley Street, D1 on Thursday 23rd April at 6pm. The exhibition will be launched on Thurs 23rd April by Peggy Shaw, New York based international performance artist and co-founder of UK based performance company Split Britches. The exhibition will run from 23rd - 30th April inclusive. Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, will host a series of talks, supported by The LAB, to accompany the exhibition of work that arts students from National College of Art and Design, Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Art Design and Technology and Tisch School of Performing Arts, New York University have created with communities of place and/or interest. The student artists have worked with the following groups Aisling Project, Ashton Pound, Dogs in Distress and Finglas Dogs Aid Sanctuary, Coolmine Female Residential Group, Coolmine Male Residential Group, Coolmine Welcome Programme, Dublin Aids Alliance, Dublin Bus (number 53 bus at 8.29am & 9.30am), Dublin Multi Cultural Resource Centre, Exchange House, Irish Wheelchair Association - Dominos Club, An elected Knitting Group, the Larkin Centre, Postcard Community Leonards Corner South Circular Rd, South West Inner City Community Network and Vista. This event is a cross disciplinary event consisting of both on and off-site work and is the showcase for the Learning Development Placement Programme managed by Create on behalf of the four colleges. To find out more about the programme visit - http://www.create-ireland.ie/learning-development/placement-programmes.html http://ldprogramme2009.blogspot.com/ The week long series of events, From Context to Exhibition – will explore some of the critical questions behind artists working collaboratively with communities to co-author work, and to question the politics of translating the work from the context of production (the community) to a formal arts space (the gallery). The events will all take place at The LAB, Dublin City Council gallery. Speakers include artists Faisal Abdul Allah, Peggy Shaw, Milena Dragicevic Šešic, a cultural policy advisor to the Minister for the Arts, Republic of Serbia and curator, artist, and writer Paul O’Neill. For further information contact Lynnette Moran research@create-ireland.ie We look forward to seeing you there. Kind Regards Learning Development Placement Programme 2009