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The LFTT Library Gets Portable!

April 28, 2014
Fundit Campaign
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In April 2014 The LFTT Library ran a Fundit campaign to raise funds to build a new modular storage/shelving system which could adapt more easily to each new environment. Thanks to overwhelming support the campaign was a success and as a result the library will now live longer and have a wider reach to new audiences. The new build has proven great in protecting the collection in transit, as well as making fantastic modular sculptural material. Thanks to all our wonderful funders for supporting the project, we couldn’t have done it without you.xxx 

Funders: Sofie Loscher, Olwen Coughlan, Bernhard Gaul, Lisa O’Grady, Bernadette Clarke, Jessica Foley, Eleanor Phillips, Helena Tobin, Dylan Hodd, Noeleen Doheny, David Upton, Mary Jo Gilligan, Penelope Collins, Dave Madigan, Vivienne Byrne, Mark Cullen, Eithne Ring, Rory O’Brien, Mark Blamire, Brian Horgan, Tara Prendergast, Sarah Iremonger, Ruth Whelan, Performance Collective, The Infinite Line, Eddie Ryan, Mark McCann, Mary Collins, Highlanes Gallery, EL Putnam, Susan Montgomery, Paul Hayes, Karen Power, Rachel Fallon, Emer Delaney, Emer Lynch, Eilis Lavelle, Anne O’Brien, Paul Timoney, Sarah Honan, The Homework Club, Carmel Hegarty, Sharon Miney, Anja Mahler, John Horgan, Sarah Jayne Booth, Jennie Guy, Patrick Hughes, Fiona Reilly, Michelle Collins, Deirdre Morrissey, Joanne Boyle, Jonathan Mayhew, Unit 1, Sean O Sullivan, Monica Flynn, Padraig Spillane, Cleo Fagan, Dave Garavin, Maria McKinney, Susan MacWilliam, David Collier, Joan Cahalin, Damien Flood, Davey Moor, Fintan Neylan, Journeyman Theatre, Helen Blake, Mick O’Shea, Liam Lavery, Maeve Connolly, Danny Mc Carthy, Monster Truck Gallery and Studios, Tom Ryan, Katherine Atkinson, Aoife O’Dwyer, Maximilian Le Cain, Carolyn Collier, Grainne Tynan, Mark Ewart, Straink, Alan Killian, Jeanne Elliott, Conal McGovern, Jacinta Lynch, Mark Joyce, jessica grehan, Stan Erraught, Maria Tanner, Mary Ruth Walsh, Roseanne Lynch, Helle Helsner, Teresa Gillespie, Vanessa Daws, Caroline Doolin, Stephen Morris, David Monahan, Jenny Papassotiriou, Ormston House.

Things in Translation: The Legs Foundation Exhibition

August 25, 2013
Archiving, Drogheda Arts Festival, Events, Highlanes Gallery, Installation, Works
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'Give me a place to stand, with a lever long enough and I can move the earth' Meadhbh O'Connor (FRONT); 'Merging Point' Vivienne Byrne (BACK); 'The Hunt' Aine Ivers (LEFT) 'Only The World Remains' Aoife Desmond (RIGHT)
‘Give me a place to stand, with a lever long enough and I can move the earth’ Meadhbh O’Connor (FRONT); ‘Merging Point’ Vivienne Byrne (BACK); ‘The Hunt’ Aine Ivers (LEFT) ‘Only The World Remains’ Aoife Desmond (RIGHT)
'Give me a place to stand, with a lever long enough and I can move the earth' (foreground) 'Evergreen (radio mast)' (on wall) Meadhbh O'Connor (2013)
‘Give me a place to stand, with a lever long enough and I can move the earth’ (foreground) ‘Evergreen (radio mast)’ (on wall) Meadhbh O’Connor (2013)
'The Hunt' Aine Ivers (2013)
‘The Hunt’ Aine Ivers (2013)
'The Hunt' Aine Ivers (2013)
‘The Hunt’ Aine Ivers (2013)
'The Hunt' Aine Ivers (FRONT); 'Where Are The Dead' Susan Macwilliam; 'The LFTT Library'; 'Elsies Counter' Jessica Foley; 'Hermes Alive!' Helen Horgan (BACK - L to R)
‘The Hunt’ Aine Ivers (FRONT); ‘Where Are The Dead’ Susan Macwilliam; ‘The LFTT Library’; ‘Elsies Counter’ Jessica Foley; ‘Hermes Alive!’ Helen Horgan (BACK – L to R)
'Only The World Remains' Aoife Desmond (2013)
‘Only The World Remains’ Aoife Desmond (2013)
'Where are The Dead' Susan MacWilliam (2013)
‘Where are The Dead’ Susan MacWilliam (2013)
'Where Are The Dead' Susan MacWilliam (2013)
‘Where Are The Dead’ Susan MacWilliam (2013)
'Where Are The Dead' Susan MacWilliam (2013)
‘Where Are The Dead’ Susan MacWilliam (2013)
'Inside Out' Vivienne Byrne (2013)
‘Inside Out’ Vivienne Byrne (2013)
FOREGROUND OF LIBRARY: 'Elsies Counter' Jessica Foley (2013)
FOREGROUND OF LIBRARY: ‘Elsies Counter’ Jessica Foley (2013)
(L-R) The LFTT Library; 'Elsies Counter' Jessica Foley (2013); 'Hermes Alive!' Helen Horgan (2013)
(L-R) The LFTT Library; ‘Elsies Counter’ Jessica Foley (2013); ‘Hermes Alive!’ Helen Horgan (2013)
'Hermes Alive!' (2013)
‘Hermes Alive!’ (2013)
'Unreadymade' Danyel Ferrari (2013)
‘Unreadymade’ Danyel Ferrari (2013)
'Unreadymade' Danyel Ferrari (2013)
‘Unreadymade’ Danyel Ferrari (2013)

Katherine Atkinson Performs at Highlanes Gallery (2013)

August 21, 2013
Highlanes Gallery, Performance
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Katherine Atkinson performs on the altar of Highlanes Gallery in response to the exhibition ‘Things in Translation: The Legs Foundation’ (2013)

In August 2013 violinist and performance artist Katherine Atkinson was  invited to respond to The LFTT exhibition Things In Translation: The Legs Foundation at Highlanes Gallery. She decided to stem her performance quite literally from the individual works themselves, enacting an intimate one-one-one engagement with the textures and forms they evoked. It was quite ‘spellbinding’!

Katherine’s work is inspired by physical theatre, using strong visual images as part of the performance. When performing the violin becomes an extension of her physical self, another part of her body as well as an extension of her voice. Inspired by physical theatre, Atkinson uses strong visual images as part of her performance, often responding to specific architectures and environments in an exploration of the boundaries between public and private space.

Katherine says of her practice “I am interested in testing performance concepts in public spaces. I am fascinated by the ways in which audiences respond to public performances, and I have researched this in both my performance work and through academic research.

The encountering of visceral experiences through the physical, sensory and emotional archaeology of an edifice is an inspiring premise. I am interested in looking at the envelope of a building, thinking about the site, ruminating over its purpose, imagining who’s been there before, and sensing who’s there now. It is fascinating to contemplate how a space may change over time, or even in a moment. Wrapped within a site, it is exciting to imagine how the space could be transformed through music and movement by responding to surfaces and textures, floors and ceilings, nooks and corners, light, dark and all shades in between, constructing a physical audio-active foundation for the building.” Read More

Highlanes Gallery 2012

September 20, 2012
Highlanes Gallery, Installation, Residency
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P1040908The Legs Foundation for the Translation of Things (LFTT Library) 21 September – 7 November 2012, The Irish Cement Room Opening, Culture Night, Friday 21 September at 7.00pm In September 2012, The LFTT Library spent six weeks on residence in Highlanes Gallery Drogheda. Highlanes director Aoife Ruane had come across the Library during the summer at The Drogheda Arts Festival (see related posts) and was excited to see how it would work in the historic site of Highlanes Gallery. Also of interest was the parallel relationships of The LFTT Library collection and the Drogheda Municipal Collection which is housed at Highlanes Gallery.

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The Alternative Life Drawing Workshop held by Sally Timmons of Commonplace Studios. (2012) with Edel Robinson

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Broadstone Studios Dublin: Editors Meetings

July 22, 2011
Archiving, Broadstone Studios, Categorisation, Events, Installation, Performance, Residency
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10.BROADSTONEJuly 13 2011. I’m really delighted with all the work we got done this evening and a
really great start to the project. Many thanks to all who attended.
For those that weren’t able to make it we have started to devise
idiosyncratic categories of division for the library such as “gravity
defying” “obnoxiously dogmatic” and “on singing”. We have 25
categories to date and feel free to suggest more, we have app5000
books in all so up to 100 categories would be feasible.

Categories so far; 1. Beautiful Illustrations. 1a. Books with Decorative panels. 2. Dedications. 3. Books with remarkable foreign objects inside them. 4. Door-stoppers. 5. Inheritance Books. (Empty) 6. Happy Books. (Empty) 7. Dogmatically Offensive Books. (one book) 8. The Sublime. 9. Exotic Places. 10. Books We Like The Colours Of. 11. Hideous Books. (Empty) 12. Books about Singing. 13. Anti-gravity Books. 14. Adventure Books. 15. Books On Arguing. 16. Poetry. 17. Literature. 18. Important Men. 19. Art and Architecture. 20. About Translation. 21. Sex. 21a. Catholic Marriage. 22. Smelly Books. (Empty) 23. Ireland. 24. History. 25. The Fransicans. 26. Books With Great Covers. 27. Nature 28. Politics & Economics 29. Saints 30. Rejects 31. Science 32. Boring Religious Books 33. Window Books

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