How Do We Start?

You will find a constant hum of Nature in these pages. They were once a tree, after all!

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Project Arts Centre is delighted to announce the release of How Do We Start?

Following the success of last year's BAE (big art energy) , this limited edition publication is designed by Bureau Bonanza and is edited by Maeve Stone & Cian O'Brien , who asked contributors a deceptively simple question in relation to art which challenges and connects in the time of the climate crisis: How Do We Start?

We've drawn an imaginary starting line, an invitation for you to join that conversation if you want to, and a place for those ideas to combine and quicken. It has been a joy to connect with these five exceptional artists and see their creativity reveal the possibilities for us in this act of beginning.

In the work of Kasia Kaminska you will find a set of instructions for how to wander through urban spaces with a new eye for Nature, to collect and collaborate with weeds, and make anthotype prints inside the Gild Project.

A meditation from the midlands arrives with new work from Shanna May Breen and Luke Casserly , whose poetry and photography reflect their earliest relationship to nature and landscape, locked in memory of bog.

Memory, too, leads us to the starting line in Kaajal Modi's beautiful exploration of fermentation as a cultural (and culinary) process, looking back at the lines of land, food and colonial control in order to find our way forward.

Finally, a new alphabet is sprouting in the pages that hold Katie Holten's seeds for the future. There's a political bite in her reflections, no time to waste in starting, and a need to reimagine our value systems. Linking all four are offers of new language to challenge the ones we've grown broken with. The language of trees, of bog, of food and seed.

The simplest solution for how we can all start responding to the climate emergency, is to return to our beautiful beginnings.

Breathe. Reconnect with your deep roots. Get in the sea. Breathe. Lie on the Limestone. Learn. Breathe.

These gentle reconnections offer strength to begin making bolder choices, and build stronger voices to call for climate action from our politicians, our communities and ourselves.

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How Do We Start? is the first step in a long-term relationship between Maeve Stone & Project Arts Centre . Through her practice as an artist, activist and curator Maeve will work with us on a creative journey as Project begins to explore how we can approach a more sustainable way of existing in the world and how we can support artists to lead the way; collaborating and bringing their dynamic skills to bear on a problem we cannot avoid.

Project Arts Centre is proud to be supported by the Arts Council Ireland and Dublin City Council.

Oct/Nov/Dec

Performance

Edited by Maeve Stone & Cian O'Brien