O'Donnell, Aislinn
(2015)
Studio 468.
The Common Ground.
Abstract
Why have a studio in the middle of a community centre in Rialto? What could such a space possibly
offer given the pressing everyday needs of many of the people who enter St Andrew’s? Such a
venture might seem anomalous to those unaccustomed to having studios within working
environments. Is it decorative? A diversion? An indulgence? Irrelevant? Or perhaps a quaint and
patronising Victorian attempt at edification of the masses? The conjunction and association of those
two words ‘art’ and ‘community’ unfortunately risks sanctioning the persistence of a tacit hierarchy
between ‘proper’ art and that other kind of art that seeks to promote the common good or to
emancipate, which thus serves another agenda. This is in part because the word ‘community’ is
coded so that it doesn’t really mean the golf club communities of Enniskerry or the banking
communities housed in the IFSC. Community implies those ‘others’ who differ from the hegemonic
norm of the white, middle-class, Catholic, heterosexual, Irish male.
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Other
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| Keywords: |
Studio 468; community; creativity; Rialto; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
9163 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof Aislinn O'Donnell
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| Date Deposited: |
18 Jan 2018 17:05 |
| Publisher: |
The Common Ground |
| Refereed: |
No |
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