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Pallas Heights 2003 - 2006

Designed by Atelier, the recently published 'Pallas Heights
2003-2006', has just won the prestigious and singular ICAD
gold award for 2007 by an international jury. This is the
first time that a gold has been awarded in 4 years.

Pallas Heights 2003-2006 is a significant book that
documents and extends the exhibitions programme in the
recently demolished Sean Tracey House, Buckingham St, Dublin 1.

Pallas Heights was a series of ground breaking contemporary
art exhibitions that occurred in four flats in a northside
municipal house block that was listed for future demolition.
Pallas Heights arose as a sustained considered reaction to
the steady trend of diminishing creative space for artists in
Dublin. It was conceived as a short-term project space for
artists, however with 18 shows and special projects taking
place there over the course of 3 years it became something
that went far beyond its initial premise.

What emerged through the programme were projects that
re-imagined the site as zone of contention, allowing its
histories, its extended contexts, and its inevitable future
demise to become relevant to the concerns of the exhibiting
artists. Pallas Heights was unique in that it provided a
platform for many young and emerging artists to experiment
within a context that is separate and outside art gallery
conventions. The project was widely covered by the press,
both local and internationally, in terms of both the
exhibition programme and the issues raised by the project's
placement.

Pallas Heights 2003-2006 features critical essays by
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith (curator, critic and lecturer
in Modern Irish at UCD, Turner Prize Judge 2005), Lucy Cotter
(art historian and critic based in Amsterdam, guest editor
Third Text, CIRCA, Contexts), and Paul O'Neill (artist,
curator, writer for 'Everything, Art Monthly, Contemporary,
the Future, Space & Culture Journal and CIRCA), plus
interviews the artist curators Mark Cullen and Brian Duggan.

Written contributions on 14 exhibitions include critical texts
and essays from Rachael Thomas, (Senior Curator Irish Museum of
Modern Art), Aidan Dunne (Irish Times), Ciara Healy (Fellow in
Curatorial Practice Glucksman Gallery Cork), Georgina Jackson,
(Curator, Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane), Elyse A. Gonzales,
(Assistant Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art at the
University of Pennsylvania) among others.

Pallas Heights 2003-2006 also features 20 newly commissioned
artworks from the artists, made specifically for the book
format, such as Garrett Phelan, Niamh McCann, Fergus Byrne,
Brendan Earley, and Clodagh Emoe.

The book is sale in the Gallery [www.pallasprojects.org] priced 25
Euro, or by mail order, please email for details, a post and
packaging charge will apply depending on your location.

It is also available in Dublin at the Hugh Lane Gallery, the Irish
Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Ireland, as well as the
Glucksman, Cork, the ICA and Serpentine Gallery, London, with more
to be announced.

Pallas Heights 2003-2006
Edition 500.
ISBN 978-0-9554819-0-1
Supported by The Arts Council special projects and Dublin City Council

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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