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Eimear O'Neill
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Toronto and Fergus, Ontario
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- 269 St George St East Fergus Ontario N1M 1K5
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- http://www.eimearoneill.com
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- I'm interested in community art installations as ways of knowing and revealing what's known in local communities. On my website ou'll see information on the Coming Home installation in Ireland, Canada and Africa which is planned to do that locally, culturally and globally in terms of how we become more indigenous to our own bodies, peoples and places. Network members are free to contribute.
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"Coming Home" invites participants to create miniature hearth/heart places that hold
some sense of their own journeys in becoming more indigenous to their particular body,
peoples and places. Fire has been symbolic of home place and of transformation for
thousands of years. For this community art installation any materials (clay, stones, tile,
slabs of text, tin, steel, grass, wood, tempered glass), can be used as long as the finished
piece is less than three cubic feet in volume, biodegradable and/or recyclable, and safe to
display lit with others as a miniature fireplace or tea-light/candle holder.
Participants can use photos, memorabilia, historic documents, artifacts, images and
objects, anything that they feel might be part of their personal journey to becoming more
at home in their particular body, in their complex identities and in their membership
within particular peoples, cultural traditions and places Those places can be those that
their ancestors’ bones compose as well as those where their own bones and those of their
children may lie. Being artful is less the issue than being true to their own experience of
coming home to themselves. Short artist statements of less than two pages are welcome
or pieces can speak for themselves. Pieces less than three cubic feet in volume and safe to
display lit with others can be dropped off at the office of the Transformative Learning
Centre OISE/UT in Toronto or at the Department of Adult and Community Education,
University of Maynooth in Ireland before May 1st 2008.
Contact eoneill@oise.utoronto.ca, www.eimearoneill.com for more
Coming Home .. to your own
Body, Peoples and Place on this Earth
Public
displays are
planned in
Toronto for
fall 2008, in
Cork
Ireland for
late spring
2009.
All tiny fire
places will be
returned to
their makers
or to the
Earth by fall
2009 as per
artist’s
request.
Super photo! It's so great to have you here.
I forgot to ask you about where the Coming Home installation is at these days.
Lisa
xo