City of Ideas
2007

The City of Ideas show was the second collaboration between Barons Self Storage and the organization Human Resources.  The organization was set up in 2005 by Emma Houlihan and Ben Roosevelt, and sprang from their desire to create a platform for artists in Galway.

The City of Ideas show, while pursuing Human Resources’ socioeconomic interests, drew intensely on both its location, Riverside Commercial Estate in Galway, and its site, a storage facility.  This division between location and site somehow recovered the two leading tendencies in the show: one linking up with issues of economic and urban development in the Galway area and beyond, the other engaging in a more intimate relationship with the building and its use.
           
— Michaele Cutaya, excerpt from Circa.

City of Ideas

Circa

 

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