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Canine Café by Austin McQuinn
| |  The Canine Cafe is an urban social space for both species with canine and human cuisine, beds and chairs, water bowls, tea & coffee and a reading library.
This café only allows humans under dog supervision… otherwise you may glance at proceedings from a viewing area. This is a visual art project, a living studio, a social experiment and an inter-species meeting place all under one roof for the ten days of the Festival. Over the run of the Festival, this art project will create a photographic and film archive artwork of The Dogs of Clonmel and South Tipperary focusing on the dogs as a separate and specific local community of all ages, as companions, workers, show dogs, carers, disabled, leaders, rebels, homeless, and rejects. Through the medium of photography and film, the project will look at how this species is linked to us personally and historically on a social, biological and behavioural level. The reading Library will hold a collection of wide ranging dog-related literature from animal sociologists including manuals, breed guides, and biographical and observational writings and philosophical studies. | | | | Opening Times | | Friday 3rd July from 5-7pm | | Sat 4th - Sat 11th July from 11-7pm | | | | Address | | S7 Market Place, Clonmel | | |
| | Background... | | | The project takes its lead from the writings of Donna Haraway, a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California in Santa-Cruz, who recently produced The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. She is passionate about and truly believes in the importance for scholars and laymen to reflect upon the historical, social and biological effect of inter-species relationships. She explores significant otherness by taking dog-human relationships seriously, and to demonstrate the importance of history within cultures by examining dog-human worlds. Informed by this and other contemporary studies, the main goal of this art project is to reflect upon human-animal relationships to better understand our approaches and futures with other animals that grow with us as our helpers, workers, threats/enemies and companions/friends. | | | | Austin McQuinn works in a broad range of media: painting, sculpture, vid eo and live performance. He has had several solo shows in Ireland including three at Project, Dublin and has exhibited in Spain, France, and Korea and more recently at Shanghai Short Film Festival. He was Irish artist in residence for the World Expo 2000 in Hanover and in 2003 he was commissioned to make a new work for the Robert Emmet Bi-Centenary which was shown at Kilmainham Gaol Dublin In 2005 he presented a major multi media installation for Cork2005:Capital of Culture. He lives and works in Co.Tipperary. | | | |
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