Out Of Site 2008
in association with Dublin City Council presents

Promenade
Date: 8th November Time: 12-6pm

Alastair MacLennan, Amanda Coogan, Dennis McNulty, Gareth Kennedy, Frances Mezzetti, Dominic Thorpe, Alex Conway, Sinead McCann, Michelle Browne and Pauline Cummins. 

Promenade, is a special, one-day event inviting 10 artists to respond to a specific setting: the Clontarf walkway in Dublin 3. Promenade will use the sheltered bathing and seating areas, the walkway and the sea along the Clontarf walkway to present multiple performances free to the public.

For Promenade, the Artane Band will occupy a bunker while performing songs by the 80's rock band, Tears for Fears. A scratch DJ sculpts sounds inside Tom De Paor's award-winning pumping station at Vernon Avenue A figure clings to a metal ladder that rises from the sea. Also in Promenade, the public are invited to join in a group performance, Synchronised Swimmers, dubbed 'the Alternative Spencer Tunick'. Participants are asked to bring their towel and swimsuit and get your limbs tangled as we don our suits as only the Irish know how.


Out Of Site is a series of live art that provides a platform for artists to create innovative new performative work in public spaces. Out Of Site offers the general public the opportunity to experience an exciting and challenging form of contemporary art practice. Out of site presents the possibility to re-experience urban Dublin through a series of live art performances in public spaces throughout the city.

Out Of Site was set up by Michelle Browne in 2006 to bring about the creation of new performative work, while bringing it to the reach of a wider audience than the traditional gallery goer.

Performance art creates vigorous, unexpected human contact that explores our condition in contemporary society. Out Of Site embraces chance encounters and outcomes, and relishs and revels in the unexpected and the spontaneous.