This section of the site provides some background to the project. The first stage was the production of three short videos which were shot in December 2000. Since then the videos were edited and transfered to DVD for exhibition.

The focal point for "Three Stories" is local history, viewed as a form of cultural geography which will be used to negotiate and explore notions of social history and create new social spaces. Narratives from local history will be re-interpreted and re-enacted in a contemporary context, as short dramas and sculptures. The films will be developed over a ten week workshop with participants from the county district. The intent is to blur the distinction between reality and fiction by shooting the films in a documentary style, in the tradition of the television docu-soap and video diary. Similarly the sculptures will be prototypes for a mass produced multiple, objects that seem to have a particular use value.

This project is a public art commission funded by South Dublin County Council, as part of the ‘in context’ per cent for art programme co-ordinated by Artworking.