A virtual sound art exhibition running 3 Dec 2021 – 3 Dec 2022
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I Have the Right
Sounds of our Lives
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About
Sound On! is a creative sound artwork presenting experiences of human rights and happiness for and by people with an intellectual disability. The sound artwork consists of 3 audio tracks entitled developed over a six-month period through weekly on-line creative workshops. Everyone learnt new digital skills.
The group demonstrated many transferable skills including;
Problem solving, perseverance, focus and receiving instruction through their ability to record their voices and sounds using accessible sound recording and editing software
Creativity and confidence while producing their independent and group sound art pieces through personal expression
Review, feedback, teamwork and collaboration skills
Sound On! will be presented to an international audience from December 3rd 2021 – December 3rd 2022 to mark the International Day of People with Disabilities and will be hosted online by Headway Arts, UK as part of their annual arts programme. The 3 sound art pieces will be hosted on a co-designed bespoke website, welcoming people of all abilities to experience the sound artworks.
Sound On! was facilitated and led by artists Sinead McCann and AlanJames Burns in collaboration with Aidan Winters, Conor Begley, David Carter, David Deane, Frances Quinn, Jonathan Smith, Keith Whelan, Laura Hickey, Niamh Fortune and Sean Winder who were supported to create fun and self-expressive sound artworks. Co-designers Niamh and Conor worked closely with the artists to design the delivery of the Sound On! project. This project was fully supported by Saint John of God Liffey Services support staff led by Assistive Technology facilitator Sarah Gavra Boland and Suzanne Cunningham through the SJOG Liffey Online Engage Programme. The music composition was created in collaboration with composer Conor O’Malley.
It was first exhibited as part of the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival October 15-24, 2021. The initial ideas and creative processes for Sound On! were created through a creative research and development phase of the project facilitated and led by McCann and Burns in collaboration with Alex Kennedy, Chloe Larkin, David Carter, Eric Nolan, Jonathan Smith, Rachel Coss and supported by Saint John of God.
International Day of People with Disabilities
International Day of People with Disability (IDPWD) is a United Nations-sanctioned day that is celebrated internationally on 3 December. According to the WHO World Report on Disability, 15 per cent of the world’s population, or more than 1 billion people, are living with disability.
The objectives of IDPWD are:
- Educating people within the community around barriers to inclusion;
- Providing opportunities for supported education/ training/ volunteerism and employment for people with disability;
- Providing social and personal support to people living with disability;
- The provision of transport services to people with disability to support inclusion and participation within the community.
Digital Accessibility
Central to the build of this website and the presentation of this work is digital accessibility.
Digital accessibility refers to computer based and web based information and activities. When digital content is inclusively designed, people with disabilities can get the same information and perform the same interactions as any other user. When accessible design principles are overlooked or ignored, people with disabilities are often locked out. Sound On! website has been developed to be accessible to as many abilities and disabilities as possible.
90% of the world’s websites do not meet even the minimum requirements for accessibility established by the standards of the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C.) We must change that! The global pandemic widened the need for remote participation in jobs, school, social, civic, and commercial activities. The core principles of accessibility are often referenced to by the acronym POUR. It means that digital content and interactions must be Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust for people of all abilities and using devices of their choice.
More information on Digital Accessibility can be found here.
Response to the artwork
to be developed depending on the content
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Contact
All enquirers to artists@soundon.ie
Press
For further information, press release and images, please click below
Lead Partners
This project was funded by the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create; Culture Ireland; Kildare County Council Creative Ireland Community Grant; Saint John Of God and Headway Arts
Further information about our partners
Saint John of God Community Services Liffey Services
Saint John of God Community Services Liffey Services, provide residential, respite, day and education services to children and adults with intellectual disabilities in Dublin South City, Dublin Southwest, Dublin West, and North Kildare region in Ireland.
In the tradition of our founder Saint John of God and in the spirit of Hospitality it is our philosophy to work in partnership with the people we support, their families, our staff, our volunteers, and our local community to achieve excellence in the delivery of supports to people and to ensure the just and equitable treatment of all people regardless of their diversity. SJOGCS are dedicated to responding and supporting the needs of individuals with disabilities, and will bring that expertise into leading the efforts of user requirements.
Artist in the Community
Artist in the Community is an Arts Council of Ireland Scheme Managed by Create enabling artists and communities to work together to develop collaborative artworks. It is essential that consultation take place between the artist and the community, so that both parties are involved in deciding on the nature of the project’s realisation and to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities and artists.
About the Lead Visual Artists
Sinead McCann
I am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance, video, installation and sculpture often in a context, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. I studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04), and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged projects across disciplines as part of the curriculum. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014
Recent works:
An Agreement of Silence (2021), video artwork, exploring the alliance of church, state and broader community in the conferment, exploitation and abuse of women in the Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival, Mill theatre Dublin.
Trigger for Change (2022), a 46 minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award. Broadcasting on Newtalk radio station.
Living Inside; Six stories from the history of Irish prison reform (2019), a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs, Kilmainham Jail, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK, and University College Dublin.
The Trial (2018), is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council, Community Award Dublin City Council, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.
Health Inside (2018), a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Arts Council Award.
Alan James Burns
AlanJames Burns is a Dublin-based artist producing immersive sensory environments and event with mixed-reality technologies in site-specific locations reflecting on the inner psychological space by giving voices and consciousness to structures and systems. Burns works highly collaborative with other artists, writers, composers and technicians.
Recent projects include:
‘Open Mind, Closed System’ an interactive audio-visual artwork using a brain computer interface with generative imagery and audio, commissioned by Carlow Arts Festival 2021. An ambitious expansion of this work; ‘Augmented Body, Altered Mind’ has been commissioned by Carlow Arts Festival for their 2022 programme core funded by Arts Council Of Ireland Commissions Award and Arts and Disability Ireland Project Award.
‘Silicon Synapse’, a Virtual Reality experience conceived for the Carnegie Library in Swords, Fingal; redeveloped for JRC Milan, Italy and Bozar, Brussels, 2019; core funded by Arts Council of Ireland and jointly commissioned by Fingal Arts & European Commission.
‘Entirely hollow aside from the dark’, a sound installation produced inside caves commissioned by Fingal Arts 2016 and redeveloped for an Irish tour 2017 core funded by Arts Council of Ireland, North/South Co-Operation Fund & Creative Ireland. The first international presentation of this work took place at Creswell Cave, England, Aug 2019
Recent residencies include; Rapid Residency with Science Gallery Dublin, 2020; Research Residency with Hermes Artes Visuais, São Paulo, 2021; The Space Programme with the Performance Corporation at Tyrone Guthrie Centre 2019; Resonance Residency, JRC Milan, Italy and Seville, Spain, 2018-2020.