Not exact matches
Not having
gallery space for
such a prolonged period raised questions about how to exhibit art and educate the public without a
traditional programmable
space.
It was also successful in mobilising both the
traditional arts venues,
such as Limerick City
Gallery and the Hunt Museum, as well as some fascinating slack
spaces across Limerick city, from Cleeve's Condensed Milk Factoy to the Sailor's Home on O'Curry Street.
Contemporary art's embrace of «time - based media»,
such as sound and moving image, poses a stark challenge for
traditional museum and
gallery spaces, which predate
such technologies and were designed for a very different kind of experience.
«We were inspired by
galleries that were making creative use of unconventional
space in cities outside the
traditional «art capitals»,
such as the recently - closed Appendix
gallery in Portland, as well as Young World in Detroit,» says Clough and Carroll in an email interview with AFC.
In addition, the museum has a programmatic dedication to the many hybrid forms that emerge from the increasing integration of film and visual arts, at the exact moment when a growing number of independent, adventurous filmmakers («auteurs») are tempted to seek refuge in the
traditional spaces of visual art
such as museums,
galleries, and biennials, for reasons connected to the intensified commercialization of the film circuit throughout the 1980s and»90s.