Outrider Artists European Local Arts Proposal

Outrider Artists Curators Maria Kerin and Fiona O'Dwyer (right to left) with Outrider artist Sarah Fuller

Outrider Artists  is a form of relation based on friendship, hospitality and generosity practice including artists based in rural North Clare, supported by Clare Arts Office. We have a history of conflation of domestic & public spaces,  situating that impulse in a historical and activist trajectory. 

Our work takes the form of Episodes, social choreographies that merge domestic & public space. Outrider Episodes are organised around transnational movement & immaterial exchange with freinds like Liquid (Estonia), MoKS, (EStonia), SERDE, (LATVIA). We have had residencies and participated at international presentations in Estonia and in seminar workshops with SERDE & MoKS in Lithuania.

Our experience of hosting residencies/workshops/collaborations with artists from abroad has presented a mirror to our own art practice and it has also developed into exhibitions abroad,  developed collaborations with transnationally talented artists and pitched us into a position to help us sustain their rural art practice.

Outrider Artists now wish to continue that positive creative empowerment through collaborating with Moks and SERDE. We have chosen shared work-shops & public presentations as the formats to explore the theme & acquire new artistic skills through the process of making.

 
Fiona O'Dwyer and I curated an experimental creative research event in my home in Monreal North, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, for a week in May, entitled 'The Future is Domestic!' 

The title for this gathering  is The Future is Domestic! part funded by European Local Arts through the Arts Council, and we were invited by our partners The Clare Arts Office. 

The unique creative team of Evelyn Muursepp and John Grzinich, from MoKs, both internationally recognized artists in their individual fields of drawing & sound have constructed a workshop that also has a level of social consciousness to be explored in its realization.

SERDE  are offering two workshops; gathering herbs and making vodka. In a country where alcohol abuse is rampant, this workshop should provoke intense discourse. Techniques of distillery and fermentation are new to Outrider artists and welcome as new methodologies for making & creating. Herb gathering has obvious rural connotations.

Outrider Artists, Moks and SERDE will give public presentations at the beginning & at the end of the week, in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, to a public audience, so to widen the contact opportunities with other members of the locality.