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(September 27, 2000)
image from Nissan/IMMA
brochure;
photo Dan Shipsides/Ronan McCrae
Dan Shipside's
Bamboo Support was launched at a reception in the Gresham Hotel,
Dublin today. The artwork was to be seen opposite the hotel: the façade
of the former Carlton Cinema entirely clad in bamboo scaffolding.
According to the
press pack, "Over 12,000 metres of bamboo was shipped from Hong
Kong for the structure, which is 30m long x 20.5m high x 1.5m wide.
A team of six professional scaffolding workers from the Ever Need
Comapny Ltd, Hong Kong...erected the scaffolding using simple hand
tools over a five-day period...Bamboo Support is intended to
highlight the current redevelopment of Dublin...The project also examines
the cultural and economic parallels between Ireland the Far East;
between their turbulent tiger economies and our own..."
The project is
funded by Nissan and is a collaboration with the Irish Museum of Moderrn
Art. It will be in place until December 2.
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