MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

FIONA WOODS / research / 2015 - 2021

FIELD JOURNAL

Free*Space was conceived as a conceptual, digital, relational and theoretical infrastructure, developed in 2015 to support a co-operative process of artistic research and dialogue in Limerick city. The work began from the idea that public-ness is a social, spatial and cultural process integral to democracy. It set out to cognitively map different readings of the city and to test public and counter-public productions of urban space. Practices of enclosure and practices of commoning were investigated through various methods. The work drew together social actors, activists and advocates to share views, practices and/or actions towards the production of spaces of common interest in the city. This section takes the form of a field journal that acts as a record of actions between 2015 and 2019, presented in reverse order.

CONVERSATION #4

CONVERSATION #4

November 10th; I met up with Rod Stoneman in a 'public house' in Kinvara. We had spoken some months previously about our common interest in the work of Alexander Kluge and the representation of capital in films. I had just been reading Frederic Jameson's Goepolitical Aesthetic, in which he uses the term 'cognitive mapping' to describe attempts to grasp the complexity of the system of capitalism. Rod had contacted me in relation to a good film choice and we met to discuss a se

CONVERSATION #2

CONVERSATION #2

Following some email discussions with Lucia, I proposed to bring together a small group for a discussion about Free*Space, people who might have an interest in such a practice, and might see it as something of benefit to their own work. The group included Pauline Goggin, a socially engaged artist from Limerick, Kate O' Shea, a socially engaged artist and currently an MA student at LSAD, Lucia and myself. The meeting took place in Old School, In many ways this conversation was

CONVERSATION #1

CONVERSATION #1

This is one of several conversation that I had with Lucia Pola at Old School, a co-working venue that she is establishing in Limerick. It followed another discussion with Pauline Goggin about the idea of a Free Mapping project, out of which the notion of Free*Space arose. Lucia and I met in a corridor in Old School, looking out of the window to the vacant garden below. There was a lot of common ground between us on this question of a Free*Space and what it might do. The idea

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