HYDE PARK — Irish artists will come to the Hyde Park Art Center to start an artist archaeology of the neighborhood.
Ailbhe Murphy, a visual artist interested in community development, and Ciaran Smyth, a former psychologist-turned-artist, of the Vagabond Reviews collaborative on July 15 will start a residency at the art center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave.
Murphy and Smyth have proposed a “conversational layering of our encounters,” an idea whose execution doesn’t appear immediately obvious.
“Our residency there has been structured as a community mapping process or archaeology, in which we will engage with artists, practitioners, community activists, local residents, networks and institutional arenas of practice as a testing ground for developing a reading of a city,” Murphy and Smyth wrote of their plans.
The pair is interested primarily in new ways people can participate in culture and create new forms of knowledge.
Most recently, the duo completed a residency in Callan, Ireland, where they turned the semi-derelict wing of the Callan Workhouse into a cultural hub in the community with screenings and open discussions on structural violence and “speaking the truth to power” using archival documents from the city.
Vagabond Reviews will be in residency through Aug. 25.
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