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“Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream”, installation view during the 53rd Annual Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival, August 2021. Photo by Marta Janik.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First Person Report of \u201cEmpty Columns Are a Place to Dream\u201d in Birr, Ireland<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Each of the eighteen artists\u2013from eleven countries\u2013in \u201cEmpty Columns Are a Place to Dream\u201d used the photograph, The Square, Parsonstown<\/a><\/em> by Robert French (1841-1917) from the Lawrence Photograph Collection, to imagine a monument that speaks to a world where all people enjoy safety, security, well-being, and dignity on their own terms. The exhibition of twenty-one works debuted at the 53rd Annual Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival where it won a 2021 National Heritage Award. Two of the exhibition\u2019s artists, Marta Janik and Anthony D Kelly, set out from their respective homes in Warsaw, Poland and Castlebar, Ireland to attend in person. Based in the town\u2019s Tin Jug Studios, they were able to directly experience the festival, the project and the magic of Birr. They report on their travels and the exhibition in Kolaj<\/em> 34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article by Anthony D Kelly and Marta Janik appears in <\/em>Kolaj 34. To read the full article, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream”, installation view during the 53rd Annual Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival, August 2021. Photo by Caroline F. Conway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Collage is at its heart an integrative medium, an engine of disruption, reorganisation and coming back together, of making meaning, making sense. Another advantage of collage as a medium is it allows us, through imagery, to have a direct discourse with a place and its history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This article by Anthony D Kelly and Marta Janik appears in <\/em>Kolaj 34. To read the full article, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmpty Columns Are a Place to Dream\u201d, curated by Ric Kasini Kadour, took place as part of the 53rd Annual Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival<\/a>, 13-20 August 2021. A presentation about the exhibition, including a display of the collages in the exhibition, was part of Kolaj LIVE Knoxville, 5-7 November 2021. The exhibition will be on display at the Knoxville Museum of Art<\/a>, 4 January-19 February 2022. A forthcoming book about the exhibition, <\/em>Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream, is available for pre-order at Kasini House ARTSHOP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warsaw-based collagist Marta Janik has taken part in exhibitions in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, and the USA. Her works have appeared in <\/em>Przekr\u00f3j (Warsaw) and the annual journal <\/em>Maintenant (A Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art) published by Three Rooms Press in New York. She is also one of the founders of the \u201cCollage Language\u201d project launched in Warsaw in 2019. Her article, \u201cCollage Language: Report from Warsaw\u201d appeared in <\/em>Kolaj<\/a> 29<\/a>. Learn more at www.planetmarta.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony D Kelly is a collagist in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. He studied arts administration, arts participation and global development and humanistic integrative psychotherapy. He was Gallery Administrator, Curator and Project Facilitator at the Basement Project Space Gallery in Cork, Ireland. His work has been shown in Belgium, England, Italy, Scotland, Portugal, and the United States, as well as across Ireland. His work has been published in <\/em>Kolaj 32<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Art Reveal, <\/em>Creativ Paper, and <\/em>Murze Magazine. He is also the creator of the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Sighting Archives. Learn more at the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory<\/a> and www.freeformtrouble.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Person Report of \u201cEmpty Columns Are a Place to Dream\u201d in Birr, Ireland Each of the eighteen artists\u2013from eleven countries\u2013in \u201cEmpty Columns Are a Place to Dream\u201d used the photograph, The Square, Parsonstown by Robert French (1841-1917) from the…<\/p>\n

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