Red Bird Youth Collective

The POD is a mobile daydreaming facility for young people in County Galway. Using Architectural principles Red Bird Youth Collective considered structures, the senses and landscape and how these can influence daydreaming. The POD incorporates sound, light, scents and sensory deprivation to encourage participants to daydream. Red Bird Youth Collective have completed four projects to date working with arts professional to create diverse works that explore Architecture, Performance, Film-Making and Visual Art.

Architect Dominic Stevens’ founded his practice in 1995. His concerns about the connection between the Irish landscape and buildings have led him to seek inspiration in each project’s surroundings. Being interested in what things are, rather than what they look like often drives him to examine vernacular architecture. His work has been exhibited and published worldwide, including Guggenheim New York, the Venice architecture Bienalle and the New York Times. In 2012 he was Shortlisted for BSI Swiss Architecture Award, one of 25 international architects under 50 years old. He is also a lecturer in Dublin Institute of Technology.

Le Gear’s art practice is enchantingly intangible. Her research is based both on empirical science and the more intuitive process of homeopathy, which works on the notion that the lower the concentration of a substance, the more potent it becomes. This has led her to grow crystals from human tears, dilute icebergs homoeopathically and trace the memories of fairy circles and megalithic sites.

In 2011 Ruth was awarded a 6 month residency in Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Ireland. Other residencies include Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2013), Arctic Circle (2012), Berlin (Culturia 2012), Iceland (SIM, 2012/09) Cill Rialig, (Kerry, 2011) Tyrone Guthrie (2010) and Limerick City Gallery of Art (2008). She was awarded an upcoming residency at CCA Laznia for summer 2014.