Red Bird Youth Collective’s exhibition – The Condition of Others

Red Bird Youth Collective’s latest exhibition The Condition of Others opens Friday, August 28th at 6pm in Galway Arts Centre. The exhibition will run from August 28th – September 26th, 2015.

This project was facilitated by Siobhan McGibbon, a visual artist interested in transdisciplinary practice, particularly the intersections between art and science. McGibbon works with sculpture, installation, drawing and animation. As an artist she is interested in the concept of “Normal”, especially in the context of the medicalized body and the experience of illness.

The goal of this project was to create a collaborative exhibition that brought together the different styles of each artist. They have been learning about casting and mould-making techniques, resulting in each artist creating a mould of their mouth, then embellishing each one to represent their individual identities. Each of the mouths mounted on the wall are used as a vessel to convey different personal elements that each participant has used in their animation. The centre mouth is being used to view the animation, as if a window to the soul. Each segment of the animation combines the different elements of each participants lived experience. These elements were chosen as a personal representation of each artist’s identity, and how they are conditioned by external forces or ‘the other’. The objects placed in the mouths echo the artist’s personal characteristics and external life to show how they relate (or not) to the world surrounding them. Each frame of the animation was hand drawn, showing the intricacy and high level of detail required to create such a collaborative piece.

Red Bird Youth Collective is a visual art group for young people living in Galway city & county. Established in September 2011 by Galway Arts Centre, it has received funding from The Arts Council & Galway County Council to deliver large scale, youth-led projects in collaboration with professional artists. The current project is enabled through The National Youth Council’s Artist in Youth Work Residency Scheme. Red Bird members work together on a diverse range of projects, including visual art, film, architecture, digital media, performance and literature projects.

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