This project, instigated by Rita Donagh, was confirmation for me of the crossover of art/life, private action/shared space, personal/global, as well as the multiple ‘others’ that are created through collaboration. Beginning as a life-drawing class, the life model became a part of the group. We devised systems and ways of operating and more-or-less lived in the space for three weeks. We were very affected by world events taking place, particularly the killing of students on campus at Kent State University which became part of our work and a haunting shadow evoking the fragility of civilised society and the brutal sublimation of radical
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