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In Ireland, Making Art From the Rubble

By DOREEN CARVAJAL Published: January 2, 2012

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DUBLIN Nighttime is when David Monahan stalks dark streets in search of Irelands Generation Bailout, the nickname for the current wave of young Irish emigrants who are fleeing financial crisis for farflung countries.
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He snapped photograph No. 58 a few weeks ago in a shadowy fishing port in Loughshinny, County Dublin. His model was Graham Martin, 29, an art photographer bound for Brazil in search of a better prospect then his last job sorting Brussels sprouts.

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His subjects are heroes, adventurers, survivors, said Mr. Monahan, who has been recording bittersweet departures for 19 months in a series of photographs called Leaving Dublin. The project celebrates those who my city has no space for in these times. In these times is Irish shorthand for 14.5 percent unemployment, rising taxes, slashed public spending and a humiliating !67.5 billion, or about $87 billion, bailout by international lenders. But austerity has also evolved into a muse for Irish artists, who are both recording the crisis and finding opportunity in the wreckage left by a spree of reckless real-estate lending and toxic debts. Some are striking cut-rate rental deals with bankrupt developers to create studios and galleries in vacant luxury apartment buildings and warehouses in cities from Limerick to Dublin. Others, like Mr. Monahan, 47 whose own freelance work for national museums plunged in the crisis are channeling sorrow and anger into their art, with a result that is often poignant and aching.

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The inspiration born of the bailout is so rich that the filmmaker Donald Taylor Black, 60, director of Irelands film school at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, is creating an hourlong documentary about the genre of crash art. Paid for with an initial !100,000 from the Irish Film Board, its title, Stuffing the Tiger, is a pointed reference to the countrys distant Celtic Tiger boom times.
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One of the photographs from the "Settlement" series by Anthony Haughey. Mr. Haughey traveled through Ireland, photographing building developments and homes, unfinished or abandoned when crisis struck the Irish economy.

Why am I doing it? said Mr. Black, who has directed documentaries for 25 years, focusing on political and cultural issues. This is the worst thing that has happened in Ireland for a long time. I feel angry that cutbacks are being made in education, in health services and throughout Irish life. And the ordinary citizen who wasnt responsible is being punished while it appears that builders, bankers and some politicians have gotten away with it. He has filmed a collection of artists. They include a poet, a writer, a singer, painters, photographers and the animator of Cutbacks, a series of stop motion, Web episodes featuring puppets made with paper and scraps that deliver searing commentary about Irelands plight. For the past two years, David Quin, 60, a lecturer at the film school, has been making and posting online weekly 30-second episodes of Cutbacks, which have proved popular with a predominantly male Irish audience. A short film featuring the puppets was shown at the 2011 Corona Cork Film Festival . It makes me furious, said Mr. Quin, who has mocked Irelands prime minister, Enda Kenny, as a budget marionette in a suit and dangling strings. We had absolutely no say in whats happening. The financial crisis seems to push artists toward darkness. Mr. Monahan makes all his portraits of migrs at night, for aesthetic reasons but also so that he can avoid street traffic. The idea is to heighten the drama and make the work heroic, he said, and to show how these young emigrants are full of strength and fortitude. Anthony Haughey, 48, a Dublin art photographer, also roamed Ireland after twilight to capture the melancholy ruins of the nations abandoned development projects. His traveling photo exhibition Settlement opened in November in Dublin and is showing at the Helsinki Photography Biennale in Finland in March. The portraits feature stark landscapes of unsold and often unfinished cookie-cutter developments constructed before the real-estate market collapsed in 2008. He worked at night, he said, to avoid disturbing security guards protecting the sites. After a while, he realized he was alone among the muddy patches and skeletons of brick houses with missing windows and roofs.
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