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Traveller Collection Roundtable at Pavée Point
Seamus Nolan’s work, Traveller Collection, a CAPP commission, investigates the idea of archive, deconstructs ideas on ‘heritage’ and engages with communities of place and of interest, involving Traveller activists and archivists. Artist Seamus Nolan, working with Paveé Point, representatives from the Travelling community and researcher Dr Eve Olney, is engaging in an ongoing collaborative process with cultural practitioners, Traveller activists and collectors in an exploration of what a Traveller collection or a Traveller specific museum might be and how it would be managed and maintained by Travellers. An online platform dedicated to Traveller culture, www.travellercollection.ie, is open to submission, moderation and curation by the public. Here, visitors to the site can view featured collections and recently loaded items.
On the 21st June, Traveller Collection was launched folowing a day of discussion and celebration of Traveller Culture at both Paveé Point and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, as part of the CAPP event Practice and Power.
The sculpture Street Singer by Jerome Connor was loaned to Paveé Point by Dublin City Gallery, and was in place for public viewing on the 21st June. This marked the first such loan between the organisations and represents the start of a process to make representations of Traveller culture more visible within the museum.
A roundtable discussion was held in Paveé Point on Representation and the archive, with Seamus Nolan, artist; Rosaleen McDonagh, Paveé Point; Dr. Eve Olney, Artist and Ethnographer; Jessica O’ Donnell, Head of Education and Community Outreach, Dublin City Gallery, and chaired by Oein de Bhairduin. This wide-ranging discussion explored questions of ownership, agency, and representation of Traveller culture and heritage. Points of discussion included the challenges of collecting Traveller culture, and the related necessity to have a Traveller collection maintained by Travellers themselves.
This audio record of the Roundtable discussion opens with a song from Mary Collins. Picture: Street Singer at Pavée Point, June 2018. Derek Spiers
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By CreateSeamus Nolan’s work, Traveller Collection, a CAPP commission, investigates the idea of archive, deconstructs ideas on ‘heritage’ and engages with communities of place and of interest, involving Traveller activists and archivists. Artist Seamus Nolan, working with Paveé Point, representatives from the Travelling community and researcher Dr Eve Olney, is engaging in an ongoing collaborative process with cultural practitioners, Traveller activists and collectors in an exploration of what a Traveller collection or a Traveller specific museum might be and how it would be managed and maintained by Travellers. An online platform dedicated to Traveller culture, www.travellercollection.ie, is open to submission, moderation and curation by the public. Here, visitors to the site can view featured collections and recently loaded items.
On the 21st June, Traveller Collection was launched folowing a day of discussion and celebration of Traveller Culture at both Paveé Point and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, as part of the CAPP event Practice and Power.
The sculpture Street Singer by Jerome Connor was loaned to Paveé Point by Dublin City Gallery, and was in place for public viewing on the 21st June. This marked the first such loan between the organisations and represents the start of a process to make representations of Traveller culture more visible within the museum.
A roundtable discussion was held in Paveé Point on Representation and the archive, with Seamus Nolan, artist; Rosaleen McDonagh, Paveé Point; Dr. Eve Olney, Artist and Ethnographer; Jessica O’ Donnell, Head of Education and Community Outreach, Dublin City Gallery, and chaired by Oein de Bhairduin. This wide-ranging discussion explored questions of ownership, agency, and representation of Traveller culture and heritage. Points of discussion included the challenges of collecting Traveller culture, and the related necessity to have a Traveller collection maintained by Travellers themselves.
This audio record of the Roundtable discussion opens with a song from Mary Collins. Picture: Street Singer at Pavée Point, June 2018. Derek Spiers