Aisling O'Beirn
Small Urban Inventory
2005
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Aisling O'Beirn |
Aisling O'Beirn
Small Urban Inventory
2005
Aisling O'Beirn lives and works in Belfast. She is concerned with the way in which information and space is politicised and how this is communicated, read and interpreted. Her work represents social and political events and their formal, vernacular, urban or virtual frameworks.
Aisling has been collecting material including: short factual urban anecdotes, place and landmark nicknames, hand drawn maps and urban myths; from various cities for a number of years. During the RISK Academy she collected stories about Glasgow, adding them to the Small Urban Inventory. The inventory is an interactive contextual data-base of urban myths and stories, classified under common themes such as fires, animals, and beliefs. The project forms a taxonomy of contemporary urban experience, presented in a social space with comfy chairs and coffee.
Small Urban Inventory was presented on CD-Rom in the exhibition, alongside a notice board for visitors to contribute their own anecdotes. The new stories and drawings have been added to the Inventory which can be viewed here:
Small Urban Inventory
Virtual Urban Collaboration between Aisling O'Beirn and Marjetica Potrc