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The Cove / Vertical.Nature.Base. 7 regional and national venues in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

The Cove: a Legacy Trust UK funded collaborative dance/art performance project building on research established during Vertical.Nature.Base (VNB) 2011. Venues

Port a Doris, Donegal: VNB residential public project, Public Commission HVS 4c+

Echo Echo Studios, Derry: VNB Exhibition and performances.

Shipsides' contribution to The Cove further developed the conceptual and physical framework from Vertical.Nature.Base (VNB).

The research developed the embodied strategies established at the public, 3-week residential VNB project located at a remote cove on the Donegal coastline involving members of the public, dancers and climbers. The experiential nature of living and working in this environment led to various outcomes including ‘Platform’ and ‘Public Art Commission HVS 4a+’. ‘Platform’ was a temporary interactive art installation - an aluminium platform built in the cove. ‘Public Commission HVS 4a+’ is a new rock climbing route - a concrete and conceptual public artwork with a QR code to a digital presence and history. Both outcomes were later re-published; ‘Platform’ in a public exhibition in Derry (Echo Echo) and ‘Public Commission HVS 4c+’ in Artlink’s Public art commissions (100x100 Inishowen).

With additional funding Echo Echo and Shipsides took the context and research of this process furtherand developed the touring dance performance,‘The Cove’. Shipsides' role developed the platform installation as an interactive artwork acting as dynamic set for this new phase. The production has toured 7 venues in Northern Ireland and the ROI and is intended to be toured nationally and internationally. Platform is also intended to be shown in other contexts as an autonomous artwork in itself (pending). The research also featured strongly in BBCRadio 4’s commissioned programme ‘Dancing with mountains’.

The 3 year research development is also published online in a verticalnaturebase.blogspot