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As part of her ongoing Municipal Walker practice, artist Lian Bell has been commissioned by the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Ireland to service an annual public Municipal Walk. The Sarah Purser Municipal Walk has been added to the work roster of the Municipal Walker, and is maintained annually for three years from November 2024.
Municipal Walker is a mechanism to consider civic responsibility, and how our bodies attune with urban energetics, by delineating and maintaining significant walking routes as a service to the city. The Municipal Walker has designated themselves as a worker for the city council and wears a yellow high visibility waistcoat printed with a re-interpreted council logo. They are a middle aged woman with greying hair.
As an artist and champion of artists who lived in Dublin from 1848-1943, Sarah Purser had a significant and lasting impact on the arts in Ireland. However her legacy was mostly forgotten until recent years. Purser was also businesswoman, a board member, a friend, an employer, a sister, and a woman who got things done. The Municipal Walk, which is open to the public to attend, asks can we approach knowing Sarah Purser in another way?
On the walk, participants are introduced to the idea of walking with Purser in the same place, separated only by time. We share information about what we know of Purser’s body as a way to attend to how her body moved in the city, and how our bodies move in the same streets a century later. Alongside the Municipal Walker and two experts in Purser’s life and work, a curator and an archivist, we walk together in silence. The route takes us from outside the gallery that Purser helped to set up, across the city to three significant locations in her life: the site of the workshop of An Túr Gloine, a cooperative stained glass studio she founded and funded (closed in 1944), her painting studio at Harcourt Terrace (with its incorrect heritage plaque), and her home at Mespil House where she held monthly artist salons for over 30 years (demolished in the 1950s).
The Municipal Walker offers gentle tactics of attending to the charged atmospheres of urban life as the group walks from location to location in silence. This is not a walking tour; we are all experts at walking in the city that Purser walked in. Short archival texts are shared at each location, and some fragments of collective knowledge about each location are gleaned from the group. At the end of the walk, participants are invited to have a conversation about the experience over a cup of tea or coffee.
Credits
Commissioned by the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
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