The Obliteration Room by artist Yayoi Kusama is a deceptively simple, incredibly effective installation at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Kusama created a huge white-painted domestic environment as a giant canvas, inviting thousands of visiting children to decorate it with coloured stickers over the course of a fortnight. The exhibition runs until mid March 2012.
By Sarah Mensinga.
MOVES TO reform and modernise the Dáil are on the agenda for Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett in the new year, including a parliamentary television channel by the end of the year, procedural changes, a new dress code and the banning of four-letter words.
“We have live coverage to approximately 25 per cent of the population through UPC, the cable system. What we’re able to do is relay what you see and hear in Leinster House, live, and we’re now working towards trying to have Sky take it on board,” he added.
It is hoped the national broadcaster will also get involved.
Barrett wants TDs to smarten up and stop swearing for TV (Irish Times)
From Met Eireann:
Weather Warning – Stormy Conditions
Stormy conditions overnight and during Tuesday. Gale force southerly winds veering westerly by morning with some severe damaging gusts of 100 to 140 km/h, strongest in exposed northern and northwestern parts. Heavy driving rain giving way to showery conditions by morning. Some showers wintry in northern areas
Pour yourself a stiff one and watch tonight’s Come Dine With Me here.
Taken in Inchicore, D8 earlier this evening.
The national grid will return to full capacity this weekend.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsIJ9Lpe_vM
David’s Network News.
Live from Kerry.
Journalistic sanity in a world gone mad.
Even if he has fallen out with the sports anchor (1.50).
Via @davidod
More than two dozen members of Occupy Cork have been literally occupying a six-storey, apparently NAMA-owned building on Oliver Plunkett Street since Christmas morning.
The group describe the building as “a gift to the people of Cork, to be used by them for the empowerment and enlivening of the communities of Cork” and has been renamed The Cork Community Resource Centre.
Plans for the vacant 20,000 sq ft office block, built by the Bowen Construction group, which went into liquidation last Summer, will include:
1. A pop-up charity Café voluntarily run by the young and old, bridging the generation gap.
2. An alternative music school and recording space.
3. A health, healing and nutrition space run voluntarily by experts in their fields.
4. A library and bookshop
5. Free public internet access
6. Open spaces for training and educational purposes and skill sharing
7. Home of the ‘Let’s Get Together’ foundation, offering free counselling and suicide prevention services.
8. Community Creche
The group adds:
In our cities towns and villages we see empty houses and buildings, resources that should and could be used; The social dividend from NAMA has never materialised. Meanwhile public services are cut in repeated austerity budgets which are destroying the economy and people’s lives, while the state continues to pay out billions to unsecured bondholders.
By liberating this building, the ordinary decent citizens of the nation are taking a stand against elite economic interests. Facilities such as this should not remain derelict eyesores, but should be resources with which we can rejuvenate our communities and inspire people to take control of their own home places.
The centre will be opened on the 23rd of January.
The Rebel Arises (Cork Community Centre)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5VHKqb9o1k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Marvelous.
By The Animators.
Directed by Ovié Étseyatsé on a Christmassy Grafton Street, Dublin.
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