#DublinShipsAward - The ‘Dublin Ships’ visual installation on the Scherzer Bridges on the North Wall as previously photographed on Afloat.ie, was among the winners at the Allianz Business to Arts Awards.
Under the category of the Jim McNaughton Perpetual Award for Best Commissioning Practice, the winner of the project in association between Dublin Port Company & Dublin City Council, went to Cliona Harmey’s installation ‘Dublin Ships’.
This project was an “Interaction with the city programme" and with the aim of Dublin ships reconnecting the work of the port, with the citizens of the city.
Afloat adds that on the day of the photograph taken at the Scherzer Bridges, next to the National Convention Centre, the ‘Dublin Ships’ featured on two large scale LED screens were the ferries ‘Ulysses’ and ‘Nordica’.
These vessels were only a snapshot in time as 'Dublin Ships' demonstrated by bringing to life the movements of ships in Dublin Port.
In addition by using the medium of LED technology was to create a strong visual and cultural link between the port and the city in full view of Dublin's citizens, commuters and pedestrians.
The work juxtaposed the speed of instantaneous data with the speed of movement of real entities in space. Dublin Ships highlighted the meanings and poetic qualities of ship names, which include allusions to maritime trade, cargoes, historical figures and distant places.
On a related note to movement of ships, the ‘Nordica’ or to give its full former name Stena Noridica as referred in our coverage, was to depart Irish Sea service in March following replacement by Stena Superfast X.
She is now on charter to DFDS on the Straits of Dover route as the Malo Seaways.