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Cork Midsummer Festival Contemporary Artists' Group - Danger Museum

The Cork Midsummer Festival, part this year of the official program of Cork 2005, is an art festival first held in 1997. Danger Museum, a group of artists that participated in the festival this year, conducted a survey on the cultural environment in Cork and executed the project "Blow-In" to express it in their work. The project used four programs to provoke thought on the present and future development of cultural and artistic activities in Cork and on the role demanded of Cultural Capital of Europe Cork 2005.

Interviews conducted and published with 13 persons active in the Cork art scene in various respects Production and exhibition of two collages (Concept Illustrations I & II) based on the interviews Construction of a giant cloth cigar Presentation of the cigar to the Cork Public Museum (performance event)   ※ Background to segments 3 and 4 is that when Cork historically hosted a major international exposition in 1902-03, King Edward VII presented a cigar to the city's mayor of that time, Edward Fitzgerald, and that cigar is now held by the museum to commemorate the event. The exhibition attracted much attention, and attendance at the opening set a new record for attendance at the Cork Public Museum.

●Interview
	Date ： 1 - 15 March. 2005
	Interviewees　：
	Irene Murphy, Harry Moore, Zechlin,Tony Sheehan, Emma Johnston, Ali Robertson, John Adams, Douglas Walshe, Liz Meaney, Ciaran Bulman, Sean Kelly, Grant Watson and David O'Brien

●Residence program
	(making artworks in Cork, co-working in Dublin with Grant Watson)
	Date ： 11 May. 2005 -
	The place for working in Cork ： The Jack Lynch Artists' House in Shandon, Cork

●Exhibition "Blow-In"
	Date ： 15 - 24 June. 2005
	Venue ： Cork Public Museum (in the Fitzgerald’s Park)
	Curated by ： Grant Watson
	Produced by ： Cork Midsummer Festival
	Visitors ： 3,400 people

PROFILE DANGER MUSEUM www.dangermuseum.com Danger Museum is an artist collective facilitating and exploring the relationship between art institutions, artists and audiences. Danger Museum's interest lies in long-term developments of concepts and projects with collaborators that are channeled through exhibitions, publications and the web. Miho Shimizu and Renberg are based in Tokyo and Oslo whilst the third member Tien Wei Woon lives in Singapore.

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