All this art "for the people", not very popular is it?

All that cash could have been used to pay for 19 "Art" attack operations

Sad that Art Odyssey didn't get this, seems the judges weren't brave enough to take on something outside the box..

REAL culture is what the real people(working class) who made belfast and northern ireland what it is .......who are you to say what these people say...thought ? anyone can home in on the titanic! thought HERE, is more than the titanic.....what about the more recent acheivments...peace !...thought
creativity is a word worth looking at?????
REAL people need to have a say in this world of "new representatives of Northern Ireland"who are you ??

The Ice Maiden. Was a survivor of the Titanic disaster rescued 76 years too late

Excellent

Great achievement - for N ireland

well done

Apologies, Mean't to say
The real ice maiden "Titanic" needs to Thaw

Well done Brian. I'm sure it'll be mental and brilliant. look forward to hearing it come together.

Reading the spiel that goes with each of the contending projects is like reading a shopping list of art buzzwords.

Throwing in words like "inclusive" and "participants" doesn't make these into "community" projects. Since when did sticking labels on to stuff make the stuff become what the labels say it is?

This is not an effing pipe.

That "real" Ice maiden needs to "Thaw"

whoops, I think I meant "entomologist", and not etymologist. Or maybe I was making a "clever" pun. Probably not though.

I just looked up the word "ephemera" in an online dictionary. As well as meaning things which were produced for short-term uses, it has its origins in the Greek for "short-lived insect". This seems apt in the context of this project, because all these decontextualised, labelled pieces of ephemera are reminiscent of the pinned insects that are found in dusty glass museum cases, each one with its Latin name printed below its preservative-fixed carcass.

Is it interesting, this paradox that takes the short-lived and renders it fixed and fetishised? Is it challenging, this aspic gaze that freezes mid-flight the thing that lives in time, nets it and catologues it and displays it in the contemporary equivalent of a Victorian gentleman-etymologist's zoo?

Not really. It's horribly patronising. All the little bits of captive folksiness, all our "own stories". If they're our own why do we need to give obscene ammounts of money to "artists" to give them meaning? Oh, right enough, we DON'T...

What a load of rubbish and waste of money. This will do art no favours in the eyes of the wider populace..

For Helen & her doctors & nurses:
Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

Big love and congrats to Brian, we'll be there!

Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we've climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and ABC's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees

[Bryan:]
Goodbye my friend it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there

[All:]
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time

[Shane:]
Goodbye Papa please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along

[Mark:]
Goodbye papa it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I'll be there

[All:]
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone

[Nicky:]
Goodbye Michelle my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground

[Shane:]
Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there

[All:]
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone

Yeah well done!