1815 Football Club
PLAY; A Living Archive of Urban Football
11 July – 9 August 2024 1815 F.C. is a DIY community Football Club based in Dublin that plays on a different free public pitch around the island of Ireland every week. To name a few of the many activities over its 7 years of existence; the club has devised inclusive strategies for matches, played on public pitches across Ireland, helped found new DIY Community Clubs in Belfast, Cork and Galway, lobbied for public space against developers, renamed public parks as an act of solidarity and protest, collaborated with artists, musicians and organisations such as Dublin Digital Radio and CATU, created numerous publications, shirts and club ephemera.
PLAY; A Living Archive of Urban Football is a collaboration between 1815 F.C. players, coordinators and collaborators — Anna Heisterkamp, Gavin Fahy and STARLING. The project sees 1815. F.C respond to pieces of community football history, reimagining them through new and commissioned works. The exhibition includes work by Kevin Judge, Pat Curran and 1815 F.C alongside archival film footage.
List of works;
Fatima 5-a-side, Pat Curran, 2021, Oil on PVC.
Before Football, Kevin Judge, 2024, Oil on canvas.
O’Devaney Gardens Football 1981 & Michael Mallin Park Football 2024, Various*, 2024, Two-channel video with sound.
Goal Post Study, Sean O’Rourke, 2017, Acrylic, emulsion, brick gravel and wallpaper on canvas.
O’Devaney Gardens Football Pitch 2019, Shot by Johnnie Lyons for the Living Archive of Urban Football, 2019, Digital print on paper.