An aesthetic display was created from Judith Bündgens' and Florence Tsague's project of collecting Dublin images. Judith photographed sculptures of famous personages, Viking statues, signs, and landscape scenes, which the she and Florence cut out at home. They framed their collage with the unforgettable Dublin doors. "Dublin Images" is still on display near AR-D 6104 - admission free!
Here are some of Florence's thoughts on the value to her of this project, as well as the excursion and Fair in general:
Florence Tsague-Assopgoum
The works
of Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and other writers from Ireland have for
a long time been topics at school in Cameroon, where I come from. Like
with Guinness, many of my classmates and I had a great passion and admiration
for these authors but without asking ourselves about their origin. Mostly
because the books were translated into French, we even assimilated them
to French writers. (Perhaps also because after two years in prison, Wilde
left England for France). After the excursion to Dublin this semester
by some of my fellow students, I was fascinated by the pictures they brought
had taken, for example the statues of Wilde as a historical figure of
Ireland. And the Irish Fair has helped me to find out more about the history
of Wilde, Swift and James Joyce, as this was necessary in order to complete
the picture board Judith and I were assembling. His quotation, "The public
have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth
knowing" in 'Soul of man under socialism' not only shows that he was a
socialist and socialite, but also tells us to pay attention to worthwhile
things or events in life.
Gulliver's Travels, one of the famous books by Jonathan Swift, is the
tale of a passionate British traveller, Captain Gulliver, who reaches
an island with an unbelievable way of life - an island, the rules and
thoughts of which thoughts have nothing to do with those of the ordinary
world.
The Fair at the University has offered me the occasion to discover not
only Irish landscape, culture, music, performing arts and the "craic"
or Irish fun, but also to learn more about achievements and 'Irishness'
of Ireland's writers.
