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.
