
TWENTY FIRST
(2015)
A utopian community art project commissioned by the Dublin Fringe Festival for their twenty first birthday, produced and facilitated by Dan Colley.
Fringe Lab Rats are a collective of twenty-one year old artists who were’
invited by Dublin Fringe Festival to come together and disrupt and
upend the usual bounds of the festival, and to celebrate their
twenty firsts together.
TWENTY FIRST was their offering.
For 6 days they lived and worked in a human sized lab rat cage.
This rat cage was a utopia – a community, with no internet or phones
with a ball pool and a big dinner table, with no responsibilities
except to tell the stories of Dublin’s twenty-one year olds.
And not to be a dick.
Produced by Fringe Lab Rats in association with Tiger Dublin Fringe
Developed at Fringe Lab
– Creative + Production Team
Producer and Facilitator Dan Colley
Designer + Production Manager Ferdia Cathil
Stage Manager Conor O’Rourke
Catering Dublin Pop Up
Video Production Jonathan Ho
Lab Rats/Artists :
Resident Rats:
Arianne Hutch
Jack Nolan
James Ireland
Jonathan Ho
Grainne Blumenthal
Sadie Devane
Christina Roche
Meeting Times Coordinator Tiarnán Fallon Verbruggen
Meeting Times Tour Guide Líadan Ní Chearbhaill
Meeting Times Tour Guide Gillian Cooper
Meeting Times Tour Guide Mollie Molumby
Meeting Times Tour Guide Sean Costello
Meeting Times Tour Guide Déarbhla Whelehan
Meeting Times Tour Guide Katie O’Byrne
Meeting Times Tour Guide Lucy Johnson


Photo + Video by Jonathan Ho