installation

The You That Is In It is an installation comprising works on paper and an audio walking tour on exhibit at the Irish Museum of Modern Art until March 2009. I was commissioned to create this piece by IMMA and the curator Ian Russell, who was working on behalf of the World Archaeological Congress to curate a contemporary visual arts programme entitled Abhar agus Meon. You can read more about the programme here.
The You That Is In It attempted to excavate the hidden histories of the Royal Hospital of Kilmainham, which houses the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and explore notions of artistic process through the medium of a short walk leading participants out of the gallery space into the surrounds of the gallery. I created the piece in collaboration with the sound artist Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh. Each participant is given a work on paper I illustrated during the process of creating the tour, which they fold into a pyramid shape and hold throughout the walk, as a talisman of their journey.

You can listen to the tour by clicking below, but I recommend listening to it in the gallery itself, where the invigilator will lend you your very own shiny ipod with which to do so.

As part of my Msc in Multimedia Systems I created this installation along with four team mates. They were Alex Synge, Alex Hillel, Tarig Elomari and Ciaran Hickey.

PlaySkip was an installation consisting of mounds of obsolete technology, old record players, monitors, train sets, flowers, rocks, beads, seashells, currency and other objects. Almost all of the content of the installation was collected for free using services such as Freecycle, dug out of skips, borrowed or saved from being discarded.

People were invited to enjoy the content and interact with parts in order to control visuals on the monitors.

The concept is based on the notion that technological design is making objects increasingly less fathomable to people. Where a broken cassette tape might have been fixed by a little finger twisting the tape spool, when an ipod is not working you send it away in a van to be fixed and returned to you. This installation is meant as a suggestion that systems underlie everything that we encounter, both natural and man made, and it is our responsibility to think about them. If technology design continues to so neatly package the objects we use, will we accept their operation as naturally as we do the systems that cause plants to grow, or planets to rotate?

Bord Dulra was a piece I created as part of the exhibition Cases of Curiosity curated by Doireann Larkin and exhibited at The Joy Gallery in October 2008. The piece was accompanied by a text, with each object inside the drawer corresponding to a part of the story told in words. The drawer hung in the gallery a couple of feet from the ground suspended by yellow fishing wire.

This video piece was commissioned for the Lithuania CAC or Contemporary Arts Centre as part of An Exhibition in Five Chapters, a showcase of contemporary Irish artists responding to Lithuanian society in ireland. This is a still from the video piece I made, which was composed of hundreds of single photographs, creating a stop motion montage. The video was projected on a gallery wall facing a window onto the street outside, suggesting a shop window designed to entice viewers.