After Light: These Dark Citizens Dublin

Interactive audio tour, based upon the practices of dereliction and vacancy imposed by property hoarding experts, the Irish Government.

“Welcome, coffee explorers! Today, we’re diving into the heart of Dublin’s café scene, where passion meets creativity in every cup. Our journey will lead us to five unforgettable cafés, each a cherished piece of Dublin’s vibrant coffee tapestry. From cozy nooks to buzzing social spots, prepare to sip, savor, and soak in the flavors of the city. Ready to get started?”

ACCESSOR is an interactive artwork created as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2024, by Bill Harris. This work features audio, performers, planted objects and speculative situations for viewers to engage with. It can only be experienced during pre-booked slots. A special thank you goes to the cast of this performance, Michael O'Reilly, Chloe Reynolds, Aindriú O'Deasiún and the producer Dave Kelly. Image by Aisling Phelan. This work was developed at the Fringe LAB as part of the Break New Ground Bursary Award. It has also received mentorship support from Maïa Nunes as part of their Outside Eye project, alongside mentorship support from Tom O'Dea and dramaturgical support from Sean Finnan. This work is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Fingal Artist Support Scheme 2024 and ECHOES.XYZ.

If the Morrígan, the wise crow & great queen in Irish mythology could tell you a story, what would she say and where would she bring you? At IMMA’s Earth Rising, she appears as the guide for the soundwalk Tréimhse* in the formal gardens. The walk plays on the need in these troubled times for what Robin Wall Kimmerer calls Re-story-ation “our relationship with the land cannot heal until we hear its stories. But who will tell them?” Braiding Sweetgrass (2013). Using field recording, sound and storytelling to lay down new pathways the walk places Irish and its close ecological observation at the heart of its storytelling. Reimagining the gardens as Gaeilge the Morrígan brings into focus the need for anti colonial methodologies of care and profound ecological awareness to unsilence and imagine new worlds. Siúlaimid le chéile. We will walk together. Tréimhse grew out of conversations between visual artist Rosie O’Reilly and curator Shannon Carroll on the power of Gaeilge as a cornerstone of a new ecological time. it brings together their research, field recordings and sound by Headfoot (Colm O’Ciosoig, Rosie O’Reilly, Barry Ryan) and words by Prof Michael Cronin (An Gaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht, 2019) Image: The Morrígan, rosie o’reilly *Tréimhse: a period of time

Digital media project

'My Rules For Dublin' by Shane Hegarty As part of Listening to the City II, curated by Michelle Browne, commissioned by Dublin City Council as part of Growing Together for the International Literature Festival Dublin.

Created for IMMA's Earth Rising Eco Festival 2023, the IMMA Timescapes Soundwalk is a hybrid soundwalk / performance resulting from a collaboration between composer and sound artist Robert Coleman, ornithologist Seán Ronayne, and performer and improviser Seán Mac Erlaine. The soundwalk explores the soundscape of IMMA and its relationship stretching from the past, through to the present day and into the future. The focus across these different moments in time allow us to perceive the human impact on the environment which can often go unnoticed due to the slow rates of change. Through eco-acoustic monitoring of bird migrations over IMMA we also explore the geographical connections which become apparent across the globe highlighting the interconnectedness of the Earth's biodiversity. A subsequent panel discussion at 12 noon on Sunday at the People's Pavilion will explore the merging of artistic and scientific practices and what happens when these individuals engage in a process of learning from each other. This will feature in the CMC radio series, ‘We Only Want the Earth’, funded by the BAI through their climate change round for RTÉ lyric fm on the climate emergency and contemporary music and chaired by chaired by Helen Shaw of Athena Media.

Food tour around the Dublin City Centre. I recommend doing the walk in this order, but any configuration will work (Heartbreak Social Club -> J2 Sushi -> Han Sung -> Pocha -> Mama's Revenge). The walk is supposed to help you make up your mind on what you want to eat that day but it's also suitable to try them all in the same day, as a form of a testing experience. So you can walk through all of them or listen to only the ones that interest you by checking the location title of each place, with their name and kind of cuisine they do, so it's nice and easy for you. Enjoy!