Dun Laoghaire - The Lighthouse
This work is located at Moran Park (Lower Section) adjacent to the Lexicon and the old Harbour Masters House, now renamed Moran Park House. This area is an open green space. Please be mindful of your footing and other members of the public.
About the work
ARTIST: RICHARD CARR
Collaborators: Basciville and Sasha Terfous. Work originally commissioned by Dani Gill for The Lighthouse Project Ireland
P45 is a public sound art and listening project which focuses on collaboration, communication, and community. In the United Kingdom, and formerly the Republic of Ireland, a P45 is the reference code of a document which is usually issued when an employee is leaving work. It is commonly used by the public as a metonym for 'termination of employment' or for when one finds themselves 'in-between jobs'. With this in mind, P45 usually manifests to enable Richard and communities of place/interest to work together on the development of a new project.
For Dun Laoghaire, Richard has re-composed and earlier work which was originally commissioned by Dani Gill for The Lighthouse Project Ireland. This collaborative and site-adaptive work was developed by Basciville, Richard Carr, and Sasha Terfous. It was made during a short working period at Hook Lighthouse, Ireland (The oldest, intact, operational lighthouse in the world) where the artists responded to the coastline of Hook head in Co. Wexford. A site first developed by Brittonic Priest and Pilgrim, St. Dubhán, later developed by William Marshall (1st Earl of Pembroke), and an important navigational point illuminating many international stories of historic sailors, fishermen, and other visitors between Ireland, UK, and mainland Europe.
The resulting work aims to give a personal, poetic voice to the landscape, while exploring these trans-national trading/settlement/communication sites such as Hook Head, Ireland, Fisherinsel, Berlin, Titanic Slipways, Sailortown, Belfast and now adjacent to the old Harbour Masters House, Dún Laoghaire. A building of national significance and is recorded as being the location of the first wireless transmission by Guglielmo Marconi on 20th July 1898.
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