What one leaves behind. I guess a lot of stuff. If over the last few years you have passed Bloom’s Lane, just across the Millennium Bridge on the north side of the River Liffey, you may have noticed a familiar figure. Sometimes standing on the bridge, other times reading from a bundle of newspapers and … Read more
I feel Irish today, No decent future, maybe just money and a new distillery The new hotel to fuck my view in Dublin 8 is empty The enormous student residence is as windy as a Hong Kong typhoon. And empty like my pockets. How is it possible to live without depression in Dublin 8? Rents … Read more
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”38″ gal_title=”Featured Artist of the Month: Hector Castells”] These poems belong to the Puddle Heroes series, by the hectic fish. Puddle heroes is a collection of pictures of puddles with people on it, people not necessarily drowned as much as free floating They are the icons of all the rhymes that follow. All … Read more
It’s a dark, stormy night in the middle of January, 2016 and I am listening to gale force winds slam on the tin roof overhead. We are in a small fishing cottage in Donegal, on one of the most remote headlands in the country. There is no electricity, the closest neighbour is a twenty minute … Read more
Salarium 230 million BCE – Ongoing – We are salted by the salt of this palace The Zechstein Sea is an ancient body of salt water, now existing as a geological seam of salt extending across Northern Europe from Ireland to Russia. As the seam progresses eastwards and deepens into what was a body of … Read more
Nothing is born alone. We all come from somewhere and are the result of thousands and thousands of bonds over time. To be an explorer of nature is to discover those webs, networks, circuits and fluids. And reconnect with the subtle dimensions of nature, looking over those multiple and diverse universes of the organic kingdoms. … Read more
Stone can only offer you its stillness, The fact of its materiality. Its quiet unobtrusive existence that just is. It will never clamour for your attention. It could never hope to gain it anyway, competing with the hyper-stimulating technological landscape in which we dwell. As an artform scultpture has none of the bells and whistles … Read more
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”20″ gal_title=”Featured Artist of the Month: Moira Tierney”] The beach is one of the few places you’re going to see New Yorkers immobile, supine, sleeping in the sun … everyone piles onto the F train to Coney Island, or the Q to Brighton Beach, or the A to the Rockaways, with the coolers … Read more
All our biographies, if they went back far enough, would begin by explaining how our ancestors came to be more or less enslaved, and to what degree we have become free of this inheritance. Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity (London, 1995), p.7 We are facing a world in a state of perpetual conflict, … Read more
Ibrahim Mahama grew up in Tamale, north Ghana, where he was in daily contact with objects and materials that developed a double meaning for him. His artwork began as a collage and patchwork of items surrounding his daily life, without being explicitly political. Out of his own lived experiences he re-contextualises spaces and working processes, … Read more