'The lecture is researched, created and delivered by Ingrid Lyons and takes the form of a studio (laptop) visit/tour'

This event is part of a on-going research project by Frank Wassar.

https://www.thevirtuallectures.com

Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

various locations around Galway

Contributors to honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise include: Áine O’Hara, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Bog Cottage, Bridget O'Gorman, Edward Lawrenson & Pia Borg, Holly Márie Parnell, Jamila Prowse, Jenny Brady, Leila Hekmat, Nat Raha, P. Staff, Paul Roy, Philipp Gufler, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Sarah Browne and Sean Burns.

Artists Donegal: Tim Stampton, Cliodhna Timoney, Cathal McGinley

Artists Roe Valley: Bernie McGill, Nicola Nemec, Andrea Spencer

I unfortunately couldn't make this weekend but I was particularly interested in the work of Cathal McGinley. McGinley's event titled 'Meitheal Líniochta (Drawing ‘Work Team’)' aimed to create a collaborative drawing or Meitheal Líniochta. The idea of ‘Meitheal’ or ‘work team ’as it is the Irish term that denotes a community collective working towards a common goal, an act of neighbourly help and cooperation. This social concept is embedded in our Irish consciousness and McGinley utilises this approach not just as an instinctive methodology for his practice but also as a way to include and engage with both his own community and the audience. This activity will be accompanied by a live fiddle player.

The lyric theatre in Belfast held this event for one night.

https://www.ents24.com/belfast-events/lyric-theatre/port/6908870

Attending this event aided my research into long-term writing projects. McArdle spent most of his residency writing songs, story songs, love songs to the sea.

Erskine writes, "multiple voices; multiple narratives; multiple perspectives: the polyphonic. Whether it’s simultaneous or sequenced, whether it’s in visual art, text or sound, let’s celebrate polyphony in all its complexity and contrariness. Let’s explore this non-hierarchical, democratic mode which allows for plurality of expression and response. The polyphonic, a challenge to the controlling, totalising ‘I'."

I purchased a few textie things

• Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields & Gardens Edited by Karen E.Till (Maynooth University Department of Geography

• Positive Blow Lauren Gault

• Protecting Sea Creature Consciousness onto the Moon (collection of 13 handmade zines made by participants in workshop) Sarah Edmondson & Jess Raymon

• Without Reduction -The Happy Hypocrite-

• Take Hold. Edited by Rachel Botha

• Shy Radicals The Antisystemic Politics Of The Militant Introvert Hamja Ahsan

• The Hidden Green NCAD

  
  

One section of the exhibition had architectural maps that were concealed/hidden/tucked behind sheets of clear glass.

Exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery 'transforms the gallery into a testing ground for the exploration of social relations, group dynamics and associated anxieties. The installation, including sculpture, drawing and wearables, reflects on the desires and tensions experienced between private thought and public behaviour, feelings of isolation and belonging, connectivity and relating, distraction and attending and the fragile state between comfort and discomfort. Rhona Byrne will present her new project, Huddlewear, a series of wearable artworks/social clothing developed by the artist during an artists residency at Facebook HQ Dublin.

To take part in this artwork there has to be a level of communication, understanding and mutuality for both individuals as it is a wearable sculpture. This is an interactive performative work.

There are two projects of Biemann that I believe reference my 'reflections to sit with doc' acoustic ocean (2018) and Devenir Universidad (2019-2022).

acoustic ocean

'Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway, Acoustic Ocean sets out to explore the sonic ecology of marine life. The scientist as an explorer and important mediator of the contemporary understanding of our planetary ecosystems is a central figure in this video. She makes her appearance in the person of a Sami biologist-diver (indigenous of northern Scandinavia) who deploys all sorts of hydrophones, parabolic mics and recording devices to sense the submarine space for acoustic and other biological forms of expression.'

Devenir Universidad

'The quechua speaking Inga people of Colombia living in the ecologically rich zone between the Amazonian lowlands and the Andes, invited me to co-create of their most ambitious project, an Indigenous University. The aim is to create an institution for research and higher learning toward life-sustaining ecological cohabitation in the Andean-Amazonian region.'

Mapping Below the Waterline uses feminist economists JK Gibson-Graham’s metaphor of the ​“Economy As An Iceberg” as a way to visualise the diverse, multiple economies that make up our world https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-handbook-of-diverse-economies-9781788119955.html

There is a beautiful reflection by Rutherford in Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 4. https://frame-finland.fi/en/resources/rehearsing-hospitalities-companion-4/

The Good Hatchery is an experimental project that sets out to challenge the norms for the production and presentation of contemporary art in Ireland today.An artist-led initiative and space based in the remote bog lands of North Offaly. 'We are committed to the support of artists in the production of high quality progressive art works. We promote an ethos of DIY and sustainability that takes advantage the spread of information and online learning opportunities enabled by our global age. TGH, its development and work are all closely aligned with a broad understanding of what resource is.'

'The show features different languages and techniques used by the artist, such as performance videos, drawings and ceramic works, all of which have the "river" as their starting point. Starting from indigenous worldviews in South America and the intervention of hydroelectric projects in riverbeds. The exhibition presents stories of connection and defence of rivers, from the Mapuche people to the connections with indigenous peoples in the Amazon'

boredomresearch (Cavan Burren and the Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Global Geopark)

William Bock (North shore of the Shannon Estuary)

Tania Candiani (Costal town of Glin)

Nathan O’Donnell (Lough Derg)

Residences as time to research and develop concept, embedded yourself and your practice into the local community, build relationships.

In addition, a temporary sonic event will be held each day at high and low tides to mark the ebb and flow of the River Foyle.

~Tide time research

~Ebb and flow research

'The project is an experimental collaboration around the seemingly quotidian phenomenon of weather and the theme of weathering as an embodied experience. We acknowledge Indigenous Australians’ unfathomable weathering of settler invasion and much more through time, and that land & water sovereignty were never ceded.'

—Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy

~ references essay 'Hydrofeminism' to kind of thinking

~ membrane logic : 'from the perspective of watery embodiment, connection happens via the traversal of water across or through only partially permeable membranes. In an ocularcentric culture, some of these membranes—human skin, for example—give the illusion of impermeability, which is belied by the fact that we perspire, drink, leak, pee, bleed, and so on'

~ ecotonal thinking: Ecotones are transition areas between two adjacent ecosystems. They might be considered markers of connection and/or separation, but in ecological terms, they are zones of fecundity, creativity, transformation, multiplication, divergence, and reassembly. Estuaries, tidal zones, and wetlands, for example, are all liminal spaces (link research on Dundalk estuary)

'How can people feel that they can have agency as a collective body yet? It is a process of becoming, a balancing act between individual and the collective needs. If we think of agency only as a collective undertaking, then we forget the step of how two or more people actually become a collective.

What is critical to that is being able to let go of some of your own subjectivity, to put your subjectivity in order to approach other kinds of agencies and look at the space that is in between, in order to find common ground with other person.'

I am particularly interested in this series of work as it is largely based Pisano's performative writing practice, 'of formulating and reformulating of ideas-the works involved a circulation and exchange of language, ideas and forms; A transfer from one work to another often involving a change of status, a reflection within a different context or a further elaboration on an idea.'

The term 'object' can shape-shift into any guise. Writing is a key method within my practice but it is an area I struggle to give form to. For example, how something sculptural can be transformed into a glossary.

I thought how the term MAPPING was used here was key to understand or coming to an understanding of Pisano's practice. That the artworks can inhabit any form and MAP out the same narrative but through a different kind of language.

• What form will it take within the discussion?

Ahmed is challenging how we perceive feminist theory, to do this she starts by situating the word theory 'the word theory has a lot of capital' to asks how the word theory itself is distributed; 'how some materials are understood as theory and not others.'

As a student of theory Ahmed describes how 'theory is used to refer to a rather narrow body of work. Some work becomes theory because it refers to other work that is know as theory.'

taraxos is an ongoing project by Sophia Al-Maria at Serpentine inspired by the dandelion.

'Sophia Al-Maria considers the dandelion an emblem of freedom and resistance, as each seed has the potential to become an agent of resilience and change. Inspired by the life cycle and geometry of the dandelion (taraxacum officinale), the sculpture taraxos is a model for understanding and listening to the world.

taraxos is a meditative place for anyone to slow down time for themselves. Visitors can sit beneath and stand amongst a constellation of 12 metal achenes, which take the form of futuristic dandelion ‘seeds’, and listen to the sculpture. Activated by the wind, the sculpture can also be'

1)   To investigate how Art Writing might function as an artistic practice and methodology, and to devise new practice-based strategies to do so.

2)   To what extent can a floating methodology be used as a ‘lens’ to examine the relationship between the non-human?

3)   To examine the concept and practice of ‘floating’ within ‘archipelagic’ thinking

I stumbled upon this paper and wasn't very familiar with Flusser's work, his essayistic and poetic style of writing can be speculative, he is often described as a 'poet-philosopher'

Relating to Flusser's stylistic approach to presenting arguments, it references how I think and approach writing about floating. That things are always in a state of flux, streams of changing rambles. It is dream-like, and the process of floating can even in itself be dream-like, because there is a point of letting go and closing down that fight or fight response.