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Disrupt Disability Arts Festival

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is a vibrant celebration of disability art, curated by and for the disability community. The festival had its inaugural year in 2024 and completed it’s third iteration earlier this year. Disrupt continues to grow as a platform for disability-led artistic expression. The festival includes theatre, dance, literature-based […]

Distinct

Image of an artwork by Ruth Le Gear. An iridescent orb floats on a black background. Blue, purple and mauve colours swirl across its glasslike surface. The image resembles that of a planet in deep space.

Distinct 8 March – 20 April 2024 Project Arts Centre Cecilia Bullo, Yvonne Condon, Richard Forrest, Michelle Hall, Vera Klute, Ruth Le Gear, Jane McCormack, David Parnell, Aisling Reina, Katherine Sankey, Suzanne Walsh. ‘Distinct’ was presented by Project Art Centre. An exhibition curated by AlanJames Burns that explores the climate crisis through the perspective of […]

The Waking Walls

The ruin of a round stone castle sits on a tiny island on a lake, the island is just big enough for the tower. One side of the tower has crumbled away. Trees surround the island and disappear into the water, birds fly across the sky. The reflection of the tower is clearly seen in the still water, creating a mirror image. The weather is grey and foggy obscuring the boundary between the water and the sky.

A wholly distinct experience that uniquely draws upon the Irish traditions of lamenting and caoineadh/ keening to express emotions of ecological and climate grief felt due to lost heritage and ecology associated with climate change.

Our Place

Our Place Our Place is a long term socially engaged art project that champions the human rights of people living with intellectual disabilities, led by Artists AlanJames Burns and Sinéad McCann in collaboration with Saint John of God Liffey Services. The project creates access to creative expression, cultural spaces and employment in the cultural sector.  […]

Silicone Synapse

Three different scales of artificial large free-swimming creatures similar to that of a jellyfish. The centre jellyfish is the largest in the frame. The jellyfish creatures hover, with its umbrella-shaped encasing resembling a metallic pulsing brain with a jutting out tentacle to its side. The trailing tentacles are depicted as metallic legs with fragments of amber light bouncing on the tentacles. The background is jet black.

Silicon Synapse ‘Silicon Synapse’ is an immersive Virtual Reality and psycho-acoustic experience that will take you on a simulated journey into the personified mind of ‘Technology’. Listening to the inner dialogue of ‘Technology’s’ mind as it replays both sides of a lovers’ quarrel. ‘Technology’ and its life partner ‘Nature’ argue about the sustainability of their […]

Entirely hollow aside from the dark

The photograph of Smugglers Cave,Portrane, Co.Dublin. The image depicts the immersiveness of being inside a cave.The opening of the cave mouth is facing outwards to the sea. The powerful tide is coming in, filling the entire entrance. The light of the sky bounces off the waves and begins to creep into the heart of the cavern.

Entirely hollow aside from the dark is an immersive 19-32 channel psychoacoustic sound event taking place inside ancient natural auditoriums carved into the underbelly of earth’s crust. Using the cave as a physical metaphor for the mind, the cavern personifies the consciousness of Earth as she struggles with her worsening mental health brought on by […]

Caoineadh Dúlra

A dark image of intertwined foliage. A mixture of plants typically found in an Irish hedgerow, including ivy, brambles and moss.

Caoineadh Dúlra is a groundbreaking series of events, in conjunction with artist AlanJames Burns’s ambitious theatrical project The Waking Walls (8th & 9th September 2023).

Foram

Foram 10 – 17 November 2024 National Maritime Museum of Ireland We all inhabit a vast, interconnected ecosystem, where every being – no matter how big or small – plays a vital role in fostering a harmonious world. Among these, Planktonic Foraminifera, or Forams, are tiny microscopic organisms with an outsized importance. These tiny beings […]

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