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Peripheries
Two-channel HD video projection, audio
9 minutes 25 seconds 
2017
TACTICAL MAGIC, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2019, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway,  installation view (top image), courtesy of Jonathan Sammon

At Some Distance in the Direction Indicated, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny installation view (middle + bottom image), 2018 
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Peripheries explores advancements in technological aids that connect the present and the foreseeable future. The video opens with 41 significant projected storms predicted to affect Ireland between the years 2040 - 2060, and continues on to profile the geographical schedule of events associated with 6 separate forecasted storms. The storm projections in the artwork are based on the output of an ensemble of high-resolution climate models. These models simulate changes in the atmosphere and oceans, as greenhouse gases - such as CO2 - increase and are expressed in terms of Global Positioning System datasets. The work inquires into contemporary concerns about long-term futures and alludes to the ancient world’s arbiter of truth, the Oracle. 

Kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland’s Project Award (2017).
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