Quotidian

Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University

2020

Quotidian was a seven-channel video installation developed through engagement with the seven people based in Co. Kildare who partake in the national Weather Observation Network. On a daily basis, these off-grid and offline volunteers collect data for Met Éireann from privately installed rainfall stations. Quotidian looked at the volunteers’ systematic record-keeping as a personal rhythm tied to the body and considers their long-term role in the face of computational technologies and eventual automation. In addition, the work enquired into institutional systems of weather recording, meteorology and the planetary climate, while examining ideas of location, ritual and love.

Kindly supported by a Creative Ireland Bursary Award through Kildare County Council Arts Service.