Future Breath
Science Gallery Dublin
December 12th - 15th 2018
Siobhan McDonald
'The trees are murmuring to one another'
Lungs
Inhale + exhale
Trinity College Dublin, Oregon maple trees
Future Breath
Science Gallery Dublin
Exhibition by Siobhan McDonald
opens 12th December 2018 at 6.30 pm
To be launched by Ann Mulrooney, Director Science Gallery Dublin. Followed by a short talk by Jenny McElwain, Professor of Botany (1711), School of Natural Sciences.
No booking required, all welcome.
Future Breath is an evolving work about the importance of the air we breathe and the unmistakable threat to plants and nature we face in the wake of climate change. Commissioned by the Trinity Creative Challenge Award, the artist embarks on a journey to explore the notion of breath for an artwork constructed for Science Gallery Dublin in collaboration with Trinity College Herbarium, The Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences.
For this project McDonald brings together the stories of two recently felled Oregon Maple (sister) trees that hold memories of significant events and histories at the heart of Trinity College Dublin. The installation at the Science Gallery Dublin suggests a journey through the grounds of Trinity like a section through its anatomy.
Future Breath is a multi-part slide installation that weaves together narratives of studies in human breath, medicine and plant remedies from Trinity’s archives, and the idea of coexistence in a world moved by invisible networks. The installation also comprises a series of paintings that seeks to capture the innate environment-sensing capacity of plants. The paintings represent an alternative archive of new knowledge made by the toxic pollutants that permeate our city.
Deepest thanks to Christopher Ash (collaborator on the film and slide projection), and David Stalling (collaborator on the sound piece).
Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday. The show runs until 15th December at 5 pm Saturday 12 pm to 6 pm.
www.siobhanmcdonald.com
100 Breaths
50 humans + 50 plants
October 15th 2018
Siobhan McDonald
Collecting Breath: humans, plants + roots
OPEN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE in an art project:
Breath recording (humans) Monday 15 October, 1pm – 5:00pm
Trinity College Herbarium, The Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences
Drop in to participate - no need to book
The first 50 to arrive on the day will be recorded
Collecting Breath
‘To Breathe’ Cobweb, dust, thread and seed. Siobhan McDonald 2018
Confronted by the heart-breaking facts of how carbon trapped in our atmosphere is destroying our planet. How can an artist respond?
Artist Siobhan McDonald is undertaking research in collaboration with the School of Botany to create an evolving work about the importance of the air we breathe and the unmistakable threat to plants and nature we face in the wake of climate change. Breath, after all, is a symbiosis between man and environment, man, and plants. In this new work, Future Breath, the artist embarks on a journey to explore the notion of breath for an artwork she is constructing for The Trinity Creative Award, which she received earlier this year Trinity Creative Award: Future Breath
Siobhan McDonald is developing this project through the idea of coexistence in a world moved by invisible networks. Future Breath uses the grounds of Trinity College as a point of departure that connects the breathing pores and DNA of plants to the body that is Trinity College. The final installation will trigger a journey through the grounds of TCD like a section through its anatomy.
HUMAN BREATH – 50 humans phase 1
For this first phase of the project join us to participate in this event. Sound artist David Stalling is collaborating with Siobhan McDonald on the sound component for the installation. He will record your breath between 1pm – 5:00pm at Trinity College Herbarium, The Botany Department. The sound of your inhale and exhale will be implemented into a sound piece for a major art work for the Future Breath project. The work will be performed on the grounds of TCD on the 12th December 2018. (Venue to be announced.)
PLANT BREATH – 50 plants phase 2
From the Physic Garden + roots from 2 felled Oregon Maple trees
On the same day Siobhan McDonald and David Stalling will also make recordings in off site locations from:
- Root systems from the roots of two felled Oregon Maple, sister trees in front square.
- 50 plants from the Physic Garden
Performance of Pasolini's Salo Redubbed
October 26th 2018
Dylan Tighe
Performance will take place in the Dance Studio of the Samuel Beckett Centre.
Tickets available on Eventbrite
ART, SCIENCE & FOOD FUTURES—Genomic Gastronomy presents: endophyte.club
June 19th 2018
Join the Center for Genomic Gastronomy for a lecture and Q&A session about their research into plant and microbial Food Futures: Endophyte Club.
Tickets available from Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-science-food-futuresgenomic-gastronomy-presents-endophyteclub-tickets-46968561231#
Genomic Gastronomy
June 2nd 2017- The Volunteers
Large Scale drawing on view in the Front Square of Trinity College Dublin on House 2, from June 6th 2017
Joe Caslin
April 6th, 7th & 11th- RARE ENDOPHYTE COLLECTORS CLUB (R.E.C.C.)
Genomic Gastronomy
April 6th, 7th & 11th, 2017
Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
The Rare Endophyte Collectors Club is a hobbyist-led research initiative whose goal is to locate and identify endophytes from local plants. At the Rare Endophyte Collectors Club (RECC) biological hobbyists meet to identify, discuss and trade information about new, rare and hard to access microorganisms. The race is on: who will get to unlock, collect and share the secrets of the microbiome era?
RECC is a project by the artist group the Center for Genomic Gastronomy and was supported by the Trinity Creative Challenge Award and builds off the research and with the support of Dr. Brian R. Murphy MRSB and other members of the Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Over the last year chapters of the club have been formed in Dublin, Bangalore, Madrid and Oakland. Come visit us in the Trinity Long Room Hub as we put our tools, methods and findings on display. Leading up to, and during TRINITY WEEK members of the Dublin chapter of the Endophyte Club will be available to answer questions and describe their work in the lobby of the Trinity Long Room Hub at the following times:
— Thursday, April 6th (10:00-16:00)
— Friday, April 7th (10:00 - 13:00)
— Tuesday, April 11th (10:00 - 16:00)
More information about the artists: http://genomicgastronomy.com/
More information about the clubs: http://www.endophyte.club/
More information about the Trinity Creative Challenge Award: https://www.tcd.ie/trinity-creative/
April 9-13th 2017- Continuance
Clare Lymer
April 9th-13th, 2017
Science Gallery Dublin, Trinity College Dublin
Continuance- an installation of video works exploring the human experience of isolation suffered by tuberculosis patients
Produced in Collaboration with:
- Joseph Keane, Professor in Respiratory Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
- Emer Hackett, PhD Fellow, School of Biochemistry & Immunology, Trinity College Dublin
- Rachael Dease, music and sound design
- Brian Kenny, projection design, Lightscape Visuals
Supported by: Trinity College Dublin, The Science Gallery, The Arts Council Ireland
April 11th& 12th 2017- The Music of Silence-Its Interpretation and Performance
Adrian Tien and Richard Duckworth
April 11th & 12th, 2016.
Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
The Music of Silence
Can silence be musical? Putting this question differently, can music exist when there is silence? The answer to this question depends on what "silence" really means and how it is interpreted culturally and musically. Different cultures respond to this question differently. The Trinity Centre for Asian Studies and the Department of Music collaborate for the first time in this exciting event, exploring the role of silence in music like it has never been done before. It sets out to show that true silence in the sense of a "complete absence of sound" does not exist and, using Chinese, Japanese, Korean as well as Western music (classical and contemporary) as examples in performance, we will demonstrate that different musical traditions have different culture-unique interpretations for something like silence. Through a series of high-quality and original musical performances by musicians from these cultures, we will explore the central theme of silence, or something like silence—how silence is created, controlled, destroyed, present at the heart of cacophony, ephemeral, and ontologically problematic, given its inaudibility.
Tuesday 11 April 2017
•1:30pm – 2pm: Launch
•2pm – 3pm: Music of Silence: Its Interpretation and Performance (opening remarks by Profs. Adrian Tien and Richard Duckworth)
•3pm – 4:30pm: Sound and Silence: John Cage and Beyond (American composer and flautist Susan Stenger, with Katherine Waugh)
•5pm – 6pm: In one breath silence, become the Buddha! (Irish shakuhachi performer Philip Horan)
•6:30 – 8pm: ‘No sound is better than any sound at this time’ (Pipa performer Hua Xia and guzheng performer Liling Huang, from Belgium)
Wednesday 12 April 2017
•2:30pm – 4pm: Bamboo in the wind: movement and stillness of the Taegŭm flute (Korean taegŭm performer, Hyelim Kim)
•4:30pm – 6pm: Tryptych, Blue Code (Analog On synthesizer set – Richard Duckworth and Shauna Caffrey + guests)
•6:30pm – 8pm: “Silence” in Gems of Piano Music (pianist Adrian Tien from the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies)
Edmund Burke Theatre, Level 1, Arts Building, Trinity College
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE: tcas@tcd.ie
Prof. Adrian Tien (tiena@tcd.ie), Trinity Centre for Asian Studies
Prof. Richard Duckworth (duckwor@tcd.ie), Department of Music
April 26th- Trinity Creative Artists Present as part of Constellations Series
Constellations Series
This event will feature a selection of artists who participated in the Trinity Creative Challenge who will discuss their projects and their creative process.
With Clare Lymer, Adrian Tien & Richard Duckworth, Enda Bates and Joe Caslin.
6:30pm, April 26th 2017
Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Register interest through Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/trinity-creative-challenge-the-constellations-series-registration-33823320462?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=estw&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing
May 5th 2017- Beckett's First Play
Dead Centre
A presentation of research by Dead Centre
Friday, 5 May 2017, 4:30 PM
Arts Technology Research Laboratory (ATRL)
In the devastated Paris of 1947, Samuel Beckett wrote Eleutheria, his first completed play, which has never been produced. Beckett went on to exclude this work from his own canon, and it was not published until 1995 (to great controversy). The rights to perform the play have never been granted.
The play is invisible.
Following on from Chekhov's First Play, Dead Centre continue their investigation into the first plays of great writers. In response to Eleutheria they have been researching how not to do a play.
Dead Centre presents this work in collaboration with the School of Creative Arts and the Centre for Beckett Studies, with the kind support of all those at ATRL.
*Limited seating available*: BOOK NOW AT: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/becketts-first-play-by-dead-centre-trinity-creative-challenge-tickets-34271123854
Trinity Creative Challenge 2016 - Winners Announced
Trinity Creative Challenge is a key initiative of Trinity Creative. Sponsored by the Provost of the University, this funding award aims to foster the development of ambitious and innovative interdisciplinary projects and works, ideally involving a collaboration with, or within, Trinity College Dublin. The award is open to projects and ideas with a focus on interdisciplinary creative arts practices across a wide range of forms including performance, visual art, music, film, design, new media, animation, gaming and creative technologies. We are open to diverse approaches, new ideas and external collaborations. Projects linking creative arts, science and technology are especially welcome, as are those that are likely to catalyse new initiatives and ventures.
Five proposals were selected to share the award fund of €40,000. All five winning applicants are presenting new works in Trinity in April 2017.