a place of their own is an independent art and spatial research practice founded by Paula McCloskey and Sam Vardy in 2010.
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Border Fictions
A Border Counter-Cartography
Amid the Air and Earth
Myths for a Wetlands Imaginary
Wet / Land / Dwellers
Stories of the Air / Spéirscéalta
Atmospheric States
Self-Organisation Against Injustice
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The Territories of Eile
The Territories of Eile includes a series of site-responsive performances and a digital film triptych (3m 56 sec, on loop).
Performances were enacted at Lough Melvin and the River Erne, both through which the border runs, a derelict former Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks on the border, and in the roads, fields and hedgerows of the borderlands, across counties Leitrim and Cavan in the Irish Republic and County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The film’s three-parts juxtapose manipulated and abstracted versions of the performances with a loop of the mating ritual of a White Cryptic butterfly, and archive footage from the town of Belleek where some of the performances took place.
Film
Territories of Eile ︎︎︎
Eile / Lobster ︎︎︎
Eile / Bog ︎︎︎
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