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a place of their own https://aplaceoftheirown.org a place of their own Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:33:52 +0000 https://aplaceoftheirown.org en Eile (intro) https://aplaceoftheirown.org/Eile-intro Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:33:51 +0000 a place of their own https://aplaceoftheirown.org/Eile-intro Eile <img width="5520" height="4144" width_o="5520" height_o="4144" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed08d0f2001562229d8f8f5da9e47c7ad8f9026e5d4a39a9506a3a92af9d203e/coat-bog.JPG" data-mid="188429952" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed08d0f2001562229d8f8f5da9e47c7ad8f9026e5d4a39a9506a3a92af9d203e/coat-bog.JPG" /> Eile (meaning Other in Irish) is a long-term, trans-disciplinary art and spatial practice that critically intervenes in the political, spatial, subjective and ecological spaces of the UK state border on the island of Ireland.  It centres on the titular figure Eile, who is imagined as an otherworldly creature of the border. Eile is a transmuter; a shapeshifter; a lobster, a banshee, a gush of wind, who moves in and across the border(lands) through time and space. Through practices of performance, film, sculpture, sound and poetry, Eile generates and explores speculative ecologies; their creatures, flora, fauna and folklore, as a distinct form of fictioning, which we call Border-Fictioning. In so doing, Eile generates and elucidates alternative imaginaries and ontologies of the border in Ireland. Films Territories of Eile ︎︎︎ Eile / Lobster ︎︎︎ Eile / Bog ︎︎︎ Exhibition Eile @ Bloc Projects, Sheffield, 2022 ︎︎︎  AS https://aplaceoftheirown.org/AS Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:33:52 +0000 a place of their own https://aplaceoftheirown.org/AS Amid the Air and Earth Atmospheric States   A transdisciplinary art, architecture and science research project investigating how atmospheric dynamics, pollution and their politics challenge fixed notions of the nation-state and sovereign borders on the land, and as experienced by different bodies.     Atmospheric States is a collaboration between a place of their own and atmospheric scientist Dr Liz Coleman (NUI Galway), and our initial activities will take place across rural County Galway and the region of Connemara, where the Atlantic ocean meets western Ireland, at the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station in Clara. <img width="1754" height="1240" width_o="1754" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d87f59f27f509bc7a00c4275e0186356fec8d6821bbbc30beb4e47d95582a02/Web-material-for-Dorian.jpg" data-mid="115121795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d87f59f27f509bc7a00c4275e0186356fec8d6821bbbc30beb4e47d95582a02/Web-material-for-Dorian.jpg" /> Atmospheric States will interrogate historical and contemporary apparatuses of scientific knowledge of the atmosphere, and how such apparatuses establish dominant narratives and understandings that inscribe colonial and capitalist imaginaries.  Our research and spatial art practice will ask how we might bring different knowledges together (science, art, architecture, popular culture, indigenous) to develop and test experimental apparatuses of the atmosphere, and to investigate the potential effects of such alter-apparatuses in different registers (cultural, political, imaginary etc.).      <img width="474" height="311" width_o="474" height_o="311" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3e2638a3dd0d65f53997f2003ac75b82ec9fd45aabacf0843205b1c8fd57134/th.jpg" data-mid="115425569" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/474/i/f3e2638a3dd0d65f53997f2003ac75b82ec9fd45aabacf0843205b1c8fd57134/th.jpg" /> NUI Galway’s Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station is a Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) and Advanced Global Atmospheric Gas Experiment (AGAGE) site that provides online measurements of the atmospheric agents that cause climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and air-pollution related health impacts. It is one of the most recognized and respected facilities both nationally and internationally. In 2019-21 Atmospheric States contributed to the Architecture at the Edge Festival in Galway, with the project Aer Anála (The Air We Breathe).  Myths (intro) https://aplaceoftheirown.org/Myths-intro Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:33:51 +0000 a place of their own https://aplaceoftheirown.org/Myths-intro Amid the Air and Earth Myths for a Wetlands Imaginary <img width="1754" height="1240" width_o="1754" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05ce89e776af988e67ef1eb57650d3d24524a3de5aacdb4c46bcea5475068bb4/bug-walthamstow-adjusted.jpg" data-mid="115181011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05ce89e776af988e67ef1eb57650d3d24524a3de5aacdb4c46bcea5475068bb4/bug-walthamstow-adjusted.jpg" /> Started in 2019, Myths for a Wetlands Imaginary is an ongoing project that engages with the global ecological habitat of wetlands to collaboratively explore new imaginaries of co-existence.  Wetlands, and the marshes, bogs, fens, reedbeds and reefs that make them up, tell complex stories of relationships of land and peoples, of settler colonialism, and of the capitalist and carbon imaginaries that have seen 70% of wetlands across the world destroyed in the last 50 years. We foreground the sharing and production of myth (a mythopoesis) as a method through which to draw together distinct experiences and knowlegdes of wetlands and to open up historically situated new wetlands imaginaries; with ecologists, writers, artists and communities. The work has been developed with Arts Catalyst, initially for Waltham Forest Borough Council Art Assembly in 2019, and now (21/22) as part of their Emergent Ecologies strand in Shire Brook Valley / Woodhouse Washlands (Sheffield/Rotherham).  <img width="1000" height="752" width_o="1000" height_o="752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa008fe09b8a7909523f0f220ccf9ac0bbf4f08bf8bfe8830a52fec5cb0bd1b9/myths-film-at-gallery.jpg" data-mid="115181898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa008fe09b8a7909523f0f220ccf9ac0bbf4f08bf8bfe8830a52fec5cb0bd1b9/myths-film-at-gallery.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="752" width_o="1000" height_o="752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fb9ca9b3617dd52801f29ef6de8adb1ecbfcdd6b8596dba112bf19a9cec7597/Woodhouse-algae-and-reeds_web.jpg" data-mid="115181928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fb9ca9b3617dd52801f29ef6de8adb1ecbfcdd6b8596dba112bf19a9cec7597/Woodhouse-algae-and-reeds_web.jpg" /> Myths at Walthamstow WetlandsWaltham Forest Borough Council, Art Assembly, 2019 Myths at Shire Brook Valley / Woodhouse Washlands Arts Catalyst Emergent Ecologies Home Image Scroll https://aplaceoftheirown.org/Home-Image-Scroll Sat, 31 Jul 2021 10:33:49 +0000 a place of their own https://aplaceoftheirown.org/Home-Image-Scroll