Alternative Arrangements
Tom Keeley
Time & Date(s):
Gallery Talk: 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Sunday 01 October, 2023
Exhibition: 11am - 6pm, 30th September – 08 October
Location: The Mick Lally Theatre
This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required, but places are limited and will operate on a first come first serve basis.
Summary
Exhibition focussed on the architectures and landscapes of the contested border on the island of Ireland, consisting of film, medium format prints, printed matter, and installation.
Event Organiser Tom Keeley
About
Alternative Arrangements consists of film, photography, site-specific installation, and texts to be read in association with key locations, histories, and materials of the contested border on the island of Ireland. While the Brady Amendment of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 called for ‘alternative arrangements’ to the so-called ‘Irish backstop,’ this work shifts the emphasis from ‘alternative arrangements’ for goods and services, to making ‘alternative arrangements’ of contested historical, material, and spatial fragments. These materials were identified and manufactured along the border, unfixed, and then inserted back into sites of historic or spatial significance. In each site these installations create an uncanny double-take, seeking to reconfigure the binary of the border into a ‘polysituated’ blur of architectures, landscapes, and histories; in doing so softening this violent line and creating space to imagine the island differently.
Supported by Creative Places West Cork Islands, the Landscape Research Group, and a Beacon Bursary for Public Engagement from UCL Culture. Míle buíochas to Ruairí Ó Donnabháin, Ríobhca Ní Rinn, and Gemma Thorpe.