ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ OBLIVION SEACHMALLTACHT
OBLIVION is a multimedia performance, moving image and sound installation created by Aideen Barry in collaboration with internationally renowned singer and song writer RIIT ᕇᑦ , Irish Harpist Elaine Hogan with performative costume design by Margaret O Connor and was commissioned by the Irish Traditional Music Archive and Music Network under the 2020 Bunting Commission award.
This work will debut in 2021 in Limerick City Gallery of Art as a part of the solo show by Barry entitled "By Slight Ligaments" curated by Sarah Searson and will be preformed live at, Limerick City Gallery of Art 21.12.21 and in 2022 at Source Art Centre, The Belfast International Arts Festival, The Centre Cultural Irlandais in Pars and other venue soon to be announced.
ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ OBLIVION SEACHMALLTACHT
OBLIVION is a work built in response to the endeavour of Bunting to save the Irish Harp from extinction, thus giving us the 66 tracks, lilts and airs of Irish Traditional Harp which saved the music for future generations and became an intrinsic part of our Irish Cultural Identity.
Using the existing scores, Barry is collaborating with RIIT to create a new contemporary electro pop sound installation inspired by the now collective and universal feeling of impending doom that we humans face as a species. Oblivion is a call to arms for this collective of artists as they conceptually ask, what is the Role of Art & Artists at a time of great uncertainty, environmental collapse and the prospect of a world of ruin if we do noting at all?
Oblivion will be a multi sound, multi disciplined, multimedia manifestation created by Barry with her collaborators, who will preform this work as a haunting call to arms.
