About
Idir Sholas
Idir Sholas (between light) is the culmination of seventeen months of study by the first group of students on the MA Art and Environment (TU Dublin, 2020); Deirdre Archbold, Ann Burns, Guy Dalton, Sinéad McCormick, Sylwia Migdal, Katie Nolan and Ruairí Ó Donnabháin. The exhibition includes a diverse range of multi and digital media, film, photography, sound, virtual reality, performance and installation.
Launched at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre in October 2020, the first semester of the MA AE coincided with the second wave of Covid-19 restrictions, which continued sporadically into the third lockdown in January 2021. Through this time the students participated in a rigorous study programme on the concept of mapping as it pertains to visual arts practice, environmental methodologies and the anthropocene more generally. Locked in for the entirety of the second semester, the students developed a unique approach to artistic research in virtual reality combining interviews with island communities, 3d modelling, performance and audio spatial experimentations. Titled Sensing, the second semester was taught in a virtual floating archipelago and lead to a virtual exhibition with the European League of Art Institutes (ELIA) and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre. The third and final semester Hacking, was delivered at the latter stages of the pandemic in 2021 -22, when the students were finally able to develop physical fieldwork on the islands of Whiddy, Cape Clear and Sherkin. The exhibition on show until the 26th March represents their unique artistic journey through the biosphere and the technosphere at a time of great intensity and urgency.