Sara Muthi will lead a special lunchtime tour of spending static to save gas by Gabriel Kuri.
Taking the notion of ‘futility’ as a point of departure this tour explores ‘fruitless struggle’ in which the labour exerted may not match its weight in profit. This seemingly unworthy effort is explored through concepts of absurdity à la Albert Camus and his The Myth of Sisyphus. Thinking through Kuri’s logic of everyday objects this tour attempts to lean into the artists pursuit of maintenance as creation; reconsidering materiality and the gallery space towards reiteration, repurposing and re-organisation.
The Douglas Hyde is very pleased to announce an In Conversation event where critic and curator, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith will talk to Uri Aran about his practice and his exhibition Take This Dog for Example. The talk will take place on Saturday, 1 April at 2 pm at the Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Block, […]
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