Tadhg Ó Cuirrín
noFrontiers(karaoke version)
“Did you know that there is a direct correlation between the resurgence in popularity of the music of acclaimed Irish singer Mary Black, and the increased visibility of ideas concerning the flat earth, and other non-spherical earth paradigms? Think about it! Take the lyrics of her 1989 hit No Frontiers. The symbolism is unmistakable.
Can you imagine the world being a different shape? Why is the world the way it is now, and not some other way? History is not inevitable. Why is the earth not a cube? You don’t know!
noFrontiers(karaoke version) is interested in social anxieties, but also social pleasures, It looks to provide a platform to empower more emotive, gestural forms of articulation, and promote an active listening, while reigniting an alienated public sphere.
Location: Mutton Island Causeway, Galway
about Tadhg:
I am interested in how the small events of our lives echo with the wider world of current and historical events. How they affect us, how we affect them, and the artefacts that are created in the service of our memories and legacies. I work in a variety of media, often tracing the areas wherein physical space becomes an absurd extension of the digital.
Tadhg Ó Cuirrín is an artist and based in Galway. He holds a BA in Fine Art, Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design. He works in a variety of media, and his work was recently shortlisted for the Hennessey Craig Award at the RHA 192ndAnnual Exhibition, and was included in TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway in 2022. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include “It is happening again” in March 2023 at the Custom House Studios in Westport, and "Magic, Metallic Saliva” with Karen Conway at 126 Artist Run Gallery in March 2022.
His work is supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, the Arts Council of Ireland, and Galway County Council.
Images:
1-2. Stills from noFrontiers(karaoke version), Digital video, 4.10, 2023.
3. Leo Ferrari's Stomped Globe from the Museum of the Flat Earth, Fogo Island.