Still from Flicker (2016), HD video, 25"21', Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty
Unaccountable Rhythms
19th Oct 2016
Still from Flicker (2016), HD video, 25"21', Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty
Unaccountable Rhythms
A performance as part of the exhibition Time (Ireland) Act by Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty.
Wednesday 19 October 7pm
‘The communicator then took control and wrote what follows: “I am tuning into your rhythm. I see so clearly now the nature of environment and how we hitch onto each one”. Here the communicator drew across the page three long wavy lines, of varying design, one under the other. “That is the story of the universe and of communicating intelligences, of communicating appearances. Rhythms, unaccountable rhythms, and we can only illustrate them by these undulating lines. We, on earth, live in one rhythm. But our soul is so constituted that if we choose to exercise its powers to the full, we can tune into other rhythms – enter again the various phases in the history of the earth, for mind and memory pervade the whole universe’.
Geraldine Cummins, The Fate of Colonel Fawcett - a Narrative of his Last Expedition (1955), The Aquarian Press.
As part of the exhibition Time (Ireland) Act, this evening of performances will see Rachel Ní Chuinn, Ruth Clinton, Isadora Epstein and Niamh Moriarty respond to the introduction of Daylight Savings Time, the life and work of Cork medium Geraldine Cummins and the setting of the Old Yacht Club.
This year marks 100 years since Britain, and therefore Ireland, adopted Daylight Savings Time. The rearrangement of public timekeeping resulted in a sudden loss of twenty-five minutes and twenty-two seconds of Irish time. Taking this temporal elision as a starting point, Time (Ireland) Act tests the possibility of unfolding infinite moments of unrealised potential into the dramatic setting of Cobh.
Collaborative gestures, video and interactive fiction are used to present simultaneous, non-linear narratives of remote (mis)communication and to question the possibility of ownership over intangible forces. Whilst being influenced by the experience of undertaking a year-long residency in Cobh, Clinton and Moriarty look outward to create a temporary confluence of knowledges: distant and proximate.
