A R T I C L E S : S E E N A N D U N S E E N
Articles: Seen and Unseen
As the earth heats, our habitable world destabilizes, with every fraction of a degree hotter the more precarious our future becomes. This project asks: Is Ireland’s media responding with urgency to the climate crisis Ireland declared in 2019? To investigate, I examined Ireland’s most read and watched media, The Irish Independent, The Irish Times, and RTÉ News for the year 2024, the hottest on record. The project focuses on front pages and headlines as indicators of what is deemed most critical each day.
The work materialises this inquiry through a series of paper clay tiles created from pulped newspapers, and affixed to the walls of a domino-like tunnel. The passage doubles as a type of walk-through calendar with incisions signifying days with no climate coverage. At its end, a light slowly shifts, evoking temperature graphs, a setting sun, or a silent alarm. The video is marked largely by absence of media coverage, with each day being represented by a glitch per second.
Often perceived as abstract or distant climate change struggles for immediacy in a news cycle dominated by other mounting crises. The work itself mirrors marginalisation, installed peripherally along the rooms edges. To confront this crisis, we must see it not only as an environmental and scientific issue, but also political and cultural, shaped by those who control what is seen, heard, and felt.
Work shown as part of Vertigo: A Crescendo, Cork County Council Building, Cork City, 7 - 9 April, 2025
Supported by an Arts Council Project award with artist collective inter_site
As the earth heats, our habitable world destabilizes, with every fraction of a degree hotter the more precarious our future becomes. This project asks: Is Ireland’s media responding with urgency to the climate crisis Ireland declared in 2019? To investigate, I examined Ireland’s most read and watched media, The Irish Independent, The Irish Times, and RTÉ News for the year 2024, the hottest on record. The project focuses on front pages and headlines as indicators of what is deemed most critical each day.
The work materialises this inquiry through a series of paper clay tiles created from pulped newspapers, and affixed to the walls of a domino-like tunnel. The passage doubles as a type of walk-through calendar with incisions signifying days with no climate coverage. At its end, a light slowly shifts, evoking temperature graphs, a setting sun, or a silent alarm. The video is marked largely by absence of media coverage, with each day being represented by a glitch per second.
Often perceived as abstract or distant climate change struggles for immediacy in a news cycle dominated by other mounting crises. The work itself mirrors marginalisation, installed peripherally along the rooms edges. To confront this crisis, we must see it not only as an environmental and scientific issue, but also political and cultural, shaped by those who control what is seen, heard, and felt.
Work shown as part of Vertigo: A Crescendo, Cork County Council Building, Cork City, 7 - 9 April, 2025
Supported by an Arts Council Project award with artist collective inter_site