KATE MCELROY
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    • Oscillation: An Altering Rhythm
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    • Pulsating P(l)ace
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    • And, if we observe the present
    • inter_site
    • An unfurling unknown
    • Affectual Occurence
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C A S C A D I N G ,   H I G H

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Layered 35mm photographic prints on vegetal paper

Cascading, high is a photographic installation documenting the financial districts and developing docklands in cities such as Lisbon, London, Dublin and Cork. It examines the financialization and homogenization of space. Capturing the phantasmagorical effects of these glass and steel structures it echoes the illusionary and disorientating sense of living within the structures of neoliberalism.
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C E A S E L E S S ,   M O R E 
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  • Ceaseless, more spoken word performance explores a breathlessness of humanity by the hand of capitalism, and the drive towards perpetual progress. A sense of accelerating constriction undergirds the performance. It weaves social and political contexts and its effects on the corporeal and takes a critical stance on our current reality. Using materials from the adjacent construction site viewed from the window, the inner and outer environments are linked.
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​Spoken word performance 
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O N   U N S O L I D   G R O U N D
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Suspended reeds, video projection, sound
On Unsolid Ground draws from architectural research on the particular street which the exhibition was being held South Main Street which referenced the streets previous state as an area of reed beds. This work imagines Cork City in its previous form as a marshland, pre reclamation and development, meandered by the river Lee. A phantom place in a crypt like room, its acts almost like a homage to the lost landscape. Through coalescing fragments of time and space our positioning in an interlinked, transforming ecology is brought into question.

Seen together, the works form a constellation, making connections between the city's past, present and speculative future(s).

Oscilation: An Altering Rhythm, by inter_site,
Stamp Festival at the Counting House by Sample-Studios, Cork City, 2023
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  • Home
  • Work
    • An Absence , An edge
    • Articles: Seen and Unseen
    • Oscillation: An Altering Rhythm
    • Cascading, high
    • Pulsating P(l)ace
    • Oileáin
    • And, if we observe the present
    • inter_site
    • An unfurling unknown
    • Affectual Occurence
  • About
  • Contact