abhainn views Dublin through its inseparable relationship to water and its rivers asking what happens when we shift the focus and view the city through a hydro-lens? What can water, the rivers and their multispecies relationships teach us?
What happens when we walk Dublin city with these hydro-storytellers as the guides?
Abhainn is an embedded research project by Rosie O’Reilly in collaboration with musician Colm O’Ciosoig that reveals Dublin’s complex relationship with water. One of power, control, colonialism, pollution, of beauty and of the power of rivers and their multispecies relationships to shift our thinking asking what happens when we walk Dublin city with these hydro-storytellers as the guides?
Each track has been recorded on tape for this analogue walking kit and is a collaborative journey with multiple voices, stories and sounds (all detailed overleaf).
The project is curated by Ruth Carroll as part of Dublin City Council’s first biodiversity in residence programme. Photography was made by Sean Breithaupt. This project is funded by Creative Ireland under the Creative Climate Action fund.
my great friend the photographer Sean Breithaupt shot the images for abhainn, one sharp and cold sunday morning at low tide we cycled the city following the rivers and visiting each site as the sun started to rise