GPS triggered sound walk at IMMA
TRÉIMHSE. https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/uZhYbYlLswXY5ipT
TRÉIMHSE. https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/uZhYbYlLswXY5ipT
If the Morrígan, the wise crow & great queen in Irish mythology could tell you a story while walking the formal garden in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), what would she say and where would she bring you?
At IMMA’s Earth Rising, she appeared as the guide for the bilingual Gaeilge/ English soundwalk Tréimhse* in the formal gardens. In headpieces made to represent the Morrigan you walk the gardens with a new audio soundscape built on Echoes. Link above. The walk, plays as on the need in these troubled times for what Robin Wall Kimmerer calls Re-story-ation “our relationship with the land cannot heal until we hear its stories. But who will tell them?” Braiding Sweetgrass (2013). Using field recording, sound and storytelling the Morrigan is called upon tell these stories and to lay down new pathways in the gardens.
The walk places Irish and its close ecological observation at the heart of its storytelling. Reimagining the gardens as Gaeilge the Morrígan brings into focus the need for anti colonial methodologies of care and profound ecological awareness to unsilence and imagine new worlds. Siúlaimid le chéile. We will walk together. Tréimhse grew out of conversations between visual artist Rosie O’Reilly and curator Shannon Carroll on the power of Gaeilge as a cornerstone of a new ecological time. it brings together O’Reilly’s feminist research on the Morrigan in Irish mythology, their research on the story telling power of Gaeilge, with field recordings and sound by Headfoot (Colm O’Ciosoig, Rosie O’Reilly, Barry Ryan) and words by Prof Michael Cronin (An Gaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht, 2019)
*Tréimhse: a period of time
