On being there
Architecture at the Edge in association with the Irish Architecture Foundation present:
On being there
A Gall film by Peter Maybury.
On being there is a filmic encounter with the material and outputs of the office of Tom dePaor. The earliest project represented here is from 1991, and the film spans 30 years including a project at Dysart, Co. Wicklow.
There is the place itself. There are notebooks, drawings, prints, scale models, 35mm slides, photographs, films, files, books, and writing. A diversity of materials and media, evidencing significant technological changes in production and reproduction. This is the raw material. The film is a rerecording, or sampling of this material, where scale, media, and modes of presentation and realisation merge. The linear transition from drawing to model to built landscape and documentation is disrupted. The film explores the permeability of the image. Animated or activated through movement and operation, everything can be superimposed, overlaid, or cut into. An audio-visual encounter with place, within the space of the screen and the loudspeaker.
The film premièred in January 2022 at the Tom dePaor exhibition ‘i see Earth’ Building and Ground 1991-2021 at VISUAL Carlow, curated by Nathalie Weadick and supported by the Arts Council. This screening brings Tom dePaor’s work home to a building he designed, the Pálás Cinema.
Cinematic World Premiere
Followed by Q&A with director Peter Maybury, Nathalie Weadick, and Tom dePaor, chaired by Hugh Campbell.
FREE, Pre-booking required
Peter Maybury is an Irish multidisciplinary artist. His practice-based research encompasses works as an artist, graphic designer, filmmaker, publisher, writer, editor, curator, musician, and educator.
Nathalie Weadick is the Director of the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF). She has worked in the international cultural sector for over 25 years, delivering high profile art and architecture projects and programmes in the UK, Ireland, and Venice Architecture Biennale. She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship for her contribution to architecture by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2017.
Tom dePaor is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. In 2000, he was selected to make the inaugural Irish Pavilion at the 7th Venice Architecture Biennale and subsequently represented Ireland in 2006, in 2008 and in 2010, when he co-curated and designed the exhibition and was invited to present his work in the International Exhibition. His most recent exhibition was ‘i see Earth’ Building and Ground 1991-2021, curated by Nathalie Weadick.
Hugh Campbell is Professor of Architecture at UCD. He is active in teaching, research, publication, and curation, having co-curated Ireland's pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale with Nathalie Weadick and worked with Yvonne Farrell and Shelley MacNamara on the Close Encounter section of the 2018 Venice Biennale, a show which also toured Ireland in collaboration with the IAF. As part of the Open Heart City collective, he is currently looking at the future of the Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott St., Dublin.
