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Irish premiere announced of installations by award-winning Kilkenny-born artist
Grid Moria by Richard Mosse
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Kilkenny Arts Festival in partnership with Butler Gallery is delighted to present the Irish premiere of two acclaimed installations by the award-winning Kilkenny-born artist Richard Mosse, as part of Brightening Air | Coisceim Coiligh, a nationwide, ten-day season of arts experiences brought to you by the Arts Council.
Mosse s work documents the tragedies of our times. His video installations Incoming and Grid (Moria) were made in response to the ongoing migration crisis in the Mediterranean.
Incoming will be shown at the Butler Gallery from June 11 to August 29. To make Incoming, Mosse employed a highly specialized surveillance camera designed for military use that captures images by detecting thermal radiation, including the heat of a human body, from more than eighteen miles away, day or night. The black, white, and grey tones register temperat
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Cathal Coughlan: I haven’t lived in Ireland for forty years, but I have that identity
The Cork musician enjoyed his brief reunion with Microdisney, but has created a new persona for Song of Co-Aklan, his first solo album in ten years
Cathal Coughlan.
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Having bid farewell to a large part of his musical past in February of 2019 with the formal, final shows of Microdisney, singer Cathal Coughlan wouldn’t have been blamed for finding himself at a juncture of sorts. While none of us could have quite anticipated what would be in store in the months and years that followed, the current moment seems ideal for Coughlan to cast a cold eye on affairs of the world.