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Metaphysical Longings,
Clodagh Emoe, March 24th - 15th May 2006.
Metaphysical Longings,
Clodagh Emoe, March 24th - 15th May 2006.
Pallas Heights, Number 28 Sean Tracey House, Buckingham Street, D1.
The inevitable leveling of the housing scheme
where Pallas Heights exists
represents more then the destruction of an architectural space, but more
so the manifestation of a failed modernist utopian dream. Metaphysical
Longings takes place over the course of three evenings, functioning to
facilitate participants to engage with and practice meditation. Similar
to the esoteric endeavours of the latter centuries charmed theosophical
society, these occurrences attempt to enable the experience of an elevated
state to the members of the group participating. However the emphasis of
Metaphysical Longings is not so much on experiencing the infinite, but more
so, on the efforts to record, understand and in a way, control the
sensations that occur while attempting to reach a higher transcendental
state. Our continuous struggle to map the invisible and the unattainable
ensures that we are in a similar position to this existing architectural
space deemed for demolition…unable to go on, unable not to go on.
The evidence of these twilight occurrences
at Pallas Heights is left on
display alongside participants' visual records and my own sculptural
objects/images pertaining to the theme.
Clodagh Emoe (b. Dublin) is currently participating
in the Artists Residency
Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and is currently
exhibiting her solo-show "I Am Here Somewhere" at Temple Bar Galleries
and Studios. In conjunction with this is a collaborative project with
"I Am Somewhere Here" features a visual dialogue with international
artists dealing with similar themes at the Process Room at IMMA.
Forthcoming projects for 2006 include "Territory", University of
the
Arts, London, "Tales of Hoffman", a site-specific project in Hackney
Tower, London and a two-person exhibition at the Rubicon Gallery.
Clodagh has been awarded the residency at the Banff Centre,
Canada by the Arts Council and will travel there in August 2006.