Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. today, Thursday 4 May, launched Ireland’s Representation at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023 at the Royal Irish Academy.
The exhibition is curated by a team of five architects, selected to represent Ireland on the basis of an open call - Peter Carroll, Peter Cody, Elizabeth Hatz, Mary Laheen and Joseph Mackey. Ireland at Venice is an initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council.
Responding to the theme, The Laboratory of the Future - selected by curator of the Biennale Architettura 2023, Lesley Lokko, the Irish Pavilion entitled In Search of Hy-Brasil will present fieldwork from Ireland’s remote islands, investigating their diverse cultures, communities, and experiences. In Search of Hy-Brasil is supported by Culture Ireland, through the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
Utilising large slabs of local limestone from the offshore islands of Inis Meáin (Inishmaan), UNESCO World Heritage site Sceilg Mhichíl (Skellig Michael) and Cliara (Clare Island), In Search of Hy-Brasil will offer an immersive experience that draws connections between the social fabric, cultural landscape and ecology of these islands, shifting between the global and the local, the territorial and the intimate. The installation will also make use of local materials that highlight the traditional heritage of each island; for example sea sacks woven from discarded fishers’ rope, a linen tapestry mapping Ireland’s maritime zone and an abstraction of Sceilg Mhichíl made from Galway sheep’s wool.
Minister Martin said: “In Search of Hy-Brasil examines the relationship between the islands of Ireland and their natural environment. It is very exciting to see how our adaptability to harsh conditions over the centuries can show us the way to more sustainable living today. In the era of global warming and the challenges of climate change, it is a theme that resonates globally.
“Ireland's national pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale will place the Irish language and the diverse communities, culture and experiences of the islands at the centre of the discourse surrounding our shared future.”
Ireland at Venice 2023 will build on Ireland’s strong presence at the International Architecture Exhibition of La biennale di Venezia. In recent years the Biennale Architettura 2018 was curated by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects. This year, the 2023 edition, sees the involvement of Emmett Scanlon, Alice Clancy and Laurence Lord on Curator Lesley Lokko’s curatorial team.
The installation In Search of Hy-Brasil will have a focus on renewable energy, ethical food production and biodiversity, capturing the islands’ sustainable methods of livelihood through drawing, models, film, sound, writing and language, to raise awareness of the islanders’ management of resources and their balancing of the delicate equilibrium between culture and nature.
Following its presentation in Venice, In Search of Hy-Brasil will tour Ireland in 2024.
Recreating elements of the installation on the islands, the curatorial team will seek to create an enriched narrative, bringing voices from peripheral locations into mainstream conversations around our global future. The curators of the installation will publish a book of essays and contribute to a film documentary.
More information on the Pavilion and curators can be found at: www.hy-brasil.ie/.
The Venice Architecture Biennale, which will run from 20 May to 26 November 2023, remains the most important global platform for the exhibition of architecture involving the public, members of civil society, individuals and institutions. It offers a unique opportunity for Irish architects to engage with international audiences. Ireland at Venice 2023 will build on Ireland’s strong presence at the Venice Architecture Biennale in recent years with Annex’s ‘Entanglement’ and ‘Free Market’ gaining global acclaim in 2021 and 2018 respectively. The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018 was curated by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects.
Culture Ireland is also supporting the project of BothAnd Group, which is participating in Curator’s Special Projects at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko. Also supported by Culture Ireland, a project by architect Miriam Dunne will be featured in Time Space Existence, running in Venice at the same time as the Biennale this year.
The five curators have studied the island landscapes of Inis Meáin (Inishmaan), UNESCO World Heritage site Sceilg Mhichíl (Skellig Michael) and Cliara (Clare Island) through drawing, survey, film, sound, model, mapping, and story. The installation will offer an immersive experience that draws connections between the social fabric, cultural landscape and ecology of these islands, shifting between the global and the local, the territorial and the intimate.
According to the curators, “Large limestone slabs of three of the islands - Inis Meáin, Sceilg Mhichíl and Cliara and their related ocean floor - will be on display, alongside a range of hands-on tactile displays, which celebrate the use of local materials in innovative and unorthodox ways. These include:
• A hung linen tapestry mapping the extraordinary complexity and rich topography of Ireland’s maritime zone and beyond;
• An abstraction of Sceilg Mhichíl made from Galway sheep’s wool, a traditionally mill-woven yarn, re-proposed within the pavilion in an entirely different light;
• Clare Island Survey, including a biological scientific study of microorganisms endangered by the climate crisis;
• A sea of interpretive drawings revealing aspects of unique living conditions on the islands;
• A film and soundscape of Inis Meáin, combining language, landscape, ocean, time and light;
• Sea sacks woven from discarded fishers’ rope and filled with the by-product from the production of yarn;
• A graphite rendering of the Pangaea, a reminder of our shared landmass in geological time”
Peter Carroll BArch MRIAI. Graduated from University College Dublin in 1995. He worked in the studios of O’Donnell + Tuomey in Dublin and Rafael Moneo in Madrid before establishing A2 Architects in 2005. He is Director of A2 Architects and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture University of Limerick since 2007. Peter is currently running the third year studio in SAUL focussing on Clare Island and its ongoing relationship to the Praeger and Feehan surveys.
Peter Cody PhD MScAAD DipArch BScArch MRIAI. Graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1990, completed a master’s degree in architecture at Columbia University, New York in 1996 and a PhD at RMIT University, Melbourne in 2018. He worked in the studio of and Alvaro Siza in Porto before establishing Boyd Cody Architects in 2000. He is currently a Director of Boyd Cody Architects and assistant professor at University College Dublin. He exhibited an interpretation of the work of Eileen Gray at the Venice Biennale 2018 and previously exhibited at the Biennale in 2012 and 2006 with a focus on the depleted bog-lands of the Irish Midlands. He was Co-Curator of ‘Line to Surface’ at the Inaugural Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2007 with Peter Carroll.
Elizabeth B Hatz is a practicing architect, AA Diploma/SAR/MSA, associate professor and art curator. She shares her time between office, research, consultation, art work and teaching, as former professor at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and presently at SAUL School of Architecture, University of Limerick, Ireland. She has designed several major buildings such as Kodak Head Quarters and laboratories outside Gothenburg, the ground buildings of Stockholm Globe Arena and laboratories for Nobel Industries/AKSO-Nobel in Stockholm. Since 1992 she runs her own practice in Stockholm. In the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, Elizabeth Hatz was represented in the Central Pavilion, with her own show: Line, Light, Locus.
Hatz curated ev+a 2010 (exhibition of visual arts), entitled “Matters”, Ireland's pre-eminent art event, with 59 artists from 14 countries in 11 different venues; reviewed in Irish Times by Aidan Dunne April 2010. Her writings are published in Sweden, UK, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland. Online she is published at Drawing Matter UK: and At University of Kingston in Register Podcasts 2017. Writings include essays on Peter Märkli, Hugh Strange, Hammershøj, Grafton Architects and others.
Mary Laheen BArch, MUBC, FRIAI graduated from University College Dublin in 1981. She worked with de Blacam and Meagher Architects before establishing a practice in Dublin in 1995. She is the author of various publications related to cultural landscape, and represents Ireland on the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes, ICOMOS. With Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin, Architect, she exhibited ‘Landscape and Lens’ interpreting the work of Jean Rénaudie at the Venice Biennale 2018. Mary has had a lifelong engagement with the islands of Ireland, in particular the drystone-wall field-boundary landscape of the Aran Islands. The nature-culture dynamic of the islands has informed and inspired her work in the practice and teaching of architecture.
Joseph Mackey BArch, MRIAI graduated from University College Dublin in 2010. He worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Paris, Tom de Paor in Dublin, Eric Parry Architects and Niall McLaughlin Architects in London, before establishing Joseph Mackey Architects in 2015. He is a director at Joseph Mackey Architects and a senior lecturer at Cork Centre for Architectural Education. Joseph’s work has been exhibited at RIBA gallery in London 2010 and the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022.
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Hy-Brasil is Commissioned by Culture Ireland, and supported by:
- Culture Ireland
- The Arts Council of Ireland
- Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
- Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
- Cardinal Capital
- University College Dublin
- University of Limerick
- Cork Centre for Architectural Education
- The Office of Public Works
- The Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland
- Kavanagh Lighting
- TG4
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Infomar
- Techrete
- Galway County Council
- Kerry County Council
- Mayo County Council
Inniu, Déardaoin 4 Bealtaine, sheol an tAire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán, Catherine Martin T.D., ionadaíocht na hÉireann ag 18ú Biennale Ailtireachta na Veinéise in 2023 in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann. Tá an taispeántas á choimeád ag foireann de chúigear ailtirí, a roghnaíodh chun ionadaíocht a dhéanamh ar Éirinn ar bhonn glao oscailte - Peter Carroll, Peter Cody, Elizabeth Hatz, Mary Laheen agus Joseph Mackey. Is tionscnamh de chuid Chultúr Éireann i gcomhpháirtíocht leis an gComhairle Ealaíon é ionadaíocht na hÉireann sa Veinéis.
Ag freagairt don téama, Saotharlann na Todhchaí - a roghnaigh coimeádaí Biennale Architettura 2023, Lesley Lokko, cuirfidh Pailliún na hÉireann dar teideal In Search of Hy-Brasil obair allamuigh ó oileáin iargúlta na hÉireann i láthair, ag fiosrú a gcultúir, a bpobail, agus a n-eispéiris éagsúla. Faigheann In Search of Hy-Brasil tacaíocht ó Chultúr Éireann, tríd an Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán.
Baineann In Search of Hy-Brasil úsáid as leaca aolchloiche ó Inis Meáin, láithreán Oidhreachta Domhanda UNESCO Sceilg Mhicíl agus Oileán Chliara, agus cuirfear taispeántais thadhlacha láimhe ar bun a tharraingíonn naisc idir fabraic shóisialta, tírdhreach cultúrtha agus éiceolaíocht na n-oileán seo, ag aistriú idir an domhan agus an saol áitiúil, agus a cheiliúrann úsáid ábhar áitiúil ar bhealaí nuálacha agus neamhghnáthacha.
Baineann In Search of Hy-Brasil úsáid as leaca aolchloiche ó Inis Meáin, láithreán Oidhreachta Domhanda UNESCO Sceilg Mhicíl agus Oileán Chliara, agus cuirfear taispeántais thadhlacha láimhe ar bun a tharraingíonn naisc idir fabraic shóisialta, tírdhreach cultúrtha agus éiceolaíocht na n-oileán seo, ag aistriú idir an domhan agus an saol áitiúil, agus a cheiliúrann úsáid ábhar áitiúil ar bhealaí nuálacha agus neamhghnáthacha.
Dúirt an tAire Martin: Scrúdaíonn “In Search of Hy-Brasil” an gaol idir oileáin na hÉireann agus a dtimpeallacht nádúrtha. Is iontach an rud é a fheiceáil conas is féidir lenár gcumas chun déileáil le cúinsí deacra leis na céadta bliain a léiriú dúinn conas maireachtáil níos inbhuanaithe sa lá atá inniu ann. I ré an téimh dhomhanda agus na ndúshlán a bhaineann le hathrú aeráide, is téama é a bhfuil tábhacht dhomhanda leis.”
“Cuirfidh Pailliún náisiúnta na hÉireann ag Biennale Ailtireachta na Veinéise 2023 an Ghaeilge agus pobail, cultúr agus eispéiris éagsúla na n-oileán i gcroílár an dioscúrsa a bhaineann lenár dtodhchaí chomhroinnte.”
Tógann In Search of Hy-Brasil ar rath na hÉireann i gcoimeád an Biennale Architettura 2018, le Shelley McNamara agus Yvonne Farrell ó Grafton Architects. In 2023 tá Emmett Scanlon, Alice Clancy agus Laurence Lord ag glacadh páirt ar fhoireann Lesley Lokko, Coimeádaí an Biennale.
Díreoidh an tsuiteáil In Search of Hy-Brasil ar fhuinneamh in-athnuaite, táirgeadh bia eiticiúil agus bithéagsúlacht, ag gabháil do mhodhanna maireachtála inbhuanaithe na n-oileán trí líníocht, samhlacha, scannán, fuaim, scríbhneoireacht agus teanga, chun feasacht na n-oileánach a ardú ar bhainistiú acmhainní agus an chothromaíocht íogair idir an cultúr agus an dúlra a chothromú.
Tar éis é a chur i láthair sa Veinéis, rachaidh In Search of Hy-Brasil ar camchuairt in Éirinn in 2024.
Agus iad ag athchruthú gnéithe den suiteáil ar na hoileáin, féachfaidh an fhoireann choimeádaithe le scéal saibhrithe a chruthú, ag tabhairt guthanna ó áiteanna imeallacha isteach i gcomhráite faoinár dtodhchaí dhomhanda. Foilseoidh coimeádaithe na suiteála leabhar aistí agus cuirfidh siad le clár faisnéise.
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Is é Biennale Ailtireachta na Veinéise, a bheidh ar siúl ón 20 Bealtaine go dtí an 26 Samhain 2023, an t-ardán domhanda is tábhachtaí fós maidir le taispeántas na hailtireachta a ghlacfaidh an pobal, baill den tsochaí shibhialta, daoine aonair agus institiúidí páirt ann. Tugann sé deis uathúil d’ailtirí Éireannacha lucht féachana idirnáisiúnta a mhealladh. Tógfaidh ionadaíocht na hÉireann sa Veinéis 2023 ar láithreacht láidir na hÉireann ag Biennale Ailtireachta na Veinéise le blianta beaga anuas, moladh ‘Entanglement’ agus ‘Free Market’ le Annex go domhanda in 2021 agus 2018 faoi seach. Choiméadaigh Shelley McNamara agus Yvonne Farrell ó Grafton Architects an 16ú Biennale Ailtireachta sa Veinéis in 2018.
Tacaíonn Cultúr Éireann le tionscadal BothAnd Group atá páirteach i dtograí speisialta an choimeádaí mar chuid den Biennale. Le tacaíocht ó Chultúr Éireann freisin, beidh tionscadal de chuid an ailtire Miriam Dunne le feiceáil in Time Space Existence, a bheidh ar siúl sa Veinéis ag an am céanna leis an Biennale i mbliana.
Rinne an cúigear coimeádaithe staidéar ar thírdhreacha oileáin Inis Meáin, láithreán Oidhreachta Domhanda UNESCO Sceilg Mhicíl agus Cliara trí líníocht, suirbhéireacht, scannán, fuaim, múnla, léarscáiliú agus scéalaíocht. Cuirfidh an tsuiteáil eispéireas tumtha ar fáil a tharraingíonn naisc idir fabraic shóisialta, tírdhreach cultúrtha agus éiceolaíocht na n-oileán seo, ag aistriú idir an domhan agus an saol áitiúil.
Dar leis na comeádaithe, “beidh leaca móra aolchloiche ó trí oileán - Inis Meáin, Sceilg Mhichíl agus Cliara agus an ghrinneall farraige a bhaineann leo - ar taispeáint, in éineacht le raon de thaispeántais thadhlacha láimhe, a cheiliúrann úsáid ábhar áitiúil ar bhealaí nuálacha agus neamhghnáthacha. Ina measc seo tá:
• Taipéis línéadaigh crochta ag mapáil castacht iontach agus topagrafaíocht shaibhir zón muirí na hÉireann agus níos faide i gcéin;
• Saothar teibí de Sceilg Mhichíl déanta as olann chaoirigh na Gaillimhe, snáth a bhíodh fite go traidisiúnta sa mhuilinn, arna athbheartú laistigh den phailliún ar bhealach iomlán difriúil;
• Suirbhé ar Oileán Chliara, lena n-áirítear staidéar bitheolaíoch eolaíoch ar mhiocrorgánaigh atá i mbaol ag géarchéim na haeráide;
• Líníochtaí léirmhínithe ina nochtar gnéithe de dhálaí maireachtála uathúla ar na hoileáin;
• Scannán agus fuaimeanna Inis Meáin, ag comhcheangal teanga, tírdhreacha, aigéin, am agus solas;
• Saic mhara atá fite ó rópa iascairí caite agus a líonadh leis an seachtháirge ó tháirgeadh snátha;
• Rindreáil graifíte de Pangaea, meabhrúchán ar ár gcuid talún roinnte in am geolaíochta.”
Peter Carroll BArch MRIAI. Bhain sé céim amach sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath in 1995. D’oibrigh sé i stiúideonna O’Donnell + Tuomey i mBaile Átha Cliath agus Rafael Moneo i Maidrid sular bhunaigh sé A2 Architects in 2005. Tá sé ina Stiúrthóir ar A2 Architects agus ina Léachtóir Sinsearach ar Scoil na hAiltireachta, Ollscoil Luimnigh ó 2007 i leith, agus tá sé ina Chomh-Stiúrthóir ar Aonad Faisnéise SAUL le hocht mbliana anuas. Roghnaíodh A2 Architects chun ionadaíocht a dhéanamh ar Éirinn ag Biennial Ailtireachta Chicago i mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2015 le GKMP agus Ryan W. Kennihan Architects. Tá stiúideo tríú bliana á rith ag Peter faoi láthair ar Chliara a thugann cuairt arís ar shuirbhé Praeger 1908.
Peter Cody PhD MScAAD DipArch BScArch MRIAI. Bhain sé céim mháistreachta amach in Institiúid Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath in 1990, agus chríochnaigh sé céim mháistreachta san ailtireacht in Ollscoil Columbia, Nua-Eabhrac in 1996 agus PhD in Ollscoil RMIT, Melbourne in 2018. D’oibrigh sé i stiúideo Alvaro Siza in Porto sular bhunaigh sé Boyd Cody Architects sa bhliain 2000. Faoi láthair tá sé ina Stiúrthóir ar Boyd Cody Architects agus ina ollamh cúnta sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath. Thaispeáin sé léirmhíniú ar shaothar Eileen Gray ag Biennale na Veinéise 2018 agus roimhe sin bhí taispeántais aige ag an Biennale in 2012 agus 2006 le fócas ar thailte portaigh ídithe Lár Tíre na hÉireann. Bhí sé ina Chomhchoimeádaí ar ‘Line to Surface’ ag Triennale Ailtireachta Liospóin 2007 le Peter Carroll.
Is ailtire, ollamh agus coimeádaí ealaíne í Elizabeth Hatz AA Dioplóma / SAR / MSA, ag roinnt a cuid ama idir cleachtas, taighde agus poist mhúinteoireachta in Ollscoil Luimnigh agus KTH Stócólm. Áirítear ar a hobair thógtha Ceanncheathrú Kodak Gothenburg, Globe Arena Stócólm agus foirgnimh do AKSO-Nobel, Stócólm. Choimeád Hatz EVA 2010, an príomhimeacht ealaíne in Éirinn. Is ceannaire SAR (RIAI na Sualainne) í, chomhbhunaigh sí Fargfabriken, ardán a bhfuil cáil air maidir le hEalaín agus Ailtireacht i Stócólm, áit a bhfuil sí ina comhalta boird.
Bhain Mary Laheen BArch, MUBC, FRIAI céim amach sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath in 1981. D’oibrigh sí le de Blacam agus Meagher Architects sular bhunaigh sí cleachtas i mBaile Átha Cliath in 1995. Téann an cleachtas i ngleic leis an ailtireacht ar bhealaí éagsúla lena n-áirítear: dearadh foirgnimh chomhaimseartha; caomhnú na bhfoirgneamh atá ann cheana atá spéisiúil go cultúrtha agus go stairiúil; staidéar agus bainistíocht ar thírdhreach cultúrtha; scríbhneoireacht agus teagasc. Is údar í ar fhoilseacháin éagsúla a bhaineann leis an tírdhreach cultúrtha, agus déanann sí ionadaíocht ar Éirinn ar an gCoiste Eolaíoch Idirnáisiúnta um Thírdhreacha Cultúrtha, ICOMOS. In éineacht le hAoibheann Ní Mhearáin, Ailtire, thaispeáin sí ‘Tírdhreach agus Lionsa’ ag léirmhíniú saothar Jean Rénaudie ag Biennale na Veinéise 2018. Bhí baint ag Máire le hoileáin na hÉireann ar feadh a saoil, go háirithe leis an tírdhreach teorann páirce claí cloiche ar Oileáin Árann. Rinne dinimic dúlra-chultúir na n-oileán eolas dá cuid oibre agus spreag sé í i gcleachtadh agus i dteagasc na hailtireachta.
Bhain Joseph Mackey BArch, MRIAI céim amach ón gColáiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath in 2010. D’oibrigh sé le Ceardlann Foirgníochta Renzo Piano i bPáras, le Tom de Paor i mBaile Átha Cliath, le Eric Parry Architects agus le Niall McLaughlin Architects i Londain, sular bhunaigh sé Joseph Mackey Architects in 2015. Tá sé ina stiúrthóir ar Joseph Mackey Architects agus ina léachtóir sinsearach in Ionad Oideachas Ailtireachta Chorcaí. Tá saothar Sheosaimh ar taispeáint i ngailearaí RIBA i Londain 2010 agus ag Biennale Ailtireachta Tallinn 2022.
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Coimisiúnaíonn Cultúr Éireann Hy-Brasil agus tacaíonn na hinstitiúidí seo a leanas leo:
- An Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Méan
- An Chomhairle Ealaíon
- An Roinn Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta
- Cardinal Capital
- Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath
- Ollscoil Luimnigh
- Ionad Oideachas Ailtireachta Chorcaí
- Institiúid Ríoga na nAiltirí
- Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí
- TG4, an Craoltóir Seirbhíse Poiblí Náisiúnta Gaeilge.
- Infomar
- Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe
- Comhairle Chontae Chiarraí
- Comhairle Chontae Mhaigh Eo
- PwC
- Techcrete
- Kavanagh Lighting
Posted: 04.05.23
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