Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Patrick O’Donovan T.D. will tomorrow, Friday 19 May, open Ireland’s Representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
The exhibition, In Search of Hy-Brasil, is curated by a team of five architects, 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.
In Search of Hy-Brasil presents fieldwork from Ireland’s remote islands, investigating their diverse cultures, communities, and experiences. The exhibition has 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. The pavilion responds to the theme, The Laboratory of the Future - selected by curator of the Biennale Architettura 2023, Lesley Lokko.
The exhibition offers an immersive experience using 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. The installation includes 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 doing this, In Search of Hy-Brasil shifts between the global and the local, the territorial and the intimate and gives international audiences the chance to experience connections between the social fabric, cultural landscape and ecology of these islands. The exhibition is also steeped in the Irish language through voice, writing and song.
Ireland at Venice 2023 builds 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 sees the involvement of Irish architects Emmett Scanlon, Alice Clancy and Laurence Lord on the Biennale’s Curator Lesley Lokko’s curatorial team. 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 exhibition will continue in Venice from May until November and will then undertake a national tour of Ireland in 2024, supported by The Arts Council. The tour will recreate elements of the installation on the islands, with the curatorial team seeking 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.
Catherine Martin T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, said:
“I am very pleased that Ireland in Venice 2023 will open tomorrow with the exhibition In Search of Hy-Brasil representing Ireland at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. In Search of Hy-Brasil in responding to the joint themes of the Biennale - decarbonisation and decolonisation - examines the relationship between the islands of Ireland and their natural environment. Irish architecture has had a strong presence at the Biennale in recent years, in particular since Grafton Architects Shelly McNamara and Yvonne Farrell were selected as the Biennale curators in 2018. I have no doubt that the Hy-Brasil team will continue the robust representation of Irish architecture in Venice.”
Patrick O’Donovan T.D., Minister of State with Responsibility for the Gaeltacht and Gaeltacht Affairs, said:
“I am honoured to launch Ireland in Venice 2023. As Minister with responsibility for the Gaeltacht I am particularly pleased that the exhibition provides a unique showcase for the Irish language where people from countries around the globe will get to hear and see the Irish language spoken as part of an immersive experience.”
More information on the Pavilion and curators can be found at: www.hy-brasil.ie/
Editor’s notes:
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.
In Search of Hy-Brasil - Ireland’s Maritime Zone
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.
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”
Curatorial team:
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 Hatz AA Diploma / SAR / MSA, is a practicing architect, professor and art curator, sharing her time between practice, research and teaching positions at UL and KTH Stockholm. Built work includes Kodak Head Quarters Gothenburg, Stockholm Globe Arena and buildings for AKSO-Nobel, Stockholm. Hatz curated EVA 2010, Ireland’s pre-eminent art event. The head of SAR (Swedish RIAI) she cofounded Fargfabriken, renowned scene for Art and Architecture in Stockholm, where she is a board member.
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
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- Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
- Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
- Cardinal Capital
- University College Dublin
- University of Limerick
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Ireland at Venice: In Search of Hy-Brasil
Ionadaíocht na hÉireann ag La Biennale Architettura 2023 sa Veinéis
Osclóidh an tAire Stáit sa Roinn Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán, T.D. Patrick O'Donovan, Ionadaíocht na hÉireann amárach, Dé hAoine an 19 Bealtaine, ag an 18ú Taispeántas Ailtireachta Idirnáisiúnta - La Biennale di Venezia.
Tá an taispeántas, In Search of Hy-Brasil, á choimeád ag foireann de chúigear ailtirí, Peter Carroll, Peter Cody, Elizabeth Hatz, Mary Laheen agus Joseph Mackey. Is tionscnamh de chuid Chultúr Éireann é Ireland at Venice i gcomhpháirtíocht leis an gComhairle Ealaíon.
Cuirtear saothar allamuigh ó oileáin iargúlta na hÉireann i láthair le In Search of Hy-Brasil, ina bhfiosraítear na cultúir, na pobail agus an taithí éagsúil a bhaineann leo. Tá an taispeántas dírithe ar fhuinneamh in-athnuaite, ar tháirgeadh eiticiúil bia agus ar bhithéagsúlacht, agus léireofar modhanna inbhuanaithe shlí bheatha na n-oileán trí líníocht, samhlacha, scannán, fuaim, scríbhneoireacht agus caint, chun feasacht a ardú maidir le bainistiú acmhainní na n-oileánach agus an chothromaíocht íogair idir cultúr agus nádúr. Freagraíonn an pailliún don téama, The Laboratory of the Future - a roghnaigh coimeádaí Biennale Architettura 2023, Lesley Lokko.
Cuirtear eispéireas tumthach i láthair leis an taispeántas, trí úsáid a bhaint as ábhair áitiúla a leagann béim ar oidhreacht thraidisiúnta gach oileáin; mar shampla málaí farraige déanta as rópaí caite iascaireachta, taipéis línéadaigh a léiríonn crios muirí na hÉireann agus saothar teibí de Sceilg Mhichíl déanta as olann caorach na Gaillimhe. Is leaca móra aolchloch áitiúil atá sa suiteán ó na hoileáin amach ón gcósta, Inis Meáin, suíomh Oidhreachta Domhanda UNESCO Sceilg Mhichíl agus Cliara. Trí sin a dhéanamh, aistríonn In Search of Hy-Brasil idir an ceantar áitiúil agus an chuid eile den domhan, idir gné na gcríoch agus na mothúcháin agus tugann sé deis do lucht féachana idirnáisiúnta eispéireas a bheith acu ar naisc idir an chreatlach shóisialta, tírdhreach cultúrtha agus éiceolaíocht na n-oileán seo. Is i nGaeilge atá an scríbhneoireacht, an chaint agus an ceol sa taispeántas seo.
Cuireann Ireland at Venice 2023 le láithreacht láidir na hÉireann ag Taispeántas Ailtireachta Idirnáisiúnta La Biennale di Venezia. Le blianta beaga anuas is iad Shelley McNamara agus Yvonne Farrell ó Grafton Architects a rinne coimeádú ar La Biennale Architettura 2018. I mbliana bhí na hailtirí as Éirinn, Emmett Scanlon, Alice Clancy agus Laurence Lord, páirteach ar fhoireann coimeádaithe Léiritheoir an Biennale, Lesley Lokko. Tacaíonn Cultúr Éireann freisin le tionscadal BothAnd Group, atá ag glacadh páirt i dTionscadail Speisialta an Choimeádaí ag an 18ú Taispeántas Ailtireachta Idirnáisiúnta arna choimeádú ag Lesley Lokko. Agus tacaíocht aige ó Chultúr Éireann, beidh tionscadal leis an ailtire Miriam Dunne le feiceáil in Time Space Existence, a bheidh ar siúl sa Veinéis ag an am céanna le La Biennale i mbliana.
Leanfaidh an taispeántas ar aghaidh sa Veinéis idir mí Bealtaine agus mí na Samhna agus rachaidh sé ar chamchuairt náisiúnta d’Éirinn ansin in 2024, le tacaíocht ón gComhairle Ealaíon. Athchruthóidh an turas gnéithe den suiteán ar na hoileáin agus féachfaidh an fhoireann coimeádaithe le scéal iontach a chruthú, agus tabharfar guthanna ó láithreacha imeallacha isteach i ngnáthchomhráite maidir lenár dtodhchaí dhomhanda. Foilseoidh léiritheoirí an tsuiteáin leabhar d’aistí agus cruthóidh siad scannán faisnéise.
Dúirt an tAire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán, Catherine Martin TD:
“Tá an-áthas orm go mbeidh Ireland in Venice 2023 oscailte amárach agus go bhfuil an taispeántas In Search of Hy-Brasil ag déanamh ionadaíocht ar Éirinn ag an 18ú Biennale Ailtireachta sa Veinéis. Scrúdaítear le In Search of Hy-Brasil agus é ag freagairt do chomhthéamaí an Biennale - dícharbónú agus díchoilíniú - an caidreamh idir oileáin na hÉireann agus a dtimpeallacht nádúrtha. Bhí go leor d’ailtireacht na hÉireann le feiceáil ag an Biennale le blianta beaga anuas, go háirithe ó roghnaíodh Shelly McNamara agus Yvonne Farrell ó Grafton Architects ina gcoimeádaithe Biennale in 2018. Níl aon amhras orm go leanfaidh foireann Hy-Brasil d’ionadaíocht dhaingean a dhéanamh ar ailtireacht na hÉireann sa Veinéis.”
Dúirt an tAire Stáit le Freagracht as an Gaeltacht agus Gnóthaí Gaeltachta, Patrick O’Donovan TD:
“Is mór an onóir dom Ireland in Venice 2023 a sheoladh. I m’Aire Stáit dom a bhfuil freagracht orm i leith na Gaeltachta, tá áthas ar leith orm go gcuireann an taispeántas ardán ar leith ar fáil don Ghaeilge áit a bhfaighidh daoine ó thíortha ar fud an domhain an deis í a chloisteáil agus daoine a fheiceáil á labhairt mar chuid de thaithí thumthach”.
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Nótaí an eagarthóra:
Is é La Biennale Architettura na Veinéise, a bheidh ar siúl ón 20 Bealtaine go dtí an 26 Samhain 2023, an t-ardán domhanda is tábhachtaí chun ailtireacht a thaispeáint a mbeidh an pobal, baill den tsochaí shibhialta, daoine aonair agus institiúidí páirteach ann. Tugann sé deis ar leith d'ailtirí na hÉireann dul i bhfeidhm ar lucht spéise idirnáisiúnta. Cuirfidh Ireland at Venice 2023 le láithreacht láidir na hÉireann ag La Biennale Architettura na Veinéise le blianta beaga anuas agus clú domhanda bainte amach ag na hIarscríbhinní 'Entanglement' agus 'Free Market' in 2021 agus 2018 faoi seach. Ba iad Shelley McNamara agus Yvonne Farrell ó Grafton Architects a choimeád 16ú La Biennale Architettura na Veinéise in 2018.
In Search of Hy-Brasil - Crios Muirí na hÉireann
Rinne an cúigear coimeádaithe staidéar ar thírdhreacha oileáin Inis Meáin, shuíomh Oidhreachta Domhanda UNESCO Sceilg Mhichíl agus Chliara trí líníocht, suirbhé, scannán, fuaim, samhail, léarscáil agus scéalta. Léireoidh an suiteán eispéireas tumthach a chruthóidh naisc idir an chreatlach shóisialta, tírdhreach cultúrtha agus éiceolaíocht na n-oileán seo, agus aistriú á dhéanamh idir an domhan agus an ceantar áitiúil, gné na gcríoch agus mothúchán.
"Taispeánfar leaca móra aolchloiche de thrí cinn de na hoileáin - Inis Meáin, Sceilg Mhichíl agus Cliara agus grinneall an aigéin a bhaineann leo - chomh maith le réimse taispeántais theagmhálacha tadhaill, a dhéanann ceiliúradh ar úsáid ábhair áitiúla ar bhealaí nuálacha agus neamhghnácha.
Áirítear orthu sin:
• Taipéis línéadaigh crochta a léiríonn castacht neamhghnách agus topagrafaíocht shaibhir chrios muirí na hÉireann agus níos faide i gcéin;
• Saothar teibí de Sceilg Mhichíl déanta as olann caorach na Gaillimhe, snáth a fíodh go traidisiúnta i muileann, déantar é a athchruthú sa phailliún faoi léiriú iomlán difriúil;
• Suirbhé ar Chliara, lena n-áirítear staidéar bitheolaíoch ar mhiocrorgánaigh atá i mbaol de bharr na géarchéime aeráide;
• Lear mór líníochtaí léirmhínithe a nochtann gnéithe de dhálaí maireachtála ar leith ar na hoileáin;
• Scannán agus fuaimdhreach d'Inis Meáin, a cheanglaíonn teanga, tírdhreach, farraige, am agus solas le chéile;
• Málaí farraige déanta as rópaí caite iascaireachta agus líonta leis an bhfotháirge ó tháirgeadh snátha;
• Léiriú graifíte de Pangaea, meabhrúchán ar an mórchríoch roinnte san am geolaíoch"
An Fhoireann Coimeádaithe:
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, Scoil na hAiltireachta, Ollscoil Luimnigh ó 2007. Tá stiúideo na tríú bliana á reáchtáil ag Peter in SAUL faoi láthair agus dírítear ar Chliara agus ar an gcaidreamh leanúnach atá aige le suirbhéanna Praeger agus Feehan.
Peter Cody PhD MScAAD DipArch BScArch MRIAI. Bhain sé céim amach in Institiúid Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath in 1990, bhain sé máistreacht san ailtireacht amach in Ollscoil Columbia, Nua-Eabhrac in 1996 agus PhD in Ollscoil RMIT, Melbourne in 2018. D'oibrigh sé le Alvaro Siza in Porto sular bhunaigh sé Boyd Cody Architects in 2000. Faoi láthair tá sé ina Stiúrthóir ar Boyd Cody Architects agus ina ollamh cúnta sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath. Thaispeáin sé léiriú ar shaothar Eileen Gray ag La Biennale na Veinéise 2018 agus cuireadh ar taispeáint roimhe sin é ag La Biennale in 2012 agus 2006 agus béim ar mhóintigh ídithe Lár Tíre na hÉireann. Chomhléirigh sé 'Line to Surface' ag Inaugural Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2007 le Peter Carroll.
Elizabeth Hatz Dioplóma AA / SAR / MSA. Is ailtire, ollamh agus léiritheoir ealaíne í, a bhíonn ag cleachtadh a ceirde agus ag roinnt a cuid ama idir poist chleachtais, taighde agus teagaisc ag OL agus KTH Stócólm. I measc na hoibre a rinne sí, tá Ceanncheathrú Kodak Gothenburg, Globe Arena Stócólm agus foirgnimh do AKSO-Nobel, Stócólm. Choimeád Hatz EVA 2010, imeacht ealaíne oirirc na hÉireann. Agus í i gceannas ar SAR (RIAI na Sualainne) bhunaigh sí Fargfabriken, radharc cáiliúil ealaíne agus ailtireachta i Stócólm, áit a bhfuil sí ina comhalta boird.
Mary Laheen BArch, MUBC, FRIAI. Bhain sí 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. Is údar í ar fhoilseacháin éagsúla a bhaineann le tírdhreach cultúrtha, agus déanann sí ionadaíocht d’Éirinn ar an gCoiste Eolaíochta Idirnáisiúnta um Thírdhreacha Cultúrtha, ICOMOS. I gcuideachta Aoibheann Ní Mhearáin, Ailtire, thaispeáin sí 'Landscape and Lens' ag léiriú saothar Jean Rénaudie ag La Biennale di Venezia 2018. Bhíodh an-cheangal i gcónaí ag Máire le hoileáin na hÉireann, go háirithe tírdhreach chlaíocha cloch teorainn Oileáin Árann. Déanann dúlra agus cultúr síorathraitheach na n-oileán eolas dá cuid oibre agus spreagann siad í i gcleachtadh agus i dteagasc na hailtireachta.
Joseph Mackey BArch, MRIAI. Bhain sé céim amach sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath in 2010. D'oibrigh sé le Ceardlann Tógála Renzo Piano i bPáras, Tom de Paor i mBaile Átha Cliath, Eric Parry Architects agus 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 Oideachais Ailtireachta Chorcaí. Cuireadh saothar Joseph ar taispeáint i ngailearaí RIBA i Londain in 2010 agus ag Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2022.
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- An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath
- Ollscoil Luimnigh
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- Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí
- Institiúid Ríoga Ailtirí na hÉireann
- Kavanagh Lighting
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- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Infomar
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