Some Irish Mothers
A Quiet Revolution 1916
Conor O' Grady
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“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” Virginia Woolf
You have accessed this Link by scanning one of the QR code posters, which accompany the gallery installation Some Irish Mothers by visual artist Conor O' Grady at the Linenhall Arts Centre which is included in the Mayo Collaborative 1916 Commemorative Group Exhibition, Kathleen Lynn: Outsider on the Inside. A series of centenary exhibitions by Thirteen artists in five galleries around County Mayo from 26 March - 24 April 2016
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To access a transcript of Kathleen Lynn' personal Diaries click here
The footage represented in this work are re-appropriated from an ESB documentary, which has been taken from a YouTube clip entitled Rural Electrification and depicts some of the first electricity poles being erected in Ireland. The imagery has been appropriated to represent male, industrial processes and social structures which promote gender disparity. The original footage can be found here.
The moving images are projected in the gallery space and accompanied by a clothes-line installation. You can find more information about the installation here
The Linenhall Arts Centre installation, The rural interventions and this online presence are meant to act as three aspects of the same work, each element informing the next, allowing the viewer to control their experience of the work being viewed.
The QR Code allows you to react to a still image in a traditional way, however, once you scan it with your mobile device, you begin to engage with the work in a light of technological modernitiy. The experience can be self-directed or simply used as a device for engaging with the work, a little further.
You can follow the links in the text, interact through social media or follow the interactive walking-tour-map to discover the interventionist aspects of the work.
Appropriated Moving Imagery, Rural Electrification, ESB.