“Diagonal Acts” is an formidable new multi-platform venture by Marie Farrington spanning 2025. Starting at Kunstverein Aughrim in Spring 2025, and supported by the Arts Council of Eire, the venture continues with public workshops at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, and exhibitions at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon and Commonage Initiatives, London.
“Diagonal Acts” arises from analysis into geological and archaeological imaginations of gaps, openings and thresholds, exploring the boundaries of the physique within the panorama from varied counter-topographical views. The venture expands on and elaborates a hybrid apply of ‘Theatre/Archaeology’ (Shanks/Pearson, 2001) exploring symmetries between staged shows and discipline work through their continuous renegotiation of categorical boundaries and their shared curiosity in reminiscence, partiality, fragment, hint and assemblage.
By way of intrinsically contingent materials interventions and participatory gestures, Diagonal Acts excavates the ‘/’ in Theatre/Archaeology as a web site of interdisciplinarity, convergence, and borders reworked, articulated by the sculptural place of the diagonal line. Pondering throughout and between websites by conditional modes of encounter, “Diagonal Acts” explores diagonality as a relational and collaborative stance, briefly ‘leaning’ in opposition to contexts, communities and histories.
The fabric outcomes in “Diagonal Acts” are supported by a spread of collaborations, and related by a public programme of generative components devised to critically have interaction audiences in particular person and on-line, enhancing and increasing participation and entry. From an olivine entry ramp to a digital archiving repository, potentialities for encounter are crafted and thought of throughout platforms.
The exhibition “Diagonal Acts” at Kunstverein Aughrim is on view all through Spring, closing on 31 Might 2025. Kunstverein Aughrim is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and by Wicklow County Arts Workplace by the annual Strategic Mission Award Scheme.
at Kunstverein Aughrim
till Might 31, 2025
