Karaoke, ritual and ecology at former salmon hatchery

Connemara’s Inagh Valley will be the location for a two-day performance event this Saturday and Sunday, August 26 and 27. The theme will be Performance Ecologies and the venue is Interface, a workspace for visual artists, and formerly a largescale salmon hatchery, built for the PJ Carroll cigarette company in the 1980s,.

For the event, curated by artists Áine Phillips and Alannah Robins, six artists from Ireland, America and Sweden will respond to the unique local environment and create new forms and dimensions of relationship with the place.

Eileen Hutton, in The Microecologies of the Inagh Valley, will conduct a series of workshops in and with the water on site at the hatchery. These will involve nets, waders, petri dishes and a stereo microscope. Participants will co-create an underwater-world installation using photo microscopic images

A Fish in the Shape of a Voice by Day Magee will address the original function of the salmon hatchery at Interface and will explore a symbolic germination and continuation of salmon at the space. In this work, the salmon will persist as an idea to be experienced, via the human body and expressed via words.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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