Knowledge Flow
Knowledge Flow
Exhibited Ballina Arts Centre, 2019
Planned for NCAD Gallery, 2020 - Cancelled due to Covid 19 restrictions
Knowledge Flow
Exhibited Ballina Arts Centre, 2019
Planned for NCAD Gallery, 2020
Currently in preparation for 2021+
An interactive installation using vibrant felt installations, stencils and Discovery Pens, Knowledge Flow explores how we try to capture and hold onto knowledge. In the past, this was done through tradition, custom, and ritual. The fact that these methods might not be possible in a digital society made me want to investigate how the bonds created by flows of knowledge between people and generations will be created and strengthened in a digital society.
In 2018 Digital Transformations awarded me the inaugural Digital Society bursary for my project Knowledge Flow. For the exhibition in Ballina Arts Centre, I contextualised the story of the Salmon of Knowledge through my own questions and observations about the flow of information via technology in contemporary life. My narrative wove its way through a mixture of audio recordings, objects and images. With support from Arts and Disability Ireland, Discovery Pens made the work accessible to the visual impaired.
In Irish mythology, Fionn is a young warrior who leaves home to learn the skills and obtain the wisdom to be an adult. His mentor Finegas is desperate to catch the elusive Salmon of Knowledge because the first person to taste it will have infinite wisdom. However Fionn accidentally tastes it before Finegas. In a digitised society, where automation mediates every aspect of our lives, what will happen to knowledge of the self, others, nature, words and symbols, and to the unique experience of human sharing? Can a society based on digitalechnology ever permit deep and personal experiences?
2020/2021. Knowledge Flow was to be shown in the NCAD Gallery in 2020, Unfortunately, this exhibition had to be postponed.by the EU’s Creative Europe programme, In Public, In Particular develops and promotes participatory art methods and situation-specific art among European audiences. International street happenings are one of the project’s key tools. The Cuppa banner was made specifically for a street parade in Antwerp in November 2018 as the culmination of the project.