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23 to 25 May 2013

Forest research samples featured in modern art exhibition


The power2 +   roots   exhibition, at Pallas Projects / Studios in Dublin 8, by artists Dave Madigan and Méadhbh O'Connor set out to explore linkages between networks and energy systems, both natural and man-made.
Méadhbh O'Connor used an excavated Sitka spruce stump / root system from WP3 in her installation. This set the scorched and charred root system atop a mound of coal, resulting in a stark, brooding and wasted landscape, lying spent and inert beside the other artist's moving and active contraption. The object was to symbolise the act of burning a natural substance to necessitate human activities! This fits well with the theme of research work for WP3, where the sustainability of harvesting stump and root material for energy generation will be examined.

In the foreground, Dave Madigan's modern contraption places the wasted landscape in stark contrast behind it.


The tree stump was reported as having a spindly but strong presence in the room, leaving the audience with a poignant and poetic sympathy for its fate. Perhaps food for thought for busy forest researchers as they go about collecting samples?






January 2013

CForRep funded!


Word cloud describing the context of the project's brief (Wordle, 2013).









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