This event forms part of a series of discussions that Celina will be offering with experts in a wide range of disciplines and practices, to shed light on the themes of her exhibition ‘The Gate, or this disk of the sun will turn to the disk of the moon and our children sold for silver’.
Each discussion will be followed by a mindful performance, Swan Cloud, A Ceremony for Souls by artist and educator Angela Monks McDonagh.
Celina Muldoon is an artist based in the Northwest of Ireland. With live performance at the core of her practice she uses moving image, installation, sound and AI to develop large scale environments within which audiences engage with the socio-political structures and the body. Muldoon has exhibited nationally and internationally and has received multiple funding awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. She has participated in prestigious international residencies including the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and the International Curatorial Programme in New York.
Dr Carla Harper is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science that joined the Trinity College Dublin Botany Department in March 2020, and lectures on the evolution of fossil plants and fungi, palaeontology, mycology, and plant-fungus interactions. Her research areas include palaeomycology, palaeobotany, and modern (living) fungal biodiversity. Fieldwork has taken Carla around the world from the US to Ireland to Antarctica. She is a world authority on the study of fossil fungi and interactions between fossil plants and fungi, and how fungi have contributed to the evolution of plants. One of her current, long-term research projects is to document the diversity of fungi in Ireland, especially in peatlands. Life outside of research includes hunting for mushrooms with her husband, two black cats, scientific illustration, and growing carnivorous plants in her balcony bogs in the Dublin city centre.