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Mosses and other small beings issue an invitation to dwell for a time right at the limits of ordinary perception.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss
This writing workshop draws upon the slow, collaborative process behind the film Bund Walkers and Cloud Chambers, inviting people to open their perceptions and minds to the marvellous atmospheres of bog-land ecologies, as realised through Fiona McDonald’s exhibition Inhale Exhale: Ecologies that Refuse to Behave.
The workshop will begin with an introduction by the artist, Fiona McDonald, to her exhibition. Jessica Foley will then guide the gathering through an imaginative meditation before inviting everyone to explore and experience the exhibition, with a slower mode of attention, through observation and writing.
The aim of the session is to bring visitors to the exhibition into closer relationship with the poetics of the work. This session will invite people to sit and/or lie down on the carpeted floor of the gallery, to close eyes, to rest, to receive, and to write through the senses: expanding upon a four-letter word glossary for radios, and experimenting with the ancient form of the Snám Suad (floating with the sages).
Writing materials will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own notebook if preferred.
Bio
Jessica Foley is a poet from Offaly, living and working, in North Dublin City. Her multimodal practice draws upon visual and conceptual art, education and ecology, and histories and practices of communication. Her work is informed by conceptual and installation art, and by experimental practices in art, film-making and writing, and socio-technical research in telecommunications. Her writing and research emerges through imaginative call and response, with people and place, through processes of deep listening, slow looking, embodied improvisation and play.
She is currently Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT).
Image: Fiona Mc Donald, Cloud Chamber (868MHz Transmitter), 2026, Ultraviolet grow light, electronics, custom software, LoRa radio, acrylic enclosure, linear actuator, CO₂ sensor, circulation fans, 14 segment display, living sphagnum capillifolium (red bog-moss), Photography Mark Steadman.
