THE FUTURE (OF) MONUMENTS
This research interrogates the spatial and temporal conditions of the category of the monument under the discourse of the Anthropocene, interfacing with contexts including landscapes of land reclamation, the 'geology of media' and the 'techno-sphere', decoloniality and post-conflict narratives, and speculative futurisms. This ongoing research has developed a particular articulation of the monumental defined by ‘critical infrastructuralism’, as realised via tools and methodologies that reveal the collision of local and planetary scale spatial and temporal encounters which underpin the structures of the everyday.
Publications
Inhabiting Infrastructure (2021) The Glasgow School of Art.
Occupying Infrastructure (2020) ism Architecture Magazine, 2. pp. 26-29.
Conference Papers
Land of Lunacy - in progress research (2023) A Living Land: Landscape, Place and Care GSA – UCA Research Symposium, 9 November, The Glasgow School of Art and University of Central Asia, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan [online]
Decolonising Land Reclamation: Dis-entangling the Proto-geology of Belfast City Harbour (2019), Making Public, 8 January 2019, PLACE Built Environment Centre, Belfast.
Sounding Scales: Monumental Landscapes in the Networked Anthropocene (2018), Tirana Architecture Week 2018: [CO]HABITATION TACTICS - Imagining Future Spaces in Architecture, City and Landscape, 20-23 September 2018, POLIS University, Tirana
Tertiary Memory and Nonlinear Landscapes: Monumentalising the ‘geologic turn’ in contemporary art (2018), The Place of Memory and Memory of Place International Conference, 16 June 2018, Birkbeck, London.
Decolonising Landscape and the Entangled Visuality of the Anthropocene (2018), Through a Northern Lens: An Auto-ethnographic Turn, 26 October 2018, Glasgow
Monuments in the Age of the Anthropocene (2017), Troubling Time Conference, 1-2 June 2017, University of Manchester, UK.
Echoing the Past: A Proposal for a Counter-Monument (2015), Art I Memory I Place Research Seminar, 13 November 2015, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Exhibitions
A Wh()ly Ring(ing) (2018), The Fashion and Textile Design Centre, Derry
Geo Cymatic Infiltrator (Phat Man & Tallboy) (2017), in Tiny deaths: glitches, spells, interruptions, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry
The Chronotopes (2017), Platform Arts, Belfast
Public Art Projects
Stroke City Racing (2013), Derry-Londonderry, City of Culture 2013
Daughter of a Voice (2011), El Bruc, Catalonia, Spain