draft fissure

Galway Arts Centre

12th April - 25th May, 2024

Galway Bay opens out into the Atlantic Ocean: a fluid, unfathomable, paradoxical space of deep ocean currents and paths of maritime traversal, intricate and precarious ecosystems, increasingly mapped and monitored through emerging technologies. draft fissure engages with scientific and industrial practices that are transforming our relationships with the ocean, from the extraction of the seabed through deep sea mining, to research into the effects of climate change on deep-water corals. O’Brien’s time on marine expeditions off Galway’s coast shapes this exhibition, which brings together sound and visual installations, decommissioned materials, and archives of Irish scientific work that has offered ways to map, understand, and vision the Atlantic. draft fissure puts pressure on extractive imaginaries of ocean environments, and attunes to networked oceanic knowledges and communities navigating the intensified changes of climate emergency below the surface.

draft fissure was developed through a UCD Parity Studios Artist Residency with iCRAG and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Kildare County Council.