The Bones / from three Pulse Events
An upcoming film produced by Kunstverein Aughrim, to be screened as part of Medusa In Pieces, at VISUAL, Carlow, following the development of Medusa In Pieces by Sonia Shiel, filmed by Jenny Brady and Barry Lynch, with sound by Liam O’Callaghan. These events document the collaborations of artist Sonia Shiel with gaming researcher Benjamin Hanussek; theatre director Anne Bogart; and writer Elvia Wilk at Kunstverein Aughrim, and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.
KUNSTVEREIN AUGHRIM
The Pulse Event Series takes its name from Elvia Wilk's analysis of Karen Russell's description of blossoming in The Bad Graft. Russell’s short story describes the relationship between the Joshua tree and the yucca moth as a metaphor for co-dependence between us and nature, and the couple at the centre of her story. Neither the moth nor the tree can survive without each other. Their relationship is consummated in a tremendous blossoming referred to by a local Mojave desert ranger as a “pulse event.” Such a term is associated with bomb test-sites, when a measurable electromagnetic pulse occurs. Invariably – a pulse event is also an immeasurable event of the heart. As a series of workshops, devised by Sonia Shiel in collaboration with Kunstverein Aughrim, 3 Pulse Events generated opportunities for critique, and collaboration, to advance the narrative of Shiel’s project towards the three acts of Medusa in Pieces, at VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art.