collaboration, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland ||| As part of my Arts Council of Ireland bursary award, I have been working with Rotterdam-based arts collective varia on developing skills and understanding for building data servers based on feminist and more-than-human research. This has included opening a collaboration...

event, Manorhamilton and Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland ||| I was invited to programme events for Designweek 2023 in Leitrim by Creative Heartlands and Leitrim Design House. The programme included a one-day workshop on artist-led servers by Rotterdam-based collective varia and a panel discussion on myth and Irish...

event, Blessington Library, Co. Wicklow, Ireland ||| Three artists present new works about the Poulaphuca Reservoir, in a project that I have led since 2021. Visual artist Saidhbhín Gibson (Kildare) has drawn from an 1842 etching that presented the Poulaphuca waterfalls before the area was flooded, when it was a...

publication, University of Performing Arts and Music, Austria ||| A chapter in the book 'Swap Spaces', which documents the 2022 project 'Swap Space' which I was a collaborating artist on. The chapter is a poetic reflection that documents how the work came together, and how I saw my own role in the broader...

talk / book launch, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria ||| Presented a prerecorded talk at Kunstverein Graz as part of the launch of the book Swap Spaces, where I discussed how 'tidal thinking' as a collaborative practice was used during the project 'Swap Space'.

exhibition of new artwork, How It's Made, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, Ireland ||| A new artwork was created drawing links between electricity and myth/magic, from the perspective of my first mobile phone. Developed for 'How It's Made' and commissioned by curator Valeria Ceregini. The artwork is a 3-screen video essay...

exhibition of new artwork, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland ||| A final event for the project 'Waking the Land', the collective at ^ built a banner and staged a social event at ^ in Manorhamilton, Leitrim. The banner will be activated next year, and a publication will follow.

social events, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland ||| As part of the collective ^, we are coordinating new artist-led social events each Thursday in August 2023 for the project Waking the Land. Each week a different artist will hold space at ^. More information at https://waking.land

video interview, Jackie Clarke Collection, Ballina, Co. Mayo ||| Interview film by Anula Productions and supported by the Jackie Clarke Collection about the artwork 'Assembly', created as Decade of Centenaries Artist in Residence 2022. View the video interview:...

documentation in publication by Dr. El Putnam, MDPI Arts 2023, 12(3) ||| Dr. El Putnam's publication features a philosophical response to the artwork Assembly (2022) by Shane Finan as part of an evolving Irish cosmotechnics. The paper explores this alongside work by Venice biennale exhibitors ANNEX and Putnam's own...

publication and talk, Kielderhead Wildwood Project, Northern Stage, Newcastle ||| A chapter in the book contains a photographic artwork series based on time spent at the Kielderhead Wildwood Project on the residency 'Wood Wide Web'. The publication was launched at Northern Stage, Newcastle, where I presented the...

publication, COMPOST Issue 3: Water (online/LA) ||| A prose essay about the entanglement of myth, ecology and technology at the Poulaphuca Reservoir, Wicklow, published in Issue 3 of the collaborative online magazine COMPOST. Quote from the article: 'Once accepted, Púca then takes the person on a wild journey...