Everything That Rises
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Audio/video installation: 16:9 1080p HD looped video with audio track
Location: projected out through a window from inside the Linenhall Arts Centre, at the end of a public passageway linking to the Foyer of the Linenhall. Coordinates: 53°51'28.9"N 9°17'50.4"W (53.858025, -9.297330)
Part of FIND Art Project 2014, a series of temporary public artworks/installations/events in the town of Castlebar (Co Mayo, Ireland) curated/mentored by Alice Maher and Aideen Barry in association with Mayo County Council and the Linenhall Arts Centre.
FIND ran from 29th March - 26th April 2014.
The video/audio installation Everything That Rises Must Converge presents what appears to be a disembodied, regenerating flame, but is in fact footage of a torrent of water. The imagery transcends its physical source and becomes its opposite: water turns to fire in a trompe l’oeil visual/aural 'alchemical' transformation, acknowledging Mario Costa's proposal that new technologies are creating conditions for a new kind of expression of the Sublime
The title Everything That Rises Must Converge is by way of French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and his concept that everything in the universe is in a state of evolution towards a maximum level of consciousness, the ‘Omega Point’.
An evocation of dynamic energy, the work’s location - a public access passageway off a main thoroughfare - added a dramatic spatial element to the work both visually and aurally, and also a transformed experience of a generally perceived ‘dead area’ for the passer by. The work was experienced from the street from sunset untill 11pm daily over a period of four weeks.
An evocation of dynamic energy, the work’s location - a public access passageway off a main thoroughfare - added a dramatic spatial element to the work both visually and aurally, and also a transformed experience of a generally perceived ‘dead area’ for the passer by. The work was experienced from the street from sunset untill 11pm daily over a period of four weeks.