05.03.15 – 19.07.15
HOME\SICK
HOME\SICK: POST-DOMESTIC BLISS explores how our homes might be reconfigured and reimagined as centres of connection in spite of emigration, of intimacy in spite of digital distraction, of food and energy production rather than consumption. Our unhealthy and socially divisive addiction to home ownership and traditional idealisation of home and family are out of date for a mobile, networked and fragmented society. This experience looks at the meanings of home, from rubbish to robots and microbes to micro-dwellings, asking whether the changing nature of home is for better or worse.
Curators
Anna R. Davies - Davies is Professor of Geography and Director of the Environmental Governance Research Group TCD
Anne Enright - Novelist ,The Gathering ,The Green Road
Ali Grehan - Boards of the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland
Alexandra Deschamps Sonsino - Interaction designer, product designer, entrepreneur and international speaker
Lynn Scarff- Former acting Director of Science Gallery Dublin
Highlights
Exhibits
What are the birds singing about when we’re not there to listen? Do you want a dose of nature indoors?
The Drake Equation is American astronomer Frank Drake’s attempt at estimating the probability of communicable intelligent life evolving on another planet in the Milky Way…
Write a postcard home! Send a message to an address, a person, a country, a state of mind, or a place that you call home…
On display are Ritual Machines for three different families who experience regular absence from home due to work….
Natural Fuse creates a gallery wide network of electronically assisted plants that act both as energy providers and as circuit breakers to prevent carbon footprint overload.
A personal microalgae farm is an environmentally friendly way to produce a complete nutritional source that grows at the highest rates through photosynthesis, fixing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
The Northbank Lighthouse sits at the entrance to Dublin, at the mouth of the Liffey and has been guiding travellers home since 1882….
This installation addresses the transformative power of a home in a world where 1.6 billion people live in inadequate housing.
Extracts of the HERE & NOW consists of two installed theatre pieces condensing the concepts of HERE & NOW…
Bringing Health Home is a collection of products that allow monitoring of health and wellbeing in the home