EL Putnam: Under the Feet of Shadows

Dates: 14 - 18 September, 2024; Gallery hours: Wed to Sat, 1 - 6 pm

Opening: 14 September, 2024, 1 to 3 pm

Performance: 21 September, as part of Livestock: Creation Myths

Location: The Mart Gallery, 190A Rathmines Road Lwr, Dublin 6, Irelan

Under the Feet of Shadows is a multimedia artwork developed by EL Putnam and Mike McCormack that creatively explores human-technological relations, speculating other futures in these times of extreme change and crisis. It tells a fictional origin myth of a data center in Kilalla, Ireland, where the cyborg Terra is called upon to negotiate between the spiritus of technology, the environment, and human society as an entangled ecology. The work merges science fiction with folklore, imagined and actual mythologies with histories of technology in Ireland.

This exhibition kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, MART Gallery, and CIACLA Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles where an iteration of the exhibition will be exhibited in 2025.

For more details, see Mart website

Image by Krystyna Mikava