Libraries of Rest | Ciara Barker at The Dock
St. George's Terrace, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, N41T2X2
Tel: 071 965 0828
Web: https://www.thedock.ie/exhibitions/libraries-of-rest
Email: thedockartscentre@gmail.com
Event Details
Libraries of Rest by Ciara Barker.
Opening Reception: Saturday 23 August, 2-4pm.
Libraries of Rest by Ciara Barker is an immersive exhibition that invites visitors to imagine the future of restful spaces and practices. Libraries of Rest combines installation, gameplay, sound and light, inhabiting a space between visual art, immersive environment and critical theory, centered on collective well-being.
Barker’s investigation of rest as a method of resistance is informed by a number of critical works, including texts by Tricia Hersey, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, Sonya Renee Taylor and Dr. Devon Price. This scholarship is grounded in its examination of structural inequality and rest as a racial, disability rights and social justice issue that disproportionately affects marginalised communities.
This exhibition is curated by Aoife Donnellan with a soundscape by Mankyy. Image: Ciara Barker, Libraries of Rest at transmediale studio in Berlin. Image: Ciara Barker, Libraries of Rest at transmediale studio in Berlin. Photo by Katie O’Neill.