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Baoth Mooney's practice moves between visual art, performance and music, and her recent PhD work has researched ecopsychosocial relationships of care through textile in human-human contexts. Finan's work is assembled from interactive digital media and includes organising events and collaborating with universities, museums, artists, fungi, lichen, birds, ants and trees. Kelly experiments with the rural landscape, developing works in a posthuman relationship with land and dreamscape. McMorrow has a mixed media practice, primarily painting and collage, and leads community-facing educational and collaborative projects.
In 2022, they began working on a project that considered grief and the ritual of the wake, called Waking the Land. This considered environmental grief from the perspective of Benbo Mountain, the closest mountain to Manorhamilton, where prospecting licences for heavy metal mining were handed out by the Irish state in 2022. They were inspired by philosopher Judith Butler and her writings about the need to establish ‘grievability’ in relation to people, places, living organisms and environments. They were taken with Butler advocating that: ...in order to value any of these things we must be willing to grieve their loss. And in order to grieve, we must value something enough before we lose it. You can read more about their work here: https://waking.land/
In 2022, they began working on a project that considered grief and the ritual of the wake, called Waking the Land. This considered environmental grief from the perspective of Benbo Mountain, the closest mountain to Manorhamilton, where prospecting licences for heavy metal mining were handed out by the Irish state in 2022. They were inspired by philosopher Judith Butler and her writings about the need to establish ‘grievability’ in relation to people, places, living organisms and environments. They were taken with Butler advocating that: ...in order to value any of these things we must be willing to grieve their loss. And in order to grieve, we must value something enough before we lose it. You can read more about their work here: [waking.land](https://waking.land/)
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