Oh Everywhere There's Gladness
The Lord Mayors Pavillion, Fitzgerald's Park, Cork
January 2018
Curated by Alison Fogarty, Sample Studios/Tactic Curator in Residence 2016-2017
Oh Everywhere There’s Gladness is the first exhibition in TACTIC’s programme for 2018. In conjunction with Cork Photo Gallery, TACTIC takes the premise of it’s show from Cork Photo Gallery’s historic location of the Lord Mayor’s Pavillion purpose built in 1903 for one of the four International Exhibitions held in Cork City between the years 1852 and 1903.
The International Exhibitions were once referred to ‘timekeepers of progress’ with their purpose to record and display advancement in industry, science, technology and arts from many countries across the globe at that certain period in time. The Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace in London in 1851 is the best-known of these. Cork City followed closely in 1852 with the first of the exhibitions intended to stimulate the local economy after the disaster of the Famine. In 1902 &1903 the Cork International Exhibition was held on the grounds of what later became known Fitzgerald’s Park.
Oh Everywhere There’s Gladness aims to pay homage to those International Exhibitions through two artists contemporary interpretations.
Maeve Lynch’s invisible rebuilding of the various pavilions by mapping soundscapes throughout the park for the duration of the exhibition allows the old fairs to be re-imagined in the digital age.
Michael Cleary’s re-purposing of found industrial materials questions their use or need in today’s society contrasting their absolute necessity throughout the Industrial revolution of the 1800s.
For the exhibition Maeve Lynch has developed Drawn From A Different Scale 1.1, a soundscape retracing the Art Gallery building from the International Exhibitions of 1902&1903. The work acts as an invisible survey of the original site footprint and explores the innovative and illusionary materials of the International Exhibition buildings. The sound works have been developed on site throughout the duration of the show culminating in a listening event on January 24th at 12.30pm which will include a Curatorial Tour of the exhibition and surrounding site by Curator Alison Fogarty.
Image: Maeve Lynch
Tour and Listening Event:
Date: Wednesday 24th January
Time: 12.30pm – 1pm
Location: Meet at The Lord Mayors Pavilion/Cork Photo Gallery (Small Red brick lodge inside The Main Gate), Fitzgeralds Park
The event will take a maximum of 30 minutes and will include a tour of the exhibition, a walk through the park in relation to the International Exhibitions and end with a short listening event of Maeve Lynch’s sound work Drawn From A Different Scale 1.1
PLEASE NOTE: You will need a device that has internet access to listen to the Drawn From A Different Scale 1.1 and a set of headphones.
The work will be available to listen to after the event in the Lord Mayors Pavilion along with an accompanying artist book.
Date: Wednesday 24th January
Time: 12.30pm – 1pm
Location: Meet at The Lord Mayors Pavilion/Cork Photo Gallery (Small Red brick lodge inside The Main Gate), Fitzgeralds Park
The event will take a maximum of 30 minutes and will include a tour of the exhibition, a walk through the park in relation to the International Exhibitions and end with a short listening event of Maeve Lynch’s sound work Drawn From A Different Scale 1.1
PLEASE NOTE: You will need a device that has internet access to listen to the Drawn From A Different Scale 1.1 and a set of headphones.
The work will be available to listen to after the event in the Lord Mayors Pavilion along with an accompanying artist book.