Re-imagining a Line (in search of the Esker Riada) - Artists Talk

Architecture at the Edge

Artist Talk  with photographers  Joe Laverty, Ruby Wallis &amp; Aidan O'Neill

15 Market St

Re-imagining a line (in search of the Esker Riada)
The Esker Riada / An Slí Mhór – is an ancient route, East-West, across the centre of Ireland, loosely following the geographical Eskers that were deposited from glacial riverbeds at the end of the last ice-age. Following the route mapped out by Hermann Geissel in his book: A Road on the Long Ridge, photographic artists Joe Laverty, Ruby Wallis and Aidan O'Neill have walked a section of the route, seeking to re-imagine the line across the map by paying close attention to the geological materiality of the land, exploring a multiplicity of possible meanings and layers.
Encountering this path is to find sites of social and political trauma, dereliction but also connection and belonging. Following Geissel’s meticulous maps, the artists will visually excavate hidden and buried signs of the ancient path, and explore its intersections with the contemporary, including the M6 motorway that criss-crosses the old road.