Skinnydipping with the Screamers

Magan, Manchán; Hartigan, Marianne

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“…Bealtaine is one of Ireland's ancient quarter day festivals, celebrated during early May and marking the beginning of summer. 2 This pagan ritual has been reinvigorated in the 21st century with the Fire Festival at the hill of Uisneach, a site of long spiritual and political significance at the centre of Ireland (Magan 2022;Armao 2023). According to the Dinnseanchas (early Irish lore of notable places first passed down orally and later transcribed by Medieval monks), the hill of Uisneach is where a druid named Mide lit the first fire in Ireland: "and the fire spread throughout the whole of Erin, and for seven years was it ablaze.…”

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The Question Concerning Technology in Ireland?: Art, Decoloniality and Speculations of an Irish Cosmotechnics

Putnam

2023

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In this article, the process of speculating an Irish cosmotechnics is instigated by taking a decolonial approach to technics and technology in Ireland with a focus on three artworks: Assembly by Shane Finan, Interlooping by EL Putnam, and Entanglement by Annex. Each work relates to a different aspect of Irish technological history, from its national beginnings to its current role in global cloud computing networks, engaging with the materialities of technologies with a focus on technologies of communication, agriculture, and digital infrastructures. Countering a colonial narrative of modernist progression, where the implementation of technologies through the cultivation of land and society is put in the service of economic “development,” these three artworks treat technologies with ambivalence, placing emphasis on their material qualities and impacts. This ambivalence, where it is implemented critically yet also functions as the means of producing artistic works, enables what Catherine Walsh refers to as decolonial cracks, introducing a means of working and thinking otherwise with technology in ways that diverge from current practices of coloniality.

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“…The quarter festivals include Imbloc or Ormelg (February 1), Bealtaine (May 1), Lughnasa or Lammas (August 1), and Samain (November 1). These festivals have roots in Irish mythology (Dames 2000) while also corresponding to different stages of harvest (Magan 2022).…”

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The Question Concerning Technology in Ireland?: Art, Decoloniality and Speculations of an Irish Cosmotechnics

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2023

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