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SUMMARY:A Spontaneous Cairn
DTSTAMP:20260515T213750Z
DTSTART:20260523T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, 23 May from 2-5pm Ormston House will host A Spont
	aneous Cairn at\nthe Record Room\, Limerick. Join us for an informal after
	noon event of moving\nimage artworks and performative lectures. Admission 
	is free and booking is not\nnecessary.\n\nThese works were selected from a
	n open call\, originally issued in late 2025\,\ninviting submissions for a
	n artist to be included in the Limerick iteration of\nour touring exhibiti
	on\, Memory of a Free Festival. We sought work that resonated\nwith the th
	ematics of this group exhibition: countercultural\, DIY\, and\ngrassroots 
	movements\, art as activism\, the case for/against nuclear power\,\nfestiv
	als as sites of alternative social order and music as catalyst for social\
	nand political change.\n\nThe title is taken from a line in Orla Barry’s n
	ewly commissioned installation\nKodak Moon\; “we will lay these caring roc
	ks in a spontaneous cairn”. This refers\nto a now legendary occurrence at 
	the 1978 anti-nuclear festival in Carnsore\nPoint\, whereby attendees gath
	ered stones to build a cairn.\n\nThis event includes contributions from Ch
	loe Brenan\, Mary Sue Connolly\, Yvanna\nGreene\, David Lawless\, Martina 
	O’Brien\, Marie Phelan\, and Deirdre Southey.\n\nOrganised by Ormston Hous
	e with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland through\nthe Touring of Wo
	rk Scheme.
URL:https://cal.gravitons.org/event/a-spontaneous-cairn
LOCATION:Record Room - 46-47 Catherine St\, Prior's-Land\, Limerick\, V94 T
	2V3
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ainriail
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>On Saturday, 23 May from 2-5pm Ormston Hous
	e will host <em>A Spontaneous Cairn</em>&nbsp;at the Record Room, Limerick
	. Join us for an informal afternoon event of moving image artworks and per
	formative lectures. Admission is free and booking is not necessary.</p><p>
	These works were selected from an open call, originally issued in late 202
	5, inviting submissions for an artist to be included in the Limerick itera
	tion of our touring exhibition, <em>Memory of a Free Festival</em>.&nbsp;W
	e sought work that resonated with the thematics of this group exhibition: 
	countercultural, DIY, and grassroots movements, art as activism, the case 
	for/against nuclear power, festivals as sites of alternative social order 
	and music as catalyst for social and political change. </p><p>The title is
	 taken from a line in Orla Barry’s newly commissioned installation Kodak M
	oon; “we will lay these caring rocks in a spontaneous cairn”. This refers 
	to a now legendary occurrence at the 1978 anti-nuclear festival in Carnsor
	e Point, whereby attendees gathered stones to build a cairn. </p><p>This e
	vent includes contributions from Chloe Brenan, Mary Sue Connolly, Yvanna G
	reene, David Lawless, Martina O’Brien, Marie Phelan, and Deirdre Southey.<
	/p><p>Organised by Ormston House with funding from the Arts Council of Ire
	land through the Touring of Work Scheme.</p>
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