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Micheal Keating | PICTURE: Graham Patterson
A DEBUT solo exhibition by Limerick-based musician and media artist Mícheál Keating, will be open for one weekend only at Spacecraft Artist Studios, Mungret Court.
'Live Landscapes' charts five years of engagement with rural Limerick landscape through processes of musical improvisation, field recording, photography, video and writing.
Mícheál Keating is a musician and media artist from Knockaderry, now based in Limerick City.
Keating’s work casts Limerick in a contemplative and uncanny light — foregrounding hauntology, immanence, and becoming in the landscape, while tracing entanglements between human, non-human, and land.
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His artistic practice spans sound composition, improvisation, and performance, as well as photography, video, writing, and generative systems. He synthesises these elements into uncanny multimedia explorations of the rural Limerick landscape.
This exhibition also marks the release of Keating’s new publication and album of the same name.
‘Live Landscapes’ is an 108-page book of 120mm landscape photography produced in collaboration with designer Hugh Heffernan. It is accompanied by an 18-track CD of improvised performances recorded by Keating in outdoor locations across County Limerick, his voice and electroacoustic sounds coalescing with the rural soundscapes.
Keating has released 2 critically acclaimed LPs as singer/songwriter/producer of the art-rock band Bleeding Heart Pigeons (2008-2020), and he currently performs with improvised noise collective Péist, post-rock band The Low Field and singer/songwriter Laura Duff. He is also active as a music producer, media art tech, and festival organiser with Féile na Gréine.
This body of work channels a desire to build collective attention towards the complexity of the land, and to cultivate agency and care in our relationship with place.
The 'Live Landscapes' launch event will take place at Spacecraft Artist Studios, Mungret Court today, July 18, from 7-9pm, and the exhibition will be open from July 19 to 20, 11am-5pm.
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