Homeland 2022 Master (AW2)
For the past nine years, Homelands has lived up to its name and its remit, welcoming original film and video artworks from all over the world, each of them exploring the nature of home and community, what it means to have or not have a home ‘land’ but also what it means to be human. This year artists also had the theme of 'Through Light and Shade' to respond to. The isolation wrought by the pandemic is visible in many of the entries, achieved through highly original computer-realized imagery, distorted, layered, glaring and interwoven as well as live performance and sometimes a stylized mix of the two.
For the past nine years, Homelands has lived up to its name and its remit, welcoming original film and video artworks from all over the world, each of them exploring the nature of home and community, what it means to have or not have a home ‘land’ but also what it means to be human.
This year artists also had the theme of 'Through Light and Shade' to respond to. The isolation wrought by the pandemic is visible in many of the entries, achieved through highly original computer-realized imagery, distorted, layered, glaring and interwoven as well as live performance and sometimes a stylized mix of the two.
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Sarah Edmondson – Visual
Kieran Sheridan – Audio
Title of Film: An Balún Bán
Length and Year: 3’42” (2020-23)
Artist Statement, Project
An Balún Bán is an homage to the 1950s fantasy short film Le Balloon Rouge. It is a
celebration of the creative collaborations, conversations and sense of community between
artists and within art spaces in Dublin. It highlights the importance of these working
relationships and friendships. The backdrop is Dublin’s north inner city, a quickly changing
landscape in which artists lose their place as it becomes gentrified. The characters move in
and out of shadows, interact with buildings and architectural features and pass back and
forth balloons in a cyborgesque fashion, conscious of their impending doom.
The visual artist includes symbols and iconography from the ongoing themes she explores
in her practice including her concerns about the commercialisation of the space race and
the pursuit of knowledge as a decoy for colonisation. The audio for An Balún Bán, designed
by Kieran Sheridan, blends field recordings, synthesisers, textural audio processing and
recurring rhythmical themes displaced throughout, each idea/theme influencing the
next. All in the impulse reaction to the visuals created by Sarah Edmondson. This film was
created with the support of The Darkroom, Dublin.
Credits
Director and Editor – Sarah Edmondson, Sound Designer/Composer – Kieran Sheridan
Performer – Chloe Brenan, Technical Support – Mella Travers, Founder/CEO/Art Director,
The Darkroom.
About the artist
Sarah Edmondson is a research-based, multi-disciplinary artist working in Dublin. Her work
is informed by her dual role as an artist and art educator in society. She is, thus, interested
in the evolution of knowledge and the impact photography and cinema have on our
understanding of the universe. Her practice is founded in the new media and disciplines of
the Fluxus artists and inspired by contemporary artists such as Hito Steyerl and Natascha
Sadr Haghighian. Recent exhibitions include Gormworm, Tapir Gallery, Berlin and [Hu]
Manned Mission, Lumen Crypt, London.
Kieran Sheridan is a sound designer/composer/audio-visual artist/photographer based in
Dublin. He is also one half of the music video series Chromatic. A multi-instrumentalist
and quite visually driven too, he pulls inspiration from the musicality in all sounds in the
world around him. Under the moniker Pink Letter, Sheridan released the immersive audiovisual
piece Movements. His photographic work was recently published in the photo book
series Monømania #5 in Japan and selected by The Darkroom for the upcoming Change
exhibition/book curated by Mella Travers.
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