Pendulum
“Nobody actually talks about afterwards.”
Úna Monaghan
with Conan McIvor and Nóirín Nic Alastair
A sense of what is bigger than us. Resources inside us, and the resources in our world.
This installation started out as a series of conversations with older people about disaster.
And ended up as a space to listen to and think about big questions of danger, ageing, communication, technology, inner and outer worlds, space, climate, resources, time, pandemics and war.
If we move from one position or condition to the opposite extreme, do we come back again?
An audio installation that tries to take one small step - through tiny sounds, overlapping artworks and fragmented voices - towards working out what we can do individually about the scary questions.
How to practically respond, and how to stay in touch with others as we do it.
Pictures by Conan McIvor
Pendulum was commissioned by Dumbworld for Constellations of Noise as part of Our Place In Space, and took place in The Courthouse, Bangor 25-26 March 2023