Thin Sections

At the invitation of artist Marie Farrington and curator Rachel Botha, the Department of Ultimology will present a talk titled Thin Sections as part of the public programme for Glossaries for Forwardness, a multi-platform project by Marie Farrington, examining convergences between landscape and memory through the architecture of the Museum Building in Trinity College Dublin.

Taking place on Saturday 16 September at 3:30pm at Regent House, House 5, Department of Music, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Thin Sections maps a range of visual and written resources where stones signify endings. Referencing texts, folklore and artworks, this talk will introduce and frame a participatory workshop by Belgium-based artist Anaïs Chabeur.

This workshop, titled Tactile Encounter, offers a space of connection through touch where we will explore a listening kind of contact with a stone, facilitated by Chabeur. Through her artistic practice she asks ‘what if stones could serve as mediators to grief*?’ Thanks to their great capacity to make us present to the transient quality of our human experience, minerals prove to be valuable companions in loss. Participants of this workshop will be invited to be attuned to how their body reacts to this encounter, and to what this shape asks of them.

This event takes place at Regent House in Trinity College Dublin. The space is wheelchair accessible. If you have any access needs for this event please don't hesitate to get in touch with Rachel Botha at bothar@tcd.ie.

Limited tickets for this event may be reserved via Eventbrite here.

*The term « grief » is used here in a comprehensive manner, the artist wishes to include acknowledged and unacknowledged losses equally.

[Image credit: Anaïs Chabeur, still from Rehearsal (2021).]