Eimhin Daly: Archives — Place & Performance

This is the second episode in our series on Archives. Artist-researcher Eimhin Daly discuss the entangled sites of their research to consider what constitutes an archival relation. Seeing place itself as an archive, they are concerned with practices of relation, specifically with unlearning relations to place and pasts that are produced by imperialism and nationalism in Ireland. ----Bio: Eimhin Daly is an artist-researcher working with performance and writing. They are currently undertaking a PhD in the School of Arts at the University of Roehampton.Their research project emerged from an engagement with site-specific feminist artworks. In following artists Alanna O’Kelly and Anne Tallentire to Connemara on the west coast of Ireland—the artists’ sites of inspiration three decades ago—Eimhin pays attention to intergenerational affinity and difference in considering (hi)stories of displacement in the region. Listening beyond dominant, amplified narratives, they complicate the notion of Irish loss and longing, and make explicit national perpetration and participation in ongoing settler-colonialism.---Technecast:This episode is presented by Julien Clin.The Technecast is funded by the Techne AHRC-DTP, and produced and edited by Polly Hember, Julien Clin, Felix Clutson, Edwin Gilson, Morag Thomas and Olivia Aarons.Contact: [email protected] / @technecastMusic composed, performed and generously provided by Jennifer Doveton