Limerick, Ireland
Bea McMahon, Waste management in Dublin city and the arrival of Kofi Annan, 2004, mixed media installation with lambda prints, drawings, marker and fuzzy felt, prints, 12 x 14, 12 x 54 and 50 x 70 cm

Bea McMahon

b. Dublin, 1972

I am trying to describe ‘space-time’ as opposed to space and time. I made an experiment to see how it works, or just even to try and live in ‘space-time’. To keep my data as random as possible, I have consistently not known what I would do at any future point-time.

I made thirteen space-time points, which are a 3D point in space (marked by digging up a sod) coupled with a particular time. Details surrounding the event of making the spacetime points are noted. To investigate the nature of these space-time points, I logged further details about them during a time interval. To provide random sampling of information, I limited any documentation to national news stories relating to any point that appeared on the TV during the months of September and October 2004.

I returned the grass at the beginning of November, which plugged up the time interval. Three sods died while in my care during the making of this work.

(Text: OPEN e v + a catalogue, 2005)

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