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A Matter of Time III by Ishmael Claxton, María Baez & Jye O’Sullivan
Exhibition Trail through The Liberties
Monday 4 - Sunday 10 May
Free Event, No Booking Required
Interactive map will be LIVE during the festival
A Matter of Time III proposes that the way we experience time is directly related to spaces and the bodies that inhabit them. Taking the Liberties as a locality, the project looks at the archipelago (series of islands) of businesses that make up the locality, and considers the types of labour that take place within these businesses as a means of understanding the different sociocultural ecologies that constitute the place. In each shop, each café, each street, there are different soundscapes aesthetics and bodies, moving at different speeds and producing different micro-environments. The combination of these might be understood as the archipelago of connected spaces that build the locale, even if those connections sometimes seem invisible.
The three artists work to make tangible these connections and to understand them as the combined elements that make up the Liberties, a locality in constant change for better and worse. Their work hopes to demonstrate how the work we do, in spaces we make, mediated through technologies and techniques we cultivate, make places and communities, fragmented and untied.
A Matter of Time III builds on the social ecology grown over the past years and, in response to the impact of the intensification of the cost of living on small business ushered in by successive neoliberal governments and multinational companies, tries to locate festival goers in the businesses themselves. From 2016, Pokémon Go enticed users around the world to build a perfect database, mapping the intricacies of the planet and how a being might navigate them. In 2026, according to MIT Technology Review, this database is being used by Google spinout Niantic to train robot replacements for delivery workers.
A Matter of Time seeks to invert this logic. Rather than crowdsource data, we have built longstanding relations with workers in the area and, opposed to training their replacements, we seek to bring folks to them. The different artworks produced will be housed in their respective businesses that festival goers can locate using an online map. The artworks are accompanied by streamable or downloadable field recordings and an audio piece that could be played throughout, although visitors are highly encouraged to listen and talk themselves.
Guided by the principle that once invited into a space one is more likely to return, A Matter of Time kindly guides participants through our Liberties social ecology in the hope that folks will feel welcome to return, talk and sideline the industries that are actively seeking to replace them.
17 local business including which will have some display this work include:
Bite of Life, Timepiece Antique Clocks, Adonis Flower Designers, Caxton Prints, Betty Bojangles, Cleo Prickett Studio, Designer Cuts, Fusco Cafe, Glina Opticians, James Fagan Tailor Communion Suits, Jaynie’s hair and Beauty, Marrowbone Books, Mediterranean Food Market, Norton’s Green Grocer Market, Norton’s Green Grocer Market, Oriental Rugs Co. SHARE and Thomas Dry Cleaners.
Ishmael Claxton, originally from New York, Ishmael is a photographer who has been living and working in Dublin for eight years. He has engaged with a variety of different thematics during this time, however, is consistently drawn to the people who make up specific locales.
In addition to his work leading the IOVA exhibitions and his solo show in Gallery X, Ishmael has several significant upcoming exhibitions including a solo show at Hens Teeth, focussed on the different intersecting classes in Dublin’s horse community.
Ishmael has successfully turned his lens to capture locality with great sensitivity to race, class, and gender in a variety of settings.
Maria Baez Troin, completed her degree in Fine Art in Madrid, then moved to Dublin five years ago. Since then, she has completed an MA in 2D Animation and Digital Illustration and several courses in illustration and different forms of printing.
Maria has, in the past couple years, turned her focus onto capturing the idiosyncrasies and characters that define place. Working with animation,illustration and printing, Maria has been shining a light
on the details and individuals who define Dublin 8.
She recently exhibited four works at the Half Tone exhibition, participated in La Catedral open studios sponsored by Irelands Design Week and sells her prints at a variety of locations across Dublin.
Jye O’Sullivan completed their PhD in art and cybernetics in 2022 and has lectured in History of Art since 2019 at TUDublin. They are a core member of the European Culture & Technology Laboratory and a Senior Researcher for the European University of Technology.
Jye is specifically focussed on art from Latin America, bio-art, the post-natural, queer theory and postcolonialism/posthumanism as well as ecological ethics. They have written several guiding documents for EU ethics in technological education and continue to participate in EU thinktanks on the subject.
Jye is also a poet and a sound artist, focussed on creating immersive sonic ecologies that bring the listener into a space of awareness of the way knowledge is formed by our bodies within specific spaces. Jye suggests, that knowledge is fundamentally material.
More Info
Duration: All Day - an online map will be available during the festival, explore at your own leisure
Age Suitability: All Ages
Accessibility: Self Guided Tour
Location: Across The Liberties
Monday 4 - Sunday 10 May
Free Event, No Booking Required
Interactive map will be LIVE during the festival
