A Human Glimpse of Cosmic Time (video still)
We are thrilled to announce that Allison Maria Rodriguez will be returning to Belfast in August to give a talk about A Human Glimpse of Cosmic Time, a project that incorporates footage of Northern Irish neolithic sacred sites, filmed by the artist during her residency at Digital Arts Studios in 2023.
A Human Glimpse of Cosmic Time explores and challenges our collective conceptualization of time through an unexpected evocation of the divine within the context of the everyday. The work was exhibited as a public art video installation at Moynihan Train Hall in Penn Station, NYC (October 2024 - January 2025) across 42 screens throughout the train station.
Whilst on the island of Ireland, Allison will be filming more neolithic sites for further work and will be discussing how this footage will be incorporated into other projects.
The talk will be held in the Production Lab at DAS on Wednesday 13th August, 1-2pm.
Please register your attendance as space is limited via Eventbrite:
https://Allison-Maria-Rodriguez-artist-talk.eventbrite.co.uk
**Please note that our Production Lab is on the first floor with no lift access, an online stream of the talk will also be available, please register for online attendance using the same Eventbrite link. Thank you.
Artist Bio
Allison Maria Rodriguez is a first-generation Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist working predominately in video installation. Through a blending of video, digital animation, photography, drawing, performance, sculpture, collage and installation, Rodriguez creates immersive experiential spaces that focus extensively on climate change, species extinction and the interconnectivity of existence. Her award-winning work has been exhibited internationally and operates at the intersection of environmental and social justice.
One of her projects created during her residency as the international guest Artist-in-Residence at DAS, "A Human Glimpse of Cosmic Time", was on view as a 42-channel public art video installation in Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station in New York City earlier this year (and is set for an encore next year). She was recently awarded an SMFA at Tufts University Traveling Fellowship to continue her interdisciplinary research and video installation work on megalithic sacred sites in the landscape by traveling to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in Summer 2025, and various sites in the United Kingdom next year. Her project explores how these neolithic sites speak about climate change in relation to time, astronomy, divinity, geology, human history, and our role as ancestors of future generations.
Rodriguez is based in the United States in Boston, MA and she is also currently the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Broad Trauma Initiative at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University.
A Human Glimpse of Cosmic Time (video still)
A Human Glimpse of Cosmic Time
Detail from 42-channel public art video installation at Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, NYC.
(photo by David Plakke)