Reading Water - workshop on Friday 13th June, 1-4pm.
This workshop led by Aiden Brady will consist of a presentation of art practices which connect to ecological issues, followed by a discussion of how these art practices could be used by communities to encourage learning, understanding, and change. This workshop hopes to bring together creative practitioners & technologists and practical-minded environmental activists to contemplate how their working interests might overlap. Beyond that, it aims to finish the session with clear ideas and prospects for collaboration on projects which might directly assist affected NI communities who are opposing climate breakdown.
This workshop event is part of What can you see, from over the brow? an installation by Aiden Brady, to be exhibited at DAS in partnership with Belfast Photo Festival 2025.
Aiden Brady’s new audiovisual installation will explore how meaning is assigned to landscape, set to the context of ecological breakdown. This work juxtaposes everyday ambivalence toward Irish landscapes, spiritual interpretations of natural environments and the spectacle of destructive climate events.
What can you see, from over the brow?, wonders what ‘nature’ is. Does it exist, is it an idea or is it our mirror?
Aiden Brady is a new media artist and writer working across sound, video and installation. His work often deals with place, identity and the self.
In 2023, Aiden displayed work at Spacecraft Studios and Shannon Rowing Club in Limerick City and in 2024 participated in PS2 Belfast's 'Ideal Development Opportunity'. He is currently a resident on Dublin Digital Radio, hosting 'One Less Colour'. In January 2024, he graduated UL's Art & Technology MA programme.
This workshop will take place at the Digital Arts Studios on Friday 13th June, 1 - 4pm.
Tickets are free and will be available via eventbrite from 6th May at 10am: https://DAS-Reading-Water-workshop.eventbrite.co.uk
Space is limited to 10 seats, so please contact us or cancel your ticket order if you cannot attend to free up your ticket for others.
Related events:
The exhibition will launch on Thursday 5th June for Late Night Art, 6-8pm. It will then open between 10th - 19th June, on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday each week, 12-4pm.
Aiden Brady Artist Talk is on 6th June 1-2pm, (see previous What’s On event)