Richard Carr.
Richard is an Artist-Curator currently living and working in Ireland.
His practice is rooted in a sonic sensibility and usually involves spending time within specific geographical, architectural and psychological landscapes. Sometimes, this can also involve a collaborative approach, bringing the life and work of diverse, international practitioners together.
He has been supported by numerous funding bodies including Culture Ireland, Creative Ireland, ArtLinks, ALA:AO, and The Arts Council of Ireland. His work has featured as part of leading international programmes such as Culture Ireland's GB18 programme in association with MOCA London, and their Zeitgeist Irland 24 showcase in association with Errant Sound Berlin and The Embassy of Ireland in Germany. Alongside this, he has been invited to participate in many EU funded initiatives such as 'Archives of the Future' in Poland, ‘EDGES’ UK, and 'PARTGO' between various higher level institutions in Ireland, Hungary, Finland, and Estonia.
Website:www.richardcarr.ie
P45 | The Lighthouse
Collaborators
Basciville and Sasha Terfous.
Work originally commissioned by Dani Gill for The Lighthouse Project Ireland
Location: Moran Park, Lower Section
This work is located at Moran Park (Lower Section) adjacent to the Lexicon and the old Harbour Masters House, now renamed Moran Park House. This area is an open green space. Please be mindful of your footing and other members of the public.
P45 is a public sound art and listening project which focuses on collaboration, communication, and community. In the United Kingdom, and formerly the Republic of Ireland, a P45 is the reference code of a document which is usually issued when an employee is leaving work. It is commonly used by the public as a metonym for 'termination of employment' or for when one finds themselves 'in-between jobs'. With this in mind, P45 usually manifests to enable Richard and communities of place/interest to work together on the development of a new project.
For Dún Laoghaire, Richard has re-composed and earlier work which was originally commissioned by Dani Gill for The Lighthouse Project Ireland. This collaborative and site-adaptive work was developed by Basciville, Richard Carr, and Sasha Terfous. It was made during a short working period at Hook Lighthouse, Ireland (The oldest, intact, operational lighthouse in the world) where the artists responded to the coastline of Hook head in Co. Wexford. A site first developed by Brittonic Priest and Pilgrim, St. Dubhán, later developed by William Marshall (1st Earl of Pembroke), and an important navigational point illuminating many international stories of historic sailors and fishermen between Ireland, UK, and mainland Europe.
The resulting work aims to give a personal, poetic voice to the landscape, while exploring these trans-national trading/settlement/communication sites such as Hook Head, Ireland, Fisherinsel, Berlin, Titanic Slipways, Sailortown, Belfast and now adjacent to the old Harbour Masters House, Dún Laoghaire. A building of national significance and is recorded as being the location of the first wireless transmission by Guglielmo Marconi on 20th July 1898.