OUR DEMANDS MOST MODERATE ARE | Exhibition Visits

Description

OUR DEMANDS MOST MODERATE ARE | FIADH TREVASKIS HOSKIN

Exhibition Viewings
1st – 18th July
Limited Capacity Booking Essential

Our Demands Most Moderate Are is multimedia reflection on Fiadh’s four years of squatting in Dublin. The installation focuses on the contrast between the utopian prefigurative sentiment which underpins much squatting and the actually existing need and deprivation which she both experienced and witnessed under such living conditions. The work explores the “really existing demands” which are lived on a day-to-day basis in our city through the lenses of housing, healthcare, heavy handed policing and poverty, the work is an attempt to outline a personal and specific phenomenology of housing precarity in Dublin as a way of highlighting more general trends in the neo-liberal approach to housing currently being implemented at various levels of society.

Fiadh Trevaskis Hoskin is a poet and artist, she has a degree in Philosophy and English Lit from UCD and has been writing for most of her life. Her work has appeared in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland, Flare, Impossible Archive and a number of other publications and zines. She generally works in short form revelatory poetry which attempts to encapsulate the generalisable message within specific moments. She has worked with the medium of photography for a number of years.

Fiadh is the recipient of We Only Want the Earth 2021, Residency Award 2 in partnership with Fire Station Arists’ Studio, Community Action Tenants Union (CATU), and consulting artist Kerry Guinan.

Further Information:
https://a4sounds.org/our-demands-most-moderate-are 

Health & Safety
This exhibition features a high volume of sanded dust on the gallery floor. During your visit you will walk or move through the dust. If you have a dust allergy please take precautions. If you would like to get in touch and ask us any questions ahead of your visit please email events@a4sounds.org

Social distancing measures and your safety:
To ensure the health and safety of visitors to the gallery, our viewing will limit visitors to 1 booking at a time. You may bring 3 friends with you for your booking (max 4 persons total per booking). Gallery visits are 45 mins in duration, please ensure to arrive on time so you can fully enjoy the show.

What you should know before your visit:
All visitors and staff will follow safety procedures.

1. We will ask you to wear a mask indoors. Please bring along your own if possible. If you do not have a mask, you may purchase one with your booking or at the front desk on arrival for €3. You will not be allowed entry to the gallery without a mask.
2. A sanitization station will be available at the front desk. We will ask you to sanitize your hands when you arrive.
3. We will also take your temperature with a non-touch thermometer. If you have a high temperature you will not be admitted to the gallery. You will be asked to return home and to take necessary precautions to keep yourself and others safe.
4. We will ask for names and contact information of everyone in your group for contact tracing purposes. This information will remain confidential and will be deleted after 30 days.

Accessibility
You can access our full accessibility information via this link: shorturl.at/kmGW6.

General Accessibility Information:
This event will take place in our gallery which is wheelchair accessible.
The gallery is approx a 5m walk from the front door.
There is a garden with benches and stool adjacent to the gallery for breaks if needed.

Installation Specific Information:
This installation has a large volume of dust on the ground as part of the piece. You will be walking on or moving through the dust during your visit. If you have a dust allergy please take precautions.
There is loud sound in the gallery; an audio piece of spoken poetry played on a PA.
There is a small two-seater couch you are invited to sit on in the gallery, and you can also move around freely.
The gallery is low lit, there are no flashing lights.

Bathrooms:
Our bathrooms are gender-neutral.
Our bathrooms are not wheelchair accessible. They are located on the first floor via a flight of stairs (approx 22 steps) so may also be inaccessible for people with movement impairments.

If you have specific needs that are not included in this information please get in touch via and we will work with you to ensure you are comfortable on your visit. You can email us via events@a4sounds.org.