Patterns in The Sand is an essay by Ian Maleney written in response to the themes of the 2020 exhibition, Threads.
Patterns in The Sand by Ian Maleney
Ian Maleney is a writer based in Dublin. He was born and raised in Co. Offaly. His first book, a collection of essays entitled Minor Monuments, was published in 2019 by Tramp Press and shortlisted for the Michel Deon Prize and Butler Literary Award. He received the Arts Council Next Generation Bursary for Literature in 2019. He is the online editor of the Stinging Fly. His work has been published in The Guardian, Esquire, the New Statesman Winter Papers, gorse, and the Dublin Review. He is the founder of Fallow Media, an interdisciplinary publication for music, photography, and long-form writing.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, in association with The Dock, presents new, writing commissions for Austins Ivers' exhibition, Threads. For this exhibition, Austin Ivers considers some technological developments of the post-war period and their subsequent application in state command and control systems during the Cold War. Utilising video, sculpture, and photography, this is a consideration of the relationship between the aesthetic of power and life as experienced under the perpetual threat of nuclear annihilation.