Ciarán Walsh

@ciaranwalsh.bsky.social

Artist | Arts Management * Germany & Ireland ciaranwalsh.studio

"This machine-slop will lead to the death of my craft, all so we can reflexively consume mass-produced garbage and keep the working class poor. I get why Luddites are pissed, and if these tapestries weren’t so funny, I’d be right there with them, bashing those machines to bits."

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

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“The bogs, rivers, mountains, and shorelines are more than preservers of old myths, bones, and memories. They are energy banks and time sponges, and what is held within them seeks release.” ― Manchán Magan, Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

On this day in 1933, National Socialist students and Hitler Youth parties organised a book burning on Berlin’s Bebelplatz. Since 1995, Micha Ullmann’s subterranean “library” installation - whose shelves are bleakly empty - commemorates the incident.

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Had a lovely chance on Friday 15.11. to attend the opening of Laura Skehan’s great solo exhibition ‘Interzone’ ZK/U in Berlin (curated by Eamonn Maxwell and part of the Zeitgeist Irland 24 programme) and get to say a few words about Laura’s art practice & Irish contemporary art in Germany.

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After having a dormant account for a year I’m making a more substantial move from X to Bluesky. I can recommend the Sky Bridge Chrome extension for mass matching up followers/-ing from the old app into the other.

This is the trailer for a recently completed short documentary, ‘Here is Some Place Else’. It’s about the memory culture around a village in Germany demolished in the late 70s to make way for a surface mine. It will be shown in 2024. #documentaryfilm #germany #deutschland #oberlausitz #tagebau

Here is Some Place Else (2023) [trailer EN]

Digital video 4K UHD in 2.35:1, with stereo audio German audio with English subtitles Duration 28:10 mins 'Here is Some Place Else' is a short film about…

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I set up this profile a while ago but not yet really used the app regularly. Would like to make more use of it and less and less of Twitter. I’d welcome some recommendations on who to follow to brighten up my feed. Interested in news, culture, history, philosophy, humour.