The Saérlaith Project Jools Gilson

Tuesday 4 August to Saturday 12 September

Saérlaith’s Story is a new installation by Jools Gilson made in collaboration with visual artist Veronica Santorum and Sound Artist / Videographer Benjamin Burns.

Somewhere, there in the deep dark, I am wondering. I wonder with all this movement from before and from now and from what will come.

Rooms of whispering sphagnum moss, haunting dance films and 7th century bogstories. Saérlaith’s Story digs deep into embodied audio with an art installation buried in Cloonshannagh Bog, Co. Roscommon. Bowls of sphagnum moss whisper, choreography collaborates with moths in short dance films, something moves beneath a haunted map; a real 7th Century female bog body has things to say.

Based on research conducted as part of an Arts Council Dance Bursary in 2023. Made with research support from Engineers Brendan O’Flynn and Colum Crowe (Tyndall Institute) and Dance Artist Justine Cooper. Funded by Insight (Research Ireland), The Arts Council, UCC and Fulbright Ireland.