Dublin School of Creative Arts | An Irrational Constant

This year’s exhibition is different. As graduates, we have had to adapt to new and challenging circumstances. Moving to an online environment, we had to think of alternate ways to make our Graduate Exhibition come to life. In its translation into a digital space, the very real and tactile nature of the work we produce is obscured. In our daily lives, there is a sense of human and material touch which is equally obscured. Working from home, graduates are in a new environment. Their creative output extends into their domestic lives as their studies come to a close. It is the parallel between the materiality of our work and the absence of the sense touch that frames this year’s Graduate Exhibition.

This website presents the work of 102 graduating students from the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts, School of Mechanical and Design Engineering and School of Media. The exhibition represents the culmination of years of full-time study and gives our students the opportunity to showcase the results of their imagination, hard work, and creative skills.

Identity by Joana Ferreira, Hugh Kavanagh, Eva Martin, Ben Nagle.

TU Dublin School of Creative Arts
TU Dublin School of Mechanical and Design Engineering
TU Dublin School of Media

Visual Art (Sherkin Island)

Carole Dolan Weed
An Irrational Constant

This work is an aesthetic inquiry into the subjective and objective problem of epistemology. The exploration begins with a solo performance regarding personal identity, developed and recorded in my private domestic space during the Lockdown. The single identity weaves into a collective, participating in a community social structure and dance. Intentions and goals of gaining knowledge and evidence from individuals and cultures who differ contextually, is questioned throughout the performances. Respect and tolerance for opacity juxtaposed and shaded with expectations of transparent explanations are considered. Tension, discomfort, equality preconceived biases, binaries, hierarchical stratifications as well as tolerance and acceptance are all potential outcomes when engaging with those who differ socially, politically, mentally and physically, with those whom are, "the other". The limits of language, imagery, and sound along with the tools and techniques used in interpreting scientific observations are presented as an inquiry to consider these mechanisms’ ability to translate the human subjective experience into universal, objective understanding.

https://caroledolanweed.com/