Dualtagh Grundy
Luistert naar veengebieden en planten als medevertellers, en onderzoekt hoe niet-menselijke perspectieven nieuwe ecologische verhalen kunnen openen.
This project emerges from an ongoing process of fieldwork in bogs across Ireland and the Netherlands. Bogs are wetland environments composed of layers of decayed plant material. In Ireland, these landscapes have a long history of human intervention from British colonial drainage plans for agriculture, state industrialised peat extraction for fuel to ‘green’ energy and data infrastructures. Extractivism has defined how the bog is known and viewed by humans only insofar as it can be converted from a ‘wasteland’ into value.
I entered this process through co-creation, seeking to understand if my practice could facilitate more collaborative encounters between humans and the bog. Yet, repeatedly, I found myself complicit in its extraction. My research then unfolded as a process of self-experimentation in which my technologically mediated fieldwork became both the subject and method of the research. As I conduct each visit - using sensors, subterranean microphones and cameras - I negotiate how my practices may reproduce the structures I try to critique, I then alter my actions for the following visit. It is an iterative and reflexive process.
