Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival
Vintage Luminaries
In 697, at the Synod of Birr, Cáin Adomnáin also called the “Geneva Accords” of the ancient
Irish or Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents) was one of the first-ever laws addressing
human rights issues, particularly the protection of women and children.
The projections by Brendon Deacy and David Bickley, commissioned for St Brendan’s Old
Church, address this Heritage within a broader, contemporary landscape.
David Bickley - Noumenon
David Bickley has been inspired by the Aisling Dream Vision to weave a contemporary immersive diorama. Manipulated with his trademark atmospheric digital work and augmented by an immersive ambient soundtracks and sound design this takes the form of vaporous spirits intertwining and flowing around the building in a sequence that creates a narrative of earthbound people interacting with ethereal beings for the evolution of mankind
Brendon Deacy - Cáin Adomnáin
Brendon’s work uses projections of monochrome videos of women of all ages reciting selected lines from the transcript of Cáin Adomnáin who appear within the windows of the building. The details from the Law of Innocents are conveyed in an easy to understand visual and aural language.
Juxtaposed with these crisp and monochrome ‘real-time’ moving images the contrasting the surface of the stone wall show slow transitions of contemporary imagery created in paint and print and inspired by the human effects of culture, history and politics.
Finn Nichol - Wolf Trap Mountain
Finn has created a richly layered visual and audio narrative that weaves a response to the current pandemic into a reimagined mythology of the Midlands and the tale of the last wolf in Offaly
Finn is a final year student at LSAD and Birr local, having attended Oxmantown National School and St Brendan’s Community School, where he was awarded the Joanne Foley Award for the Arts.
His passion for creativity was nurtured through the Youth Arts provisions of Birr –, Legitimate Bodies Dance Company, Offline Film Festival and the Birr School of Rock, from which he made lasting connections with other creative young people who contributed to the sound-track and filming involved in the piece.
Offline Film Festival presents immersive video mapped illuminations onto heritage buildings in Birr, bringing heritage to life with a modern twist.
