Funded by Creative Ireland, the unique project combines immersive installation, storytelling, food and audio to explore how homes, families, and stories evolve over a century – drawing on tradition, habit and lived experiences to imagine our future.
As if stepping into two contrasting film sets, the project is a challenge to imagine yourself as a future ancestor, leaving behind your legacy. There’ll be some wild treats and magic too with a time portal, talking plants and a tiny hit of George Michael for good measure.
Maeve Stone, who was named as a Climate Artist to keep an eye on in The Irish Times 50 to watch in 2024 has been busy dreaming up projects with her partner Alex Gill that help map the future in a hopeful way “We tend to be great at imagining what could go wrong and really bad at predicting the things that might go right – if history has taught us anything it’s that it’ll always be a mix of both!”.
Stone is particularly pleased with a new mural they have commissioned “we managed to get a bit of Rebecca Solnit on a wall in Miltown Malbay! How great is that? “To Forget The Past Is To Forgo the Future” will hopefully inspire people for years to come to take the best of the past with them. It’s all about Joy with a capital J, even in the hardest times there is craic and cake” says Stone.
The Time Machine has emerged from months of research and collaboration with local community participants from 9 to 70 years old. “Miltown Malbay has really brilliant traditions – particularly for music. This makes Miltown an ideal spot for some creative thinking and we’re delighted to have been able to commission Jack Talty to write a tune that could live in the Willie Clancy in 2084.” says Alex Gill “it’s an invitation to imagine the ways that traditions evolve over time.”
They have also welcomed input from environmental experts Quentin Crowley, Director of the Trinity Centre for the Environment; Sarah McCormack, a researcher focusing on sustainable energy; and Jerry D. Murphy, Director of MaREI, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate, and Marine.
Running from Saturday 17 August – Sunday 25 August 2024
The Old Bank, The Square, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, V95 AF53