#tbt 10 years ago this month
@ruth_a_clinton ,
@profesh_moriarty and I published an artists’ book ‘Wound with a Tear’, also pronounced ‘Wound with a Tear’. 📄🪨🦠📚
The publication was a follow up to Niamh and Ruth’s 2014 off-site project at
@dhg_dublin , for which they created a trail of scattered Interdepartmental Memoranda throughout the
@trinitycollegedublin campus that investigated the ongoing deterioration and renewal of the institution’s archives, its buildings and their inhabitants. The messages between the Old Library and Department of Geological Science were unauthoured and it was ambiguous if the memos were coming directly from the buildings themselves rather than the staff within. The conversation drifts between concerns about archiving, dust accumulation and slow geological time, acting out a Wildean romance that questions resistance to change, holding knowledge and maintaining the imperial order of the institution. The artists’ photographs of the campus highlight the overgrowth, decay, patterning, chaos, dust, and mould embedded and accumulated within this historical setting over centuries.
Ruth, Niamh and I screen printed the covers and hand-stitched the binding between
@A4soundsstudios and their Project Studio at
@templebargalleryandstudios .
@she.lives hand drew the title-page/ex-libris. We made 100 copies that were soon dispersed into the world, appropriately finding themselves on bookshelves, in archive boxes, and in damp homes around Ireland knowing that they may never see the light of day again.
@tcdlibrary @tcdgeomuseum @100yrsagotoday #ruthclinton #niamhmoriarty #woundwithatear #trinitycollege
