Mirror Pavilion, Leaf Work

By John Gerrard.
Located in Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara, Leaf Work is a lone melancholic virtual character on the screen, clad in oak leaves. Derrigimlagh Bog was the site of transmission of the first transatlantic radio signal from the Marconi station in 1907 and the site of Alcock and Brown’s first transatlantic plane crossing in 1919. In Leaf Work the character performs a lament for the effects of these human advances on the non-human world and its relentless suffering. She walks a simple circle, a choreography based on the position of the sun and her lament is the antithesis of the triumph of Corn Work.