Position One
2023
Audio-Visual Projection. Duration: 03:13
All of the building sites I used to know
Are now standing to attention
Shining and new
Cascading upwards
Flowing from the
Terrible disorderly
Forgotten origin.
Trampling meaning
& decline
Now they look fine
As buildings
shiny surfaces
Metal like bone
Glass gleaming and taunting
To let signs bared like teeth
Offices complete
The only scars are
Pre-2010 cars
Floating by past
Discarded tents of the decrepit
Or a waft of piss
Rats scurry looking for
Ground to hole through
Find only shadows
And concrete rises
Like zombies or smoke
Those who ask questions
Told their time does not align
They’ve too much
To kill
Those with none
Hurry blindly by
Not noticing
Their implicated war
In built form
Emma Mc Keagney is an artist, writer & researcher based in Dublin, Ireland. She works across sculpture, photography, video, poetry, and writing. Her research and writing inform her art practice, and both often intertwine to form the basis of her work in exhibitions, publications and online articles. Often responding to academic texts or bodies of research with process-based making – her work oscillates between a research-based practice and an intuitive practice of working with materials.
Emma has exhibited in Helsinki, Dublin and Sligo with organisations and collectives including RuaRed, The Complex, MART and BaHa. Her first solo exhibition entitled Unstable Categories took place as part of Pallas Projects and Studios Artist-Initiated Projects in 2018. She has been recipient of Art Council Agility Award, the Firestation Sculpture Award, Talbot Studios Most Promising Graduate Award and has recently won a Percent Scheme Sculpture Commission in a National School in Dublin.
