Saturday 2 August
2pm - 4pm

Free, ticketed. Local food truck…

ᴄᴋᴅ* ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇʟʏ ᴋɴᴏᴄᴋᴇᴅ ᴅᴏᴡɴ

CKD*

*Completely Knocked Down refers to an industrial loop hole during a period of high import taxes in Ireland where breaking cars apart and transporting them to Ireland in flat packs to be reassembled provided a solution in making cars more readily available. In a contemporary art context, it’s a model to consider the fragmentation and restructuring of physical and mechanic processes and practices.

Inside The Dock, a collaborative performance takes place through installation, storytelling and music with visual artist Liliane Puthod and writer Ingrid Lyons. Objects gathered act as touchstones for narratives and histories encountered along the way. Meanwhile the Renault 4 goes through a car wash and the seemingly mundane or quotidian act of emptying the car, unpacking and cleaning it, allows for a moment of catharsis at the midpoint of the six week tour de force. As Liliane and Ingrid’s performance draws to a close a transformation occurs.

Dancer Edwina Guckian hails from outside the village of Drumsna in Co. Leitrim. Coming from a family steeped in the tradition of music and dance, her style is greatly influenced by the style of local music she grew up with across Leitrim and Roscommon.  

To see Edwina dance is to understand that great lightness and wit can be carried forward from a rich and dense repertoire of steps, rhythms and refrains. Outside The Dock, the freshly spruced Renault 4 sets the scene for a meditation on obsolescence and endurance; an embodied response and expression of the dovetailing between old and new worlds of tradition and industry.

Edwina Guckian photographed by Maurice Gunning

Co. Leitrim tour de force pit stop in partnership with The Dock.