Ireland 2021

Title: Entanglement
Commissioner: Culture Ireland
Curators/Exhibitors: Annex (Sven Anderson / Alan Butler / David Capener / Donal Lally / Clare Lyster / Fiona McDermott)

The exhibition explores the impacts of “data infrastructure” on our everyday life, investigating the materiality of data, and the interwoven human, environmental and cultural impacts of communication technologies. The exhibition aims to raise awareness about the materiality of the global internet and Cloud services, which is interwoven with the Irish landscape – made manifest through the vast constellation of data centres, fibre optic cable networks, and energy grids that have come to populate its cities and suburbs over recent decades.