Saturday 16 March 2013, Askeaton Community Hall - Preview
Sunday 17 March, 2.30pm 2013
What's A Little Fallout? joins the 35th annual Askeaton parade
In the search for an artist who could take on the task of merging the rarified nature of contemporary
art practice into the busiest day of the year on the streets of Askeaton, Aaron Lawless (b.1986, Dublin) is the most obvious choice. Actively involved in an emerging Limerick art scene and a co-director of Faber Studios, Lawless’ work involves recycling leftover materials found in the vicinity of his studio into startling arrangements, exhibited as installations or sculptural entities. In turn, these forms are used as discursive touchstones for public participation through active conversation, organised public events and, in the artists’ words, “a form of interpersonal play that challenges the notion of a stagnant relationship between individual and artwork”. Often guided by YouTube tutorials and DIY instruction manuals, his constructions rarely hold an allusion to high art, rather he sees them as makeshift solutions, based on pragmatic decisions made on the resources at hand.
Saint Patrick in Limerick:
Stories of the patron saint’s time around Limerick are many. Notably, he encountered a pagan witch who
lived in Carrigogunnell Castle. His journey to there was fuelled by local concerns about candles placed in
the windows of the castle, built on a high rocky outcrop by the Shannon river. Those who saw the candles
lit would instantly die. Patrick’s intervention meant the liberation of all such fears, and the flame was eternally extinguished. He also established holy wells, and a site of pilgrimage at Knockpatrick, west of Askeaton.
A low point of his time in the region occurred when his donkey was allegedly stolen, thus preventing his
passage to the west into Kerry.
Forward : Michele Horrigan
credits: Roderick Buchanan, Natalie Woociker, Sean Lynch
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