The inevitable leveling of the housing scheme where Pallas Heights exists represents more then the destruction of an architectural space, but more so the manifestation of a failed modernist utopian dream. Metaphysical Longings takes place over the course of three evenings, functioning to facilitate participants to engage with and practice meditation. Similar to the esoteric endeavours of the latter centuries charmed theosophical society, these occurrences attempt to enable the experience of an elevated state to the members of the group participating. However the emphasis of Metaphysical Longings is not so much on experiencing the infinite, but more so, on the efforts to record, understand and in a way, control the sensations that occur while attempting to reach a higher transcendental state. Our continuous struggle to map the invisible and the unattainable ensures that we are in a similar position to this existing architectural space deemed for demolition…unable to go on, unable not to go on.

The evidence of these twilight occurrences at Pallas Heights is left on display alongside participants’ visual records and my own sculptural objects/images pertaining to the theme.

Biography:

Clodagh Emoe (b. Dublin) is currently participating in the Artists Residency Programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and is currently exhibiting her solo-show “I Am Here Somewhere” at Temple Bar Galleries and Studios. In conjunction with this is a collaborative project with “I Am Somewhere Here” features a visual dialogue with international artists dealing with similar themes at the Process Room at IMMA. Forthcoming projects for 2006 include “Territory”, University of the Arts, London, “Tales of Hoffman”, a site-specific project in Hackney Tower, London and a two-person exhibition at the Rubicon Gallery. Clodagh has been awarded the residency at the Banff Centre, Canada by the Arts Council and will travel there in August 2006.