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thrown up by the sea was a site responsive work that included an instillation and performance as part of Guest Appearance. The work, based on a series of interviews on the ontology of borders, imagined an immersive world of ‘bordering‘ rather than borders. Using hydrophones audio looped between the room and the wax vessels that held dissolving limestone. The audio was heard over Wi-Fi headphones as the viewer walked around the atrium. The performance brought the three piece band "head-foot" together to respond to the building and installed piece

Guest Appearance took place in the Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin on April 27th, 2018, and included work from ARC researchers Sophie Behal, Isadora Epstein, Maeve Lynch, Eoghan McIntyre, Rosie O’Reilly and Benjamin Stafford, as well as additional collaborators on individual projects.

The exhibition combined installation of sculpture, audio, works on paper and publications with a schedule of performances, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue and guide. The work in the exhibition was conceptually linked by investigations into the guest/host relationship and was site responsive. This theme and the focus of the exhibition was developed through ongoing research and crit group-led discussions between the artists over the ARC two year program as well as through an ongoing collaborative practice including exhibitions, events and performances.

The Building allowed us to work within the framework of classical hosting; the audience were invited (as guests) to a choreographed display and revelation of elements of the exhibition by the researchers (hosts). The private and public spaces of a publicly-sited but largely unrevealed building were activated by a series of performances and installations that welcomed in a new audience.  Supported by our ongoing critical and artistic collaboration it allowed us unite a series of research concerns and explore how our different practices could together approach the host guest relationship in an exciting way.