Stories from the Bottom of the Lake is a three-day  translocal symposium around our water and time,  hosted by Creevagh arts and archaeology collective, part-funded by LAWPRO (Local Authorities Water Program) and Creative Ireland, and curated by The Floating Village, dance artists Maria Kerin and Rachel Sweeney 

Maria and Rachel invite a panel of academics and practitioners to respond to concepts around water and temporality, in particular linking different multidisciplinary research methods such as experimental heritage, eco-somatics, durational arts. We invite our speakers to expand an inquiry across their diverse methods as a means to test out, redefine and rearticulate our living relationships with water through

the urgency of the times we live in.

Commissioned by The Floating Village, funded by LAWPRO 2021

Danny Burke, music composition: Lament for the Lickeen char

Deirdre Carr, poem: Chant Arctic Char

Maria Kerin and Rachel Sweeney, live performance: Ode to Lickeen Lake 

Patricia McKenna, art (work in progress): Ice

Tara Mooney, sound piece: Ode to Lickeen Lake 

Michael Walsh, Maria Kerin and Rachel Sweeney, images: Therma/cline