Moving Through Things, an exhibition and performance tracing sequences of movement across three interwoven sites: Slievenamon Mountain, theSTAC Gallery, and the STAC Chapel. Drawing on the mountain’s historic cursus—a pathway once used for procession and ritual—the work explores how motion accumulates meaning, absorbs time, and dissolves boundaries between self, place, and ritual. It considers movement not as transit, but as a sustained form of attention.
The mountain forms the origin point of the project, a site of exploration and encounter where walking becomes a way of listening, absorbing, and exchanging with the land. The body’s repetitive gestures gather a rhythm that holds both time and transformation.
In the gallery, this rhythm is translated into a sculptural and sensory environment. Circular forms and transparent materials create a spatial choreography that shifts gently with light and presence.
The chapel extends this experience into activation. Here, the artist leads the audience through a silent performance guided by a series of non-verbal instructions. Movements of lifting, holding, and releasing—become a shared rhythm of care and offering. Through gesture, breath, and stillness, the audience and artist together activate the space, creating a collective moment of attention and reciprocity.
Moving Through Things weaves walking, repetition, and transformation into a continuous motion that connects landscape, gallery, and body. It is an invitation to slow down, to move with awareness, and to offer presence as an act of exchange between self and place.