Penguin Pen (a meditation on climate change)
screened at Nuns Island Studio Galway, 16th - 18th November

Irish artists Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy’s collaborative practice develops ways of temporarily occupying particular architectural fragments and texts from popular culture. Often they create ambiguous territories between public and private, ‘real’ and artificial; these ‘readymade’ sets become models that refer to larger social environments on the ‘outside’. They are currently exhibiting at Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin.

The artists in the video occupy a simulated Antarctic environment (a deserted penguin enclosure in a Southeast Asian zoo). This space was treated as a microcosm to broach wider issues of social and ecological importance, i.e. climate change. This approach is non-narrative and non-literal, and maybe slightly absurd.

Thailand, 2005, 2 channel DVD installation, duration:13 mins