The Solution, IMOCA, Dublin, 09.

In February 2009, Carl Giffney and Ruth Lyons were invited to represent The Good Hatchery in an exhibition entitled This Must Be The Place that took place in The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA). The exhibitions curators, Paul Murnaghan and Sally Timmons, asked ten artist-led groups from around Ireland to respond to the question ‘How do we think?’. This response was to be articulated in the form of a new physical work that was made collaboratively by the members of each group. Other groups that were involved included Art/ Not Art, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Jeco Sword, Mart, Monster Truck Gallery and Studios, 126, Mongrel, Blackletter and Hope Inherent. For more information please see the IMOCA website.

The Solution featured in Frieze art magazine. Image and text were found in Maeve Connollys article Dublin.

The Solution is the new, physical work that was made by Carl Giffney and Ruth Lyons over the course of three weeks.

Audience members could interact with the structure via a series of nine brass taps. Each tap dispensed water that came from nine Irish water towers. An amount of glass vessels allowed participants to transport, store or consume the water.

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Each of the signs posted over the nine brass taps detail a water tower that is situated in the mid-lands of Ireland- the vicinity that is home to The Good Hatchery. Below each image coordinates can be found.

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thanks to kDamo for his photos of the opening night

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