LAST ACT (2024)

Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) presents LAST ACT, a new commission, by Marie Hanlon with Music by Rhona Clarke.
LAST ACT is a large scale synchronised video installation. The work presents the climate crises as something both real and abstract, as such it mirrors the human response to a changing earth. The music centres on the Dies Irae, a poem and chant which has inspired composers since the middle ages. Newly composed choral music was recorded with the State Choir Latvija and their conductor Maris Sirmais. This material was then manipulated to form the score for Marie Hanlon’s evocative photographic and video images.