Homehouse is an audiovisual installation which reflects a three-month engagement with my mother’s native townland
in South Armagh. The work’s content includes informal interviews, ambient field recordings, soundwalks and various
video material. The project emerged from a desire to develop a folkloric work, which foregrounds the experiences of the
individual.

Conceptually, this is achieved via the theoretical framework, 'exploring everyday connection to place'. Here, the
experiences of several participants to the artwork are included, while my own experience of collecting the material and
engaging with an area of personal significance, is used as an entryway to these varied perspectives. This does not seek
to capture nor to replicate my experience but merely reflects upon its outcomes. Further, my own authorial control
is questioned by the use of Markov Chains to control playback across the three video displays and stereo monitors.

As a result of the ambivalent approach taken to the perspectives and experiences recorded, the stories and themes
contest each other and overlap. Contradicting accounts of childhood events, the impacts of parental bereavement, the
loss of co-operative rural communities and the lasting cultural ramifications of colonialism are all apparent in the work.

The occasion of the work shown in the excerpt video above was the DAWN exhibition at Shannon Rowing Club in August 2023.