“Europe’s largest digital art screen” now occupies the front lawn of the Irish Museum of Modern Art
A short film and art installation called The Art of a Tree depicts a tree-less, post-apocalyptic future, in which oxygen has to be harvested
The eerie soundtrack suits the theme and will be enjoyed by art lovers. In the meantime, however, it is also being passively inhaled by those who just happen to live next door to the museum. Then that too turned out to be an inhalation – sorry, installation. It was a show by a Bethlehem-born artist who sought to juxtapose the colonial pasts of Palestine and Ireland in what, long before it became Imma, and at the height of empire, was a British military hospital.
Not that I’m against the parade, as such. I fully support the right of green, white, and orangemen to walk the Lord Mayor’s highway on March 17th. I know that marching in bands on this date is a fundamental part of American culture, in particular. At the best of times, two sumo wrestlers would struggle to pass each other there without one of them being bounced into the street. And okay, that doesn’t happen very often.
But Tone has other monuments. And as I have been amazed to finally learn, they include the 1977 BBC comedy series Citizen Smith, starring Robert Lindsay as a would-be urban guerrilla with the “Tooting Popular Front”.
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