Grayscale [2017 - 2018]

Grayscale: a not-for-profit community celebrating Audio Visual arts in unique spaces

Founded by:
Dylan Higgins - Production Manager + Music Booker
Kev Freeney - Creative Director + Curator
Ian Maleney - Communications Manager + Curator
Laura Larkin - Business Relationship Manager + Advisor

Supported by:
Michael Reddy - Hospitality
Richard Seabrooke - Designer
Nevin Jio - Comms

1: The Pillar Rooms

Performances on the night from

CLU (Gobstopper),

Mr. Mitch (Planet Mu)
& Rachel Noble.

Hosted in The Pillar Room, an ornate 18th century function room beneath the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.

Complementary drinks on the evening provided by Boyne Brewhouse.

Poster by magnus_mudrack

2: Wood Quay

The venue houses an old part of the Hiberno Norse (Viking) City Wall dating from 1100AD,
but the performers will be more up to date on the night with synthy lover

Damien Lynch
and
r.kitt

with visual and lighting by Kev Freeney and motion designer Dillon O’Sullivan.

The event was part of Dublin Design Week via Nialler9

3: Temple Bar Gallery & Studio

The Waters Will Rise Slowly was presented by Grayscale as part of Dublin Gallery Weekend. Taking place over the four floors of Dublin's Temple Bar Galleries and Studios, the night encompassed smoke, light, and plant installations alongside music which linked the intimate, the atmospheric, and the ecstatic.

Sound //
Dreamcycles
Lumigraph

Light //
Steve MacD
Slipdraft

Installation //
Lewis Byrne
Kev Freeney

The Waters Will Rise Slowly was a BYOB event.
Complimentary refreshments were provided on the night by Whiplash Brewing Company. http://www.whiplashbeer.com/

An estuarial lagoon is the place where fresh and salt waters meet and mix
It is a fragile meeting and mixing not having the constancy of the oceans or the rivers
it is a collaborative adventure its existence is always at risk...
Life in the rivers the lakes and the oceans where the properties of water are more constant is less stressful
But life in the lagoons is very special it has evolved high tolerance to the stresses that come about from sudden changes in salt and fresh water and temperature and available food for the life web
Life is in the lagoons is tough and very rich it breeds quickly
Like all of us it must improvise its existence very creatively with the materials at hand but the
materials keep changing
Only t

he improvisation remains constant....
— Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison, The Lagoon Cycle

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Grayscale Presents: The Waters Will Rise Slowly
We think of the boundary where land becomes water becomes land again. The boundary where
sound becomes light becomes air becomes rain, soil, roots, starts again. We think of places
where all maps are temporary, and paths must be improvised. To wander in places like these is
to ask, What is possible? Where are we, and where can we go from here?
Drawing on the work and ideas of environmental artists Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton
Harrison, The Waters Will Rise Slowly is an event without a centre.
We encourage you to wander, to find your own path.

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and
the waters will rise slowly
at the boundary
at the edge
redrawing that boundary
continually
moment by moment
all over
altogether
all at once

it is a graceful redrawing
and redrawing
this response
to the millenia of the making of life

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4: The Button Factory

Lorenzo Senni (Warp)
ELLLL
CLU

Do it Differently.
Fly on Your Own Wings.
Rave Voyeurism is Not a Crime

5: The Chocolate Factory

Visionist (live)
with Pedro Maia (visuals)

Glacial Sound (dj)
with Eoghan O'Keeffe(visuals)