Tell Me Something/ Limerick City of Culture, Ireland 2014/15

TellMeSomething 2014/15
Limerick City of Culture, sited at the old Cleeve’s Factory on the North Circler Road, Limerick, Ireland.

Charged with a strong sense of otherness and looking out to the city from its prominent location by Shannon Bridge, hovering 30 meters up the chimney stack, known locally as Cleeve’s Factory, TellMeSomething metaphorically and literally encouraged the dialogue between the individual and the city of Limerick as a whole. This ever-changing constituent in the otherwise recognisable skyline of the city became the interface that offers the local and visiting community the opportunity to reflect on the changing physical and historical landscape of the city of Limerick and of the river Shannon, by rendering its ordinariness extraordinary and by opening up new ways of experiencing them. When the natural light levels diminished and the 18-meter-long 360° wraparound custom-made LED curtain housed in the interior of the structure displaying text composed by those participating became the main feature, revealing its continuous narrative to the city below. Over its four-month duration, the installation provided the public with the opportunity to have their airtime by uploading messages using social media to the server and proactively participating in shaping the global experience of the work by co-creating the narrative within it.

Computer programmer and software designer Erik Kearney