Photo by: Áine O’Reilly
Richard Carr is a visual artist working across sound, digital technologies, and installation. His work incorporates extended periods of research within specific geographical, architectural, and psychological landscapes to draw into question economic, institutional, and pedagogical power structures, and how we might use listening as a form of understanding/resistance.
Carr has completed numerous listening trips to significant places/spaces; from Pythagoras’ Cave (Greece), the border crossing from Turkey into the EU, to tracing the story of Melkorka (an ancient Irish Princess who was kidnapped as part of the slave trade) across an Icelandic landscape.
His practice has been supported by Platform 31, ArtLinks, Culture Ireland, and the Arts Council of Ireland. He recently exhibited at CIACLA (US), Wexford Arts Centre, and MOCA London, alongside being presented at EU funded symposiums such as 'Archives of the Future' in Poland and 'PARTGO' between Ireland, Hungary, Finland, and Estonia.