Here and Far Away

‘Here and Far Away’ reflects curator Yasmin Nurming-Por’s engagement with the people, ecologies, and structures surrounding the corncrake. The text features Nurming-Por’s accounts of travelling to remote parts of Ireland and Scotland as she comes to understand the significance of the bird across science, agriculture, and local folklore. More broadly, this text is an interrogation of perceptions of place in which the concept of remoteness is challenged as a subjective assertion.

You can read ‘Here and Far Away’ here.

Yasmin Nurming-Por is a curator based in Toronto, Canada. She is co-director of the contemporary art gallery Two Seven Two. She has held curatorial and research positions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Walter Phillips Gallery, Global Affairs Canada Visual Art Collection, Images Festival, and Sheridan College, amongst others. Recent and upcoming projects include the Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art (NY), Sagrada Mercancia (Santiago, CHIL), Atlas Arts (Isle of Skye, UK), Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art (Rizhao, CN), National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (AB). Yasmin is a PhD student in the Art History Department at the University of Toronto. Further information about Nurming-Por is available here.

The Sky is Falling! is a group exhibition featuring contributions from Ceara Conway, Seoidín O’Sullivan, Scott Rogers, and Christopher Steenson. Featuring new and existing works, the exhibition is the culmination of several years of research into the corncrake, a species of bird approaching extinction in Ireland and the UK. Further information can be found here.

The Sky is Falling! is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Limerick Arts Office.

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