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Meeting Point: The Lab, Foley Street, Friday 2nd February
‘Brigid…it was she who first made the whistle for calling one to another through the night.'
— Isabella Augusta Gregory, 1904
Artist Ruby Wallis will lead a night-walk through the Monto—allegedly, the biggest red light district in Europe from the 1860s–1950s. The group will embody the figure of the flâneuse, reflecting on a sense of curiosity as to how women move through and experience public spaces at night.
As we stroll, participants will be invited to discover and contribute to the growing archive of whistling, a collection that has evolved as a sound work originating from the myth of Brigit whistling when she walked at night to signal her safety to others. Together we will challenge the idea of women whistling as unlucky, unfeminine, or even ungodly. Along the way, we will gather photographs of our nighttime findings and finish with a discussion reflecting on the experience of walking the city as imaginative explorers, whistlers and subverters of the gaze.
Ruby Wallis is a visual artist who works with lens-based media. She lectures at The Burren College of Art. In 2022 Wallis published the Photobook A Woman Walks Alone at Night with a Camera in collaboration with writer Phillina Sun.
- Date:
- Friday 2nd February
- Time:
- 6.00pm
- Price:
- €10
- Address:
- The LAB, Foley Street, Mountjoy, Dublin 1, Ireland
