No.7

Inside Issue 7

 

Cloon

Pádraic E. Moore

 

Nabokov’s Berlin

Naoise Dolan

The Landing

Julie Morrissy

 

Working Class Roman Pentecostals in Ireland

Sara D. M.

Circular

Claire McCluskey

 

Artwork

Penny Davenport

Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances

Michelle Doyle

Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances by Michelle Doyle
5.30 mins, HD video, 2023

The Meisner Technique is a series of training exercises developed by Sanford Meisner, which develop an actor’s connection with their emotions and impulses. The activities in this context are primarily centered on the technique of repetition, requiring the actors to read and respond to each other's emotional cues. This piece draws a comparison between the emotional limitations of AI and the mechanical nature of repetition, using artificial intelligence avatars that are created using real actors' images and voices, who lease them to video platforms.

“Officially, there are just over 4,000 Irish people in Berlin. One of them is me. Many diasporic souls never make it through the registration process (two words: 'Kafka' + '-esque'), so I wouldn't be surprised if the real big-Irish-head-count were higher. It's not Dublin levels of Irish people, but it's enough to make a Clonakilty, say, or an Athenry or a Cashel. Still, you can largely do your own thing. I sometimes go weeks without encountering a fellow Irish person here, and I enjoy that feeling of space. I'm happiest when anonymous in a crowd: I love walking around the busy Museum Island, going alone to sold-out Philharmonic symphonies”

— Naoise Dolan, Nabokov’s Berlin