Dust Defying Gravity is a short meditation on the dynamic of time and space and their mutability through the medium of film.
It consists of a single tracking shot that traces through the rooms at Dunsink Observatory, documenting the aging telescopes, clocks and measuring instruments arrayed throughout the building. As the camera passes over a mechanical model of the solar system, the dust in the air of the room becomes visible, floating and scintillating like a field of stars.
Running time: 4 minutes
Grace Weir
Dust Defying Gravity
Grace Weir
Dust Defying Gravity
Grace Weir
Grace Weir is an artist whose work ranges from film and video to lecture-performances, installation, painting, photographic and web projects. These are concerned with the nature of ideas and the ways in which thinking is materialised, so that the work often refers to the act of its own making and the mediums in which it is made. She has a particular interest in the ways we construct, rationalise and experience time and space, and her work is informed by conversations and experiments with scientists, philosophers and practitioners from other disciplines or with specifics such as objects, archives and locations. Grace Weir represented Ireland at the 49th International Venice Biennale and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. She was Artist-in-Residence in the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, and had a solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2016.
