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Podcast: The Arts House
Episode: Work of the Week Nigel Rolfe Into the Mire
Description: Conor Tallon spoke to Michael Waldron of the Crawford Gallery about this WORK OF THE WEEK , which has just turned ten years old…Into the Mire (2011) by Nigel Rolfe records one of the artist’s performance pieces as a response to the global financial crisis of a decade ago and serves as a metaphor for Ireland’s own economic collapse.Filmed in the Bog of Allen, located west of Dublin between the Shannon and Liffey rivers, it “is a slow-motion capture of the artist falling into deep, dirty bog water.” Incongruously dressed in a clean white shirt...