Violent impression - Slow violence in the Slieve Aughty mountains

Fahy, Niamh

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to examine the cyclical methodologies of fieldwork, deep mapping and printmaking employed to investigate the changing land use of the Slieve Aughty Mountains, located in the west of Ireland. Landscapes subjected to extractivism bear the physical impact of accelerated carving on the Earth’s surface, leaving visible traces of activity. Without the overt implication of a trace, such as witnessed in extracted landscapes, how can slow violence be recognised by the print artist? What strategies can be applied by the print artist to interpret landscapes affected by environmental change but absent of spectacle? This enquiry seeks to investigate the porosity of slow violence as it reverberates across landscapes, boundaries and bodies. Through a combined method of fieldwork and studio practice, the work attempts to map and connect traces of slow violence to narratives of displacement and disruption within the Slieve Aughty landscape.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Conference Name: Violence: The fourth Biennial PARSE Research Conference
• Acceptance Date: Apr 5, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Sep 16, 2022
• Publication Date: Sep 16, 2022
• Deposit Date: Mar 20, 2023
• Journal: PARSE
• Electronic ISSN: 2002-0953
• Publisher: Göteborgs Universitet, Akademin Valand
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Issue: 15 Autumn 2022
• Article Number: 6
• Series Title: Violence: Materiality
• Series ISSN: 2002-0953
• Keywords: Violence, Materiality, Printmaking, Fine Art
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10571577
• Publisher URL: https://parsejournal.com/article/violent-impression/