THE BUREAU OF SPECULATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY is proud to partner with LIVE COLLISION for the LIVE COLLISION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2024, on the occasion of the festival screening of MAIA NUNES’ film LAKE BURST.
Founded ten years after total climate collapse in the year [REDACTED], THE BUREAU is a TRANS-TEMPORAL CULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, dedicated to investigating pre-collapse humanity in the archaeological record. In conjunction with LIVE COLLISION, the pre-collapse LIVE ART FESTIVAL, and festival artist MAΪA NUNES, THE BUREAU will initiate research on INDUSTRIAL ARTEFACTS and MARINE ECOLOGY. Representative DIANA BAMIMEKE will conduct a talk with invited artists and writers, followed by a participatory RESEARCH EXCURSION to a selected body of water in what was then-known and is now known as Dublin.

Responding to Maïa Nunes’ site-specific performance film Lake Burst, curator and writer Diana Bamimeke invites audiences to consider the implications of extraction and alienation on our planet, and on our psyches. Using strategies of speculative fiction and archaeological practice, THE BUREAU OF SPECULATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY, a fictional cultural heritage department, will facilitate a post-screening talk with invited guests and festival artists, followed by a participatory outdoor workshop at Clontarf seafront.’

Meeting point
Directions from Middle Abbey Street:

Bus
Bus number 130
Pick up: Abbey street lower – stop 292
Drop off: Alfie Byrne road stop 1741
Duration: 15/17 minutes

Walk
Duration: 2 mins
Alfie Byrne Road stop to Sails statue in Clontarf.
Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SFEucQvhwgBiQkha6

Clontarf Dart station is also a 4 minute walk from the meeting point.

The area is also accessible by a cycle lane that runs along the promenade out to Sutton and a cycle lane into the city centre.

Car Parking facilities are close with Pay and Display parking in place.

ACCESS NOTES:
This site is on a waterfront promenade and therefore will be open to the elements, we advise you to bring weather appropriate clothing. The meeting point is along a path but the intent of the activity is to explore the surrounding waterfront area, this is both a grass area and concrete footpath – therefore participants are encouraged to walk around the area. Please note the walkways and surrounding are mostly accessible and even with small sections (closer to the water) that have uneven footpaths.