Diagonal Acts

Diagonal Acts is a multi-platform project by Marie Farrington spanning 2025 and 2026. Beginning at the entrance of Kunstverein Aughrim in Spring 2025, the project continued with public workshops at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, and culminates in exhibitions at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon and Commonage Projects, London.

Diagonal Acts arises from research into geological and archaeological imaginations of gaps, openings and thresholds, exploring the boundaries of the body in the landscape from various counter-topographical perspectives. The project expands on and elaborates a hybrid practice of ‘Theatre/Archaeology’ (Shanks/Pearson, 2001) exploring symmetries between staged presentations and field work via their continual renegotiation of categorical boundaries and their shared interest in memory, partiality, fragment, trace and assemblage.

The material outcomes in Diagonal Acts are supported by a range of collaborations, and connected by a public programme of generative elements devised to critically engage audiences in person and online, enhancing and expanding participation and access. From an ovaline access ramp to a digital archiving repository, possibilities for encounter are crafted and considered across platforms.