INFRA-EIREANN MAKING IRELAND MODERN

摘要

Biennale director rem koolhaas asked individual countries to engage with a single theme - Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014 - a period that almost corresponds with the first 100 years of the Irish nation. With their pavilion, co-commissioners, curators and designers Gary Boyd and John McLaughlin challenge Koolhaas's view that 'national identity has seemingly been sacrificed to modernity'. Taking the destruction of the General Post Office in Dublin in the Easter Rising of 1916 as a tabula rasa moment, Boyd and McLaughlin have chosen to present 10 'infrastructural episodes' from the past century.