‘Live Landscapes’ is the debut solo exhibition by Limerick-based musician and media artist Mícheál Keating. The show charts five years of engagement with rural Limerick landscape through processes of musical improvisation, field recording, photography, video and writing. Keating’s work casts Limerick in a contemplative and uncanny light—foregrounding hauntology, immanence, and becoming in the landscape, while tracing entanglements between human, non-human, and land.

This exhibition also marks the release of Keating’s new publication + album of the same name. ‘Live Landscapes’ is an 108-page book of 120mm landscape photography produced in collaboration with designer Hugh Heffernan. It is accompanied by an 18-track CD of improvised performances recorded by Keating in outdoor locations across County Limerick, his voice and electroacoustic sounds coalescing with the rural soundscapes. This body of work channels a desire to build collective attention towards the complexity of the land, and to cultivate agency and care in our relationship with place.

'Live Landscapes' is opening in Spacecraft, Limerick, July 18 from 7-9pm, and running 11am-5pm on the 19-20th