Hair Pin Bends
2026
Platform Arts Belfast
Mixed media installation
Since caging myself out of the apps and websites that drag me into a wonderful downspiral of time-wasting, the most visited website on my phone has been https://www.met.ie/. Prior to my metaphorical / digital barriers being put in place, I used my access to the entire world to track national and international storms (weather or otherwise) via social networking websites, amongst other unhelpful things.
internet-enabled storm chaser, sad :/
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The work seen in Hair Pin Bends was prompted by Hito Steyerl’s Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?, a text which explores the seeping of the online into reality and uses words like twisted, spinning and stumbled to describe the behavior of images that leave our screens; flitting about, jumping out, and latching on AH!. Paired with Ni Dhuinn’s personal fascination with storms and weather warning systems, tracking and following storms across the world through live tweets from X (formally twitter) users, she considers how morbid curiosity or ‘crisis fascination’ afflicts all of us who are plugged in to The World Wide Web. Hair Pin Bends discusses how the internet is an agent in our overindulgence, and the human compulsion to sensational content and its related anxieties.
Through spinning, rolling and twisting seen in imagery of tornados, vortexes and rolling down a grassy hill, these works reflect on the adrenaline associated with being sucked into an internet rabbit hole and the hypnotic state caused by digital rubbernecking (doom scrolling).
I’m feeling vastly different at each edge of these hairpin bends
