Project Arts Centre presents Hadley+Maxwell: The Queen still falls to you As part of Dublin Theatre Festival, Hadley+Maxwell present an echoed tale of imperialism at Project Arts Centre. An immersive sculptural installation, The Queen still falls to you builds on tangible historical memory in an intangible, spectre-ridden environment. The story of imperialism and the power of public monuments that Hadley+Maxwell’s work bears witness to is nuanced and personal, and by no means conclusive. Developed from a work originally commissioned by the 19th Biennale of Sydney 2014, The Queen still falls to you is an amassed sculptural record of Queen Victoria’s imposing presence. Originally unveiled as an imperial commission for Leinster House, Dublin in 1908, this once-Irish monument to Queen Victoria survived Ireland’s revolutionary period but was finally decommissioned in 1948. At the request of the Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1986, the towering bronze statue travelled to Australia, where it was presented on permanent loan to the city of Sydney, becoming the crowning partner to the newly restored Queen Victoria Building. e-flux/announcements/hadleymaxwell/
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:00:00 +0000