Hot Air—EL Putnam
Wed, Sep 24, 2025 13:00 PM - 14:30 PM
Blessington Road, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Overview
About this Event
13:00—16:30, Wednesday, 24 September
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: AWS Data Centre to TUD Tallaght Campus, to South Dublin County Hall
We give them data–they give us hot air.
Terra is an android technological diviner who has been hired to map the route of heat produced from the AWS data centre through the public utility system that is used to warm select municipal buildings in Tallaght. Her embodied actions create a double tracing through footsteps and collected breaths; bodily rhythms keeping pace with machinic tempos. The performance culminates in a Ritual of Tracing to be presented outside the South Dublin County offices.
Hot Air asks what happens when we attune ourselves to the invisible flows of our computational infrastructures, drawing attention to our unacknowledged entanglements and complicities with these systems.
This performance is part of an ongoing collaboration between Putnam and author Mike McCormack, initially presented as Under the Feet of Shadows, which merges science fiction with folklore, imagined and actual mythologies, and histories of technology in Ireland as a multimedia speculative inquiry.
About EL Putnam
EL Putnam is an artist working predominantly in performance art and digital technologies. Their practice focuses on borders and entanglements, particularly the interplay of human embodiment with the machinic. EL actively presents artworks and performances across the United States, Europe, and beyond. They have received funding from Culture Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland, and Westmeath County Council.
Exhibitions of note include Under the Feet of Shadows with Mike McCormack at Mart Gallery in Dublin, Ireland (2024) and CIACLA in Los Angeles, CA (2025), the solo exhibition PseudoRandom at Emerson Contemporary in Boston, MA, USA (2023), and Living Canvas in Dublin, Ireland (2022). They are Associate Professor of Digital Media at Maynooth University and reside in Co. Westmeath.
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