Abstract The exhibition, Static Vision is the creative output of the practice-based research and examines the sites derived from the collapse of Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy in the late 2000s. It questions how we perceive place in Ireland today and examines the correlation between the ephemeral celluloid fabric of photography and film, and the decay and stains of time displayed on the unfinished structures of the contemporary ruin, each a temporal barometer, physically registering memory, the imprint and history of time.

Polaroid photography is employed for its distinct indexical, temporal, material and visual qualities, and to facilitate an intuitive interaction with these abandoned sites. This creative practice encourages a dialogue between the activity of looking and recording, and that of delivering on-site single framed images and objects, a dialogue that can also probe the dichotomies between the past and present, the fixed single moment and the sequential fixed moment.

Recordings are made in Super 8 to examine celluloid’s ephemeral, and temporal qualities, and to investigate the medium’s transformative capacity through engaging with its alchemical processes and presentational properties. The research examines how this low gauge medium and its capacity to interpret time, duration and movement can also communicate stasis, and Super 8’s textural qualities and static shots are also analysed within this context to emulate the abandoned sites in between condition - stuck in time, yet slowly evolving and changing.

The project explores how the increasing obsolescence of analogue technologies draws parallels to the condition of Ireland’s contemporary domestic and commercial ruins, signifying a past time and period of progress and modernity, but now discarded, redundant and abandoned, challenges its medium specificity and offers a new approach to merging, re-interpreting and experiencing disparate forms of obsolescence and ruination.