KinShip Project presents: Cluas 2025 a celebration of live sound art that considers the subterranean, the ground and the aerial in Tramore Valley Park. Invited soundartists are asked to perform an unplugged sound art composition based loosely on the KinShip project themes of the subterranean, the ground and the aerial.

The Subterranean – Underground Encounters
We ask how do we engage with the ‘underground’ as a very particular spatial context that generates insight and questions that unsettle and confront practices of sub-surface extraction, burial, or dumping?  The subterranean and the underground are rich sites of provocation and cultural imagination, we invite the public to be with the underground, to investigate, to encounter and imagine the living underworlds of water, microbes, worms, bacteria, and mycelium networks. 

The Ground – Grounded Encounters
We ask how do we engage with the ground as a spatial context on which we build our habitats and communities?  We share this ground with the broader community of life growing, inhabiting, breathing, and shaping. We invite the public to be with the ground in a reciprocal capacity, to encounter, to listen, to remediate, to co-create. 

The Aerial – Airborne Encounters
We ask how do we engage with the aerial, the overground space of weather, flight, molecules of scent, territorial birdsong, broadcast signals, surveillance, and power?  How do develop an enhanced awareness of our co-existence with the airborne, vaporous, and atmospheric wider community of life over ground? We invite the public to be with the aerial, to investigate, to encounter and imagine.

Background to the KinShip Project at Tramore Valley Park Cork
The KinShip Project is a durational public artwork (2021-2025) at Tramore Valley Park by Cork City Council in partnership with artists Marilyn Lennon and Sean Taylor, funded by Creative Ireland. Other project partners include Nature Network Ireland, Cork Healthy Cities, MTU, UCC, UNESCO Cork Learning Cities.

Tramore Valley Park was opened as a public park in 2019 on land reclaimed from the old Kinsale Road Landfill site - a former municipal solid waste /non-hazardous industrial waste disposal facility, of approximately 72 hectares. The site occupies a large expanse of low-lying peat bog, bounded to the north and east by the Trabeg River, to the west by the South City Link Road and on the south by the Tramore River and South Ring Road.

The official opening of the KinShip, EcoLab took place in May 2024. The rammed earth and thatched structure functions as an outdoor hub for ecological creative and educational activities, public workshops, gatherings and events by local groups and organisations which focus on biodiversity, waste flows, eco-practices, and climate action.