BÁS BEATHA
In the Sixties, the Irish Civil Defence produced a set of guidelines describing how to prepare for, and cope with, the fall-out (radioactive dust) which would inevitably blanket Ireland following a nuclear strike on Great Britain. In the aftermath of Chernobyl and Fukushima, the pamphlet's unsettling illustrations and horror poetry read as a work of fantasy.

This strange cultural artefact forms the primary material of How will I know when to go indoors?, Dennis McNulty and Ros Kavanagh's wall installation for Seachange.
How will I know when to go indoors?
BÁS BEATHA is a collaboration between Dennis McNulty and Ros Kavanagh.

Dennis McNulty's work is generated through an investigation of embodied knowledge in relation to other forms of knowledge, often in the context of the built environment. Beginning with detailed research of various kinds, and informed by his studies in psychoacoustics, the works often take hybrid forms, drawing on aspects of cinema, sculpture, sound and performance.

Ros Kavanagh is a documentary photographer based in Dublin, working with the visual arts, performance and architecture. He has been commissioned as an artist by Éigse Carlow, the OPW, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co. Council and Kinsale Arts Festival, and has collaborated with artists such as Kennedy Browne, Brian Hand and Fiona Foley. He has served as chair of the Gallery of Photography Ireland and teaches part time.