Art

Over a period of two years, Nigel Rolfe documented crash-sites in joyriding fatalities in Dublin city, mapping the "violent and tragic incidents" that he sees as underlying the affluence of contemporary Ireland. His video installation Joy, at Temple Bar Gallery, complete with an aggressively speedy dance music soundtrack, chronicles the crash-sites which, he found, are constantly revisited by joyriding youths as shrines. The other installation at Temple Bar, in the Atrium Gallery, is Michael Durand's Airplane II. This is a mediative consideration of the realities of air travel, combining an overhead video projection of passenger aircraft with a series of photographic portraits of cabin crew taken in the immediate aftermath of flight and typified by a disconcerting, sad tiredness and distance.