NONARNIA
NONARNIA is a multi-part project exploring displacement, urban change and the symbolic violence of regeneration in East Belfast. Developed in response to the construction of C.S. Lewis Square and the wider redevelopment of the Newtownards Road area, the work used a domestic wardrobe as a recurring object: part shelter, part monument, part absurd protest structure.
Across a series of performances, public actions and online exchanges, the wardrobe became a way to think about memory, housing, class, fantasy and exclusion. The project moved between street performance, social media participation, processional action and gallery installation, gathering traces of place, humour, grief and resistance.
The work later developed into Unsettlement, an installation at Platform Arts, where documentation, found materials, scaffolding, monitors and sculptural structures reassembled the project as a fragmented archive of urban pressure and contested belonging. Together, NONARNIA / Unsettlement reflects on how places are renamed, reimagined and redeveloped, and what is displaced in the process.
Across a series of performances, public actions and online exchanges, the wardrobe became a way to think about memory, housing, class, fantasy and exclusion. The project moved between street performance, social media participation, processional action and gallery installation, gathering traces of place, humour, grief and resistance.
The work later developed into Unsettlement, an installation at Platform Arts, where documentation, found materials, scaffolding, monitors and sculptural structures reassembled the project as a fragmented archive of urban pressure and contested belonging. Together, NONARNIA / Unsettlement reflects on how places are renamed, reimagined and redeveloped, and what is displaced in the process.