Emergencies are unusual and rare (2013)

'To fulfill Parsons' funeral wishes, Kaufman and a friend stole his body from the airport and in a borrowed hearse drove it to Joshua tree. Upon reaching the Cap Rock section of the park, they attempted to cremate Parsons' corpse by pouring five gallons of gasoline into the open coffin and throwing a lit match inside. What resulted was an enormous fireball'... Since there was no law against stealing a dead body, they were only fined $750 for stealing the coffin and were not prosecuted for leaving 35 lbs. of his charred remains in the desert'.

Ciaran Ó Dochartaigh latest project utilises the Golden Thread Gallery's Project Space as a site to juxtapose two recent and adapted works in a new sculptural configuration. Whilst the artist's practice can be seen as an ongoing exploration of national origins and cultural displacement, here the selected works appear to invite the viewer to join the artist as bystander in the act of looking in on the inane, the incomprehensible, and ridiculous of the everyday.

His video Grievous Angel, 2012, depicts the attempted acquisition of a film prop that has gone wrong. The car subsequently becomes engulfed in flames, forcing it to be lowered into a shallow stream. Aquarium (Odradek) (2011) invites the viewer to look beyond the glass and into the dark water populated by: a water chiller, a pump, a filter, a fluorescent light, rocks, a gold fish, a wild brown trout, a worm, and a safety pin. The accompanying soundtrack ruptures the sense of tranquillity that may have otherwise been perceived. Although not related, the narratives conjure a shared experience of time and place.