NOW in progress at two locations in Limerick, Spiders from Mars, two exhibitions experimentally linking a series of contemporary art positions to David Bowie’s 1972 concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars will show at Occupy Space and The Belltable. Ziggy is the human manifestation of an alien being who is attempting to present humanity with a message of hope in the last five years of its existence as the world’s youth pillage the planet’s remains.
Ziggy Stardust warns of the end of civilisation with the arrival of the Infinites through songs such as ‘Starman’ and ‘All the young Dudes’ culminating in Ziggy’s demise on stage with ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’.
Imagined as a loose cohort of reactionaries, the artists in Spiders from Mars twist and contort the environments around them, exposing numerous possibilities for otherworldly encounters in everyday experience. Ziggy’s predicament is situated and played out in Limerick City centre, an urban agglomeration now verging on an apocalyptic recessional dilemma, a place where visual artists and independently-led art spaces have now plundered and taken over the city’s commercial core.
The exhibitions also brings two film screenings starring David Bowie on Saturday April 28 at The Belltable, 1986’s The Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell to Earth from 1976.
The exhibitions run until Saturday April 28 at Occupy Space and until May 11 at The Belltable.
