A performative journey which takes you to the Irish bog landscape through scent. Distillation is a response to the recent cessation of the peat harvesting industry in Ireland.

Over the past year, Luke Casserly has collaborated with renowned perfume maker Joan Woods to create a unique distillation of the Midlands bog – the place where he grew up – as the starting point for an olfactory encounter which looks at our human relationship to place. Dedicated to the future of our broken landscapes – in the hope that by listening to them, we might be able to better understand them.

Part lecture, part performance, the project is an ambitious attempt to look at our human relationship to landscape through scent. As an artist from the Irish Midlands, Luke was inspired to make the piece in response to the recent cessation of the peat harvesting industry, as a way of stretching out further conversations around the environmental potential of the Irish bog landscape.

Luke has collaborated with renowned perfume maker Joan Woods over the past year to create a unique distillation of the Irish bog, the starting point for an olfactory performance which attempts to translate the landscape for a live audience in an intimate and inventive way. Each audience member will be invited to smell the custom-made perfume as part of the performance.

Supported by Creative Ireland, Goethe-Institut Irland, with additional development support by IMMA, Druid FUEL, and Backstage Theatre’s Activate Residency programme.

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