Fingal County Council Public Art Commission
O'MACHINE O'MACHINE was the resolution of a percent for art commission for Fingal County Council. Artist Brian Duggan created a two part project for this commission, the first part was a 96 page pocket publication of new fiction, titled 'Three thousand and nine', which featured new work by selected Fingal writers, the artist, and included an afterword by the director of the CCA, Glasgow, Francis McKee.
The second part was a digital film 'The Measure'. For this film, Duggan mapped a curious journey through Fingal, citing E.M. Forster`s 1909 short novella ‘The Machine Stops’ as a guiding text to develop a way of re-looking and re-thinking the landscape and the physical changes that have occurred in the county. The film took in a 44km topographical section of Fingal, starting on one end on Colt Island, Skerries and the other at the Huntstown quarry.