We will soon update the upcoming exhibition and public program of Roaring Winds Radio as part of the Glenkeen Variations exhibition at the Crespo House in October 2026.
Soon, we’ll be sharing some beautiful conversations we were lucky to have with Kathy Crockett, Joe O’Leary, Caroline O’Donnell, Chris MacMahon, Paul Ó Colmáin, and Marie Cullen about the role of art, nature, music, and (extended) family in creating open, welcoming communities.
Running through all of their stories is a simple but powerful idea: thriving towns don’t just happen. They grow through the ongoing effort to create moments of shared joy, connection, and freedom of expression, over generations, from Ballydehob’s Jazz Parade and Samhain celebrations to Wren Day and so much more. And sometimes bad cellphone reception and the swampy smell of an estuary help out a little.
We were delighted to sit down together and reflect on the “small but big” achievements that help make a place feel alive, welcoming, and full of possibility.
Mbuchi will be live on Roaring Winds Radio, talking about aerial transmission from spores and pollen to language, broadcast to breath, drawing on the history of radio and the kite-assisted experiments of Guglielmo Marconi at Crookhaven, the site of the earliest transatlantic wireless transmissions. As part of the The Glenkeen Variations: Gathering Winds presentation of the Crespo Foundation Art residency. Watch the livestream below at 3 pm (Irish time) on the 15th of May.
more info: https://westcorkartscentre.com/event/the-glenkeen-variations-gathering-winds/
We will be live at the opening of Gathering Winds from the Goethe Institute, at 37 Merrion Square, 13 May 2026 at 6 pm, in Dublin. Talking about kites, the importance of community radio, Marconi’s pirate station in West Cork’s infamous pirate harbor, Crookhaven. Watch the livestream below at 6 pm (Irish time) on the 13th of May.
more info at: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ie/en/ver.cfm?event_id=27266404
“On Monday, December 9th, barely three days after my arrival, I and my assistants began work on Signal Hill. The weather was very bad and very cold. On the Tuesday we flew a kite with 600 feet of antenna wire as a preliminary test, and on the Wednesday, we had inflated one of our small balloons, which made its first ascent during the morning. Owing, however, to the strength of the wind, the balloon soon broke away and disappeared in the mist. I then concluded that perhaps kites would answer better and decided to use them for the crucial test. On 12th December, 1901, under strong wind conditions, a kite was launched with a 155 m long wire. The wind carried it away. A second kite was launched with a 152 m wire attached. The kite bobbed and weaved in the sky.
I had arranged with my assistants in Cornwall to send a series of “S’s” at a prearranged speed during certain hours of the day. I chose the letter “S” because it was easy to transmit, and with the very primitive apparatus used at Poldhu I was afraid that the transmission of other Morse signals, which included dashes, might perhaps cause too much strain on it and break it down.”
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MBUCHI House#2 : 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
Saturday, 26th April, 16:30 – 20:00
Mbuchi is the first word of Bigu. It is world(s), it is anything you want to express, it is mutual understanding. It is also a gezin collective.
𝗠𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 is the complicity of an intimate encounter by sharing a hallway, a kitchen and a garden. It is gathering in the fortunate moments we can.
For the #2 session, we’re absolutely thrilled to present 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, with 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗰í𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗼. 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 is a performative reading that brings together stories shaped by the desire to find a place to nest. Through a children’s story and shadow play, Amauta and David will share their search for housing, something that has been followed throughout their family histories. Now in the Netherlands, the search for a house has become especially intense, revealing itself as a global, intimate, and generational point of reflection on what it means to have a home.
Amauta García and David Camargo are Mexican artists based in the Netherlands. They work with action-research and collaborative methods at the intersection of architecture, sculpture, moving image, and storytelling. Their projects focus on untold narratives of urban extractivism and environmental affectivity, in territories where the land is overexploited to sustain cities, from real estate speculation to underwater natural gas extraction.
𝗠𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗶 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 happens in Scheveningen, very close to the beach. You can have a day in the dunes and later, around 16:30, ring the bell to join us for some storytelling about nests.The performance will start at 17:00 followed by a meal prepared by David and David.
𝙋𝙡𝙯 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩
The drawing for this flyer was made by Bigu.
MBUCHI House #1 : a tear, drowning a river, drowning an ocean
Saturday, 26th July, 16:30 – 20:00
Since we moved here, it has been a dream of ours to share our home for performative gatherings and to share a meal in intimacy. And now, finally, we decided to start, just the way life flows.
𝘔𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪 is the way we call our family as a collective: David, Eva and Bigu, our turtle love, who also invented the word. It was the first one that Bigu used frequently to name the world, to claim it his own. It didn’t have a specific meaning. It could be anything and yet, we understood it well. That’s why this word is so dear to us, it implies a mutual understanding beyond any official language. Here, 𝘔𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘪, signifies the complicity of an intimate encounter by sharing a hallway, a garden and a table. Just like we do with our (chosen) families, in the fortunate moments we can.
We have the honor to start 𝗠𝗯𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗶 #𝟭 with 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗿, 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 by 𝗙𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗶𝘇𝘃𝗶. He will be thinking and working through tears, the notions of tearing up and tearing down. Fazal will be turning to shia rituals of mourning and remembering, in an attempt to turn and return to the body – and to the earth body. Mourning here would be seen as a form of flooding and witnessing, and would simultaneously also serve as a means of cleansing, repair and renewal.
Fazal’s lecture performance will be centered and structured around the traditions of marsiya and soz khwani, which are poetic and performative traditions that have developed within South Asia, archiving stories of resistance from the battle of Karbala. He will activate and think through the element of water as it journeys across time and place, from its molecular form to more oceanic and emotional state/s.
You could have a day on the beach and later around 16:30, ring the bell to join us, to listen, to shed and collect tears. The lecture performance will start at 17:00 followed by a meal prepared by Fazal and David. 💧
𝙋𝙡𝙯 𝘿𝙈 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙢 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 .
The drawing for this flyer was also made in collab with Biguzaa
