Manchán Magan
Between April & September 2020 Sea Tamagotchi will visit:
Idir Aibreán & Meán Fhómhair 2020 rachaidh Sea Tamagotchi go:
Sea Tamagotchi
The artist, Emily Robyn Archer, creates artworks out of these words/placenames using bits of beachcombed waste. Visitors are encouraged to make their own artworks using a word that resonates with them, by painting, printing or stamping them on rocks, shells, sea-bleached timber, or other bits of beach detritus.
GAILLIMH/ GALWAY: Cathair na Gaillimhe, Inis Mór, An Cheathrú Rua
TIR CHONAIL/ DONEGAL: Árainn Mhór, Gleann Colm Cille
SLIGEACH/ SLIGO: Inis Muirígh, An Ros (Inismurray, Rosses Point)
MAIGH EO/ MAYO: Acaill, Béal an Mhuirthead (Achill Island, Belmullet)
ALBAIN/ SCOTLAND: Streórnabhágh ar Leódhas, Sleat ar An t-Eilean Sgitheanach
(Stornoway on Isle of Lewis, Sleat on Isle of Skye)
Sea Tamagotchi culminates in a grand celebratory gathering in Galway for European Day of Languages, 26th Sept, where the full dictionary of rediscovered words will be gifted to the world.
Cuirfear Sea Tamagotchi i gcríoch le teacht le chéile mór ceiliúrtha do Lá Eorpach na dTeangacha, 26ú Meán Fhómhair, áit a mbronnfar an foclóir iomlán d’fhocail athaimsithe ar an domhan mór
Sea Tamagotchi: Foclóir Farraige is a linguistic art project that celebrates endangered maritime words and placenames in the coastal regions of Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Donegal and Scotland.
Manchán Magan wanders the sea-roads of Connaught, Ulster and the Scottish Hebrides gathering sea words, placenames and coastal customs with the help of local folklorists and linguists.
Is tionscadal ealaíne teangeolaíochta é Sea Tamagotchi: Foclóir Farraige ina ndéantar focail agus logainmneacha muirí atá i mbaol a gcaillte a cheiliúradh sna ceantair chois cósta i nGaillimh, Maigh Eo, Sligeach, Dún na nGall agus Alban.
Téann Manchán Magan ar camchuairt timpeall na mbealaí farraige i gCúige Connachta, Uladh agus iar-thuaisceart Alban in éineacht le béaloideasóir áitiúil, cartagrafaí nó teangeolaí, agus logainmneacha agus focail atá ligthe i ndearmad á lorg agus á mbailiú aige.
Scaiptear iad sin ar an bpobal ansin ag stainnín mar a bheadh ag carnabhal ina dtugtar cuireadh do dhaoine cluichí a imirt, ag scaipeadh na bhfocal lena linne.
He then distributes his cache of maritime lore to the public at a carnival-like market stall, where people are invited to play games, circulating the words in the process.