ANU, Landmark Productions & Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLi)
Ulysses 2.2: 1 Book. 1 Year. 18 Artistic Experiments
‘When Joyce was writing, and when I was a kid, the only place you could really see the whole of Dublin from was the top of Nelson’s Pillar. Joyce imagined it as being like the mountaintop in the Bible from which Moses can see the promised land. I had never before seen the city from a vantage point so high. It was like you owned the place, like, at that moment, the city really belonged to you and you to it.’
— Fintan O’Toole
Promised Land is a Virtual Reality experience exploring themes of memory, commemoration and the abandoned promises of a brighter future.
Hosted in the public office of the General Post Office, once the heart of Dublin city, Promised Land is an opportunity to travel back in time to view Joyce’s Dublin from atop the long-since destroyed Nelson’s Pillar.
Curated by Fintan O'Toole
VR Creation by Viko Nikci, Sean Burns and Jonny Garvey
Sound design: Josh Wilkinson
Digital Producer: Hugh Farrell
Launched on Culture Night at the GPO in September 2022.
Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle
Ealaíon's Open Call Award.