Book launch: There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park
Line up: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Josephine Sales

There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park

Book launch

7 June 2026, 13-15hr, LAB 111 (chapel)

Address: Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam

There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park is a publication by curator and writer Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. On the occasion of this presentation, Ní Fheorais will be in conversation with artist Josephine Sales and artist, writer and musician Rouzbeh Shadpey. There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park critiques the continuing rise of Ireland as a key location for the global medical technology industry. As multinational corporation revenues soar, state bodies tightly regulate access to publicly-funded healthcare. Ní Fheorais investigates the land-use techniques, landscape aesthetics and architecture of MedTech as an inheritance of the colonial regime of the British Empire and dogma of the Catholic Church that create these conditions. Through her account of the barriers encountered in accessing prosthetic care, it becomes evident that infrastructure plays a crucial role in shaping the politics of healthcare, and how access to medical technologies is managed.

The launch is part of a three-day screening of Josephine Sales's video work PLOT (2026) (RSVP).

Both the publication There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park and the video PLOT are produced in the context of access: practices and habits, an artistic research programme initiated by If I Can't Dance in collaboration with Askeaton Contemporary Arts in Limerick and Bulegoa z/b in Bilbao. Access: practices and habitsis co-funded by the European Union.

Access notes:

- The conversation will take place in English.

- The chapel is located on the lower level of LAB111

- A wheelchair accessible entrance is available. Please write to office@ificantdance.org to get the directions to this entrance.

- All-gender bathrooms, including a wheelchair accessible bathroom, are located on the same floor as the chapel.

- For any other access related inquires, please write to office@ificantdance.org

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