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Author and curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais discusses her new book There's a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park with artist and filmmaker Ilona Sagar.
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.
There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park is published as part of access: practices and habits, a collaborative Creative Europe artistic research programme involving Askeaton Contemporary Arts in Limerick, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution in Amsterdam and Bulegoa z/b in Bilbao unfolding throughout 2026.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer who is currently an Independent Producer at field:arts, working with artists Lyónn Wolf and Rouzbeh Shadpey. Ní Fheorais was the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and has written for publications such as frieze magazine, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal, and Paper Visual Art. She’s the author of the Access Toolkit for Art Workers and has sat on numerous selection panels including EVA’s 41st Platform Commission, Unlimited International Open Award and Edinburgh Arts Festival Platform Award 2023. She's currently co-directing a film with artist Sarah Browne on the drawings of the artist known as J.J. Beegan.
Ilona Sagar is an artist and filmmaker, now resident of Somerset House Studios. Drawing on archival research and interdisciplinary collaboration, her work explores how civic and social identities are constructed and contested through the infrastructures of health, technology, and the body. Recent projects include Other Actors as the Stanley Picker Fellowship in 2025, currently touring to the Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki, Nordic House Reykjavík and Röhsska Museum Gothenburg. Her work has been presented internationally in venues including the 24th International Exhibition at Triennale Milano, Serpentine Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Wellcome Collection, CCA Glasgow, Villa Arson Centre National d'Art Contemporain and Art Rotterdam.
