A2 Architects in collaboration with John Gerrard, Artist, are invited to participate in EV+A 2010 Limerick.
Eight pig slat benches, echoing the eight pig sheds represented in ‘Grow Finish Unit (near Elkhart, Kansas) 2008’ are installed in the 3rd floor space of a redundant office block in Limerick City. The polished floor is treated as a plain or expanse on which the benches rest. From the windows views are offered to an area of Limerick formerly known as ‘Pigtown’ that once accommodated many slaughterhouses and pig processing factories.
The benches are made from two types of readymade drained slatted floor sections used in pig production farms, one with an undulating anti-slip surface for the sow and the other with a heated floor pan insert to provide comfort to piglets. The public are invited to sit on these benches, and in so doing, can experience a little of what it feels to rest upon them.
Medium: galvanised mild steel floor slats (2200mm x 600mm), galvanised mild steel farrowing cage handles (25mm pipe diameter legs), galvanised mild steel mechanical fixings.
