"For regions do not suddenly end, as far as I know, but gradually merge into one another. And I never noticed anything of the kind, but however far I went, and in no matter what direction, it was always the same sky, always the same earth, precisely, day after day and night after night. On the other hand, if it is true that regions gradually merge into one another, and this remains to be proved, then I may well have left mine many times, thinking I was still within it. But I preferred to abide by my simple feeling and its voice that said, Molloy, your region is vast, you have never left it and you never shall."

-- from Samuel Beckett's Molloy

Recognizable plot, characters, setting and movement gradually disappeared through the course of Beckett's writings in favor of an exploration of consciousness and the language that alternately describes or fails to describe the self and its place in the world. However, in the novel Molloy a landscape still exists: Ballybaba.

This collaboration is a journey into a possible Ballybaba: an installation and an imaginary environment where space, photos, sound, objects and light projections provoke visitors into a series of perceptual questions. Visitors become participants, active agents in the life-world of Ballybaba. The rarified environment has kinetic elements and events that insist on the primary experience of time and attention, and their direct relation to the participants' imagination. To witness, to perceive, is to be involved.

Humans are very flexible when it comes to matters of scale. A locket encompasses the vast regions of eternity and romantic love, while an entire nation is reduced to the word "terrorist." Molloy moves through the landscape, and the landscape moves through him. As large as the world is, it is always at the limit of our perception. There is a type of subtle beauty that Molloy discovers among the muck and discomfort of being human. We all share the same inheritance: a body that will eventually fail, and a world that is at turns benevolent and malignant. To maintain an acute awareness of ourselves and our surroundings is a heroic act. Let us be these heroes.

Contributing Artists: Dylan Bolles, Keith Evans, Dianne Jones, Michael Meyers