‘Undercut: As Below, So Above’ at The Substation, November 2025

12 November 2025

The Beta Festival is back this year, exploring ideas of fluidity across water, language, information and quantum states.

Undercurrent: As Below, So Above, showcases the work of Kat Austen, Lauren Moffatt, and Siobhán McDonald. Kat Austen’s Not Breaking, This Wave Drowns Hate, listens to the ocean through microplastics and community-created AI, offering visions of symbiotic futures. Lauren Moffatt’s Chorcorallium immerses visitors in speculative reef ecologies where industrial debris becomes the foundation for imagined coral life, shaped by collective voices and artificial intelligence. Siobhán McDonald’s SHAPESHIFTER traces Dublin Port’s shifting identities, from wetlands to rising seas, layering scientific data with film, painting, and sculpture to reveal unseen histories and fragile futures.

Together, these works transform ports and oceans into sites of imagination and repair, using art and technology to question how we might live with, listen to, and learn from water in an age of crisis and change.

Where: The Substation

When: 7th November – 23rd November 2025

Open Wednesdays to Sundays 2-6pm

Free Entry

Find out more about the Beta Festival here.