Music Reveiw: DJ David Holmes at RHA Gallery, Dublin

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David Holmes’ five hour set at the Royal Hibernian Academy’s central Dublin gallery was a journey into the unexpected. In a white-walled downstairs space, the Belfast DJ and soundtrack composer diligently mashed cinematic swells, house beats and krautrock grooves.

Upstairs, meanwhile, guests sipped complimentary drinks from event sponsors Hennessy and participated in games of handball in an impromptu court installed in a yawning gallery room. From there, the curious wandered into a second exhibition hall and an instillation by artist Maria McKinney that scrutinised the relationship between science and agriculture via a series of photographs of cattle with paper mache adornments on their backs. ‘Eclectic’ hardly begins to cover it.