Staged concurrently at five different venues—separated by significant distances over a sizable countywide area—Niamh O’Malley’s multipart exhibition for the inaugural Mayo Arts Collaborative was a dispersed retrospective, a strategically decentered survey. This project was partially born of straitened funding circumstances in Ireland: an imaginative resource-sharing attempt by several regional arts centers to experiment with a locally untested model of joint presentation. But by programming their exhibition in a manner that encouraged venue-to-venue travel across subtly varying rural