Varvara Shavrova (visual artist and curator, Ireland/ Russia) in collaboration with Xi Chuan (poet, China), Helen Wing (poet, UK) and Vincent Woods (poet and RTE1 presenter, Ireland) proposed the creation of a public art installation and performance project commemorating Seamus Heaney in Beijing by using the poet’s two poems, ‘Digging’ and ‘Belderg’, as genesis texts. Supported by Irish Embassy in Beijing and Arup Beijing Office