Gareth Kennedy mixes elements of art, architecture, performance and design. His practice concerns itself with the confluence of ideas of the modern and the vernacular. He ventures to build vulnerability into his works through their often temporary nature and through a commitment to making works which also function as an interface with everyday situations.

Gareth Kennedy's project for Venice draws on the mainstream cultural capital associated with music from Ireland. He transplants buskers (street performers) firstly from Dublin city centre into aspiring civic spaces within Dublin's transforming docklands and subsequently, invites them to recreate their performances in the altogether different port setting of Venice. Kennedy assesses busking as a micro-economic and socio-economic act. He surveys the architecture and ambitions of these settings and their respective and concomitant relationships to the performing artist, observing nuances of an informal economy and how in some instances, such economic and social transactions are deemed a vital part of a city while in others, they are unwanted or illegal. It is a work about values, and what gets valued.