The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026
Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù
Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026 is an exhibition by 20 artists from Southeast Asia, Serbia, and Ireland at the Venice Biennale de Arte at Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù. As part of the collateral events, the exhibition focuses on the theme of maritime routes as pathways of exchange, rupture, and renewal, tracing how stories of migration, diaspora, and spiritual resilience move in quiet tones across oceans and generations. We are delighted to include the work of renowned Irish artist Amanda Coogan in this exhibition exploring strangeness, melancholy and solace in relation to identity, diaspora, displacement and human migration.
Coogan will show her Ode to Joy - Thai Sign Language video work, transposing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony into body language. The work hones the spirits of rage, resistance, resilience and hope. Working with a Thai Deaf choir the work re-members this totemic symphony with the magnetic power of Coogan in performance. Coogan’s participation is gratefully supported by Culture Ireland.
For The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026 Coogan will make a specially commissioned live performance; Sabat Mater. Celebrated for her power in live performance, Coogan is at the forefront of durational performance art practice. This live performance considers Vivaldi’s Sabat Mater - composed for the women and girl of the Venetian orphanage Ospedale Della Pietà. Transforming the work through Irish Sign Language and Coogan’s embodied performance, her live performance will be layered with resistance, resilience, mourning and rage. She will be live throughout the vernissage week 6 - 8 May. On Saturday 9 May, the first public day at the Biennale, Coogan will be joined by tenor Aleksandar Timotić who will singing Vivaldi’s Sabat Mater alongside Coogan’s performance. smc26.bkkartbiennale.com
Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù
Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026 is an exhibition by 20 artists from Southeast Asia, Serbia, and Ireland at the Venice Biennale de Arte at Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù. As part of the collateral events, the exhibition focuses on the theme of maritime routes as pathways of exchange, rupture, and renewal, tracing how stories of migration, diaspora, and spiritual resilience move in quiet tones across oceans and generations. We are delighted to include the work of renowned Irish artist Amanda Coogan in this exhibition exploring strangeness, melancholy and solace in relation to identity, diaspora, displacement and human migration.
Coogan will show her Ode to Joy - Thai Sign Language video work, transposing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony into body language. The work hones the spirits of rage, resistance, resilience and hope. Working with a Thai Deaf choir the work re-members this totemic symphony with the magnetic power of Coogan in performance. Coogan’s participation is gratefully supported by Culture Ireland.
For The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026 Coogan will make a specially commissioned live performance; Sabat Mater. Celebrated for her power in live performance, Coogan is at the forefront of durational performance art practice. This live performance considers Vivaldi’s Sabat Mater - composed for the women and girl of the Venetian orphanage Ospedale Della Pietà. Transforming the work through Irish Sign Language and Coogan’s embodied performance, her live performance will be layered with resistance, resilience, mourning and rage. She will be live throughout the vernissage week 6 - 8 May. On Saturday 9 May, the first public day at the Biennale, Coogan will be joined by tenor Aleksandar Timotić who will singing Vivaldi’s Sabat Mater alongside Coogan’s performance. smc26.bkkartbiennale.com
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The Bangkok Art Biennale
www.bkkartbiennale.com/artist/amanda-coogan
(and we even got to meet #moodeng )
The Ravens brought it - The Beautiful Now
Thank you Wuppertal! and to an incredible team of performers, documenters, minders and visionaries.
Ralf Silberkuhl for these astonishing captures of the live performances
and www.kunstkomplex.net for the wonderful invitation.
The 12 screen film of the live performance is up next!
Thank you Wuppertal! and to an incredible team of performers, documenters, minders and visionaries.
Ralf Silberkuhl for these astonishing captures of the live performances
and www.kunstkomplex.net for the wonderful invitation.
The 12 screen film of the live performance is up next!
Freude! Freude! Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin - October 2023
The Possession Project - LIVE @ The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
14 - 18 June 2022 12 - 3pm daily
a new living installation in collaboration with Alvean Jones, Lianne Quigley
The Drama Students of the SETU & The Dublin Theatre of the Deaf
The Drama Students of the SETU & The Dublin Theatre of the Deaf
The ladder is always there, 2018, Amanda Coogan + Phase Eight Theatre Company for MOCA, Jacksonville
The Naked Hands written by Jane O'Brien and Paula Clarke for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Gnawing on the bones - reflections on Beuys for the Hugh Lane Gallery's study morning - January 2022
They Come Then, The Birds @Rua Red, Tallaght, Dublin www.ruared.ie
As Galleries, exhibitions and Live Performances are on hold I've gone back to the 'drawing board'.
I'm dreaming, remembering, enduring and waiting.
Enduring becomes dreaming.
I wait more.
I watch more.
Some links above to recent work - click on the image.
I'm dreaming, remembering, enduring and waiting.
Enduring becomes dreaming.
I wait more.
I watch more.
Some links above to recent work - click on the image.
Bread & Roses, for This Place
@ the Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown January - March 2020
Programme Notes: Case studies for locating experimental theatre
Edited by Lois Keidan and CJ Mitchell. CO-PUBLISHED BY OBERON BOOKS & LIVE ART DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
This revised and expanded edition includes the original contributions whilst illustrating some of the seismic shifts that have taken place across the theatre landscape of the UK since 2007 through profiles of the work of Manchester International Festival (with new contributions by Marina Abramovic, Alex Poots and Amanda Coogan), National Theatre of Scotland (Vicky Featherstone and Mary Brennan), BAC (Battersea Arts Centre; David Micklem and David Jubb) and Forest Fringe (Andy Field and Deborah Pearson). Programme Notes is a collection of commissioned essays, case studies and interviews reflecting the exciting and complex relationships between ‘mainstream’ stages and ‘experimental’ theatre practices.
Edited by Lois Keidan and CJ Mitchell. CO-PUBLISHED BY OBERON BOOKS & LIVE ART DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
This revised and expanded edition includes the original contributions whilst illustrating some of the seismic shifts that have taken place across the theatre landscape of the UK since 2007 through profiles of the work of Manchester International Festival (with new contributions by Marina Abramovic, Alex Poots and Amanda Coogan), National Theatre of Scotland (Vicky Featherstone and Mary Brennan), BAC (Battersea Arts Centre; David Micklem and David Jubb) and Forest Fringe (Andy Field and Deborah Pearson). Programme Notes is a collection of commissioned essays, case studies and interviews reflecting the exciting and complex relationships between ‘mainstream’ stages and ‘experimental’ theatre practices.
Irish Stamp Collection
An Post, the Irish Postal service, printed a booklet of stamps celebrating Irish Contemporary Artists which included Coogan's The Fall, 2009
An Post Collections
An Post, the Irish Postal service, printed a booklet of stamps celebrating Irish Contemporary Artists which included Coogan's The Fall, 2009
An Post Collections
The Huffington Post
Thank you to the lovely Huffington Post, for including Amanda's work in their look at Irish Artists;
Irish Artists: Celebrating St. Patrick's Day With Our 5 Favorite Irish Aesthetes
they link to video footage of Yellow in Artists Space, New York, with some great company too!
Thank you to the lovely Huffington Post, for including Amanda's work in their look at Irish Artists;
Irish Artists: Celebrating St. Patrick's Day With Our 5 Favorite Irish Aesthetes
they link to video footage of Yellow in Artists Space, New York, with some great company too!