from Thirteen to One
An exhibition of performance works
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
28-31 May 2014
Live performance 29 May 4-8pm
An exhibition of performance works
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
28-31 May 2014
Live performance 29 May 4-8pm
13 WOMEN Announcing a new moving image work made in collaboration with Paddy Cahill with sound composition by Mike Glennon.
A timelapse video appropriated from a 12 hour live performance at the Hugh Lane Gallery of Art, Dublin, 2013 can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/79687463
A timelapse video appropriated from a 12 hour live performance at the Hugh Lane Gallery of Art, Dublin, 2013 can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/79687463
24 Hours in the Museum
A New Artwork, 2013
24 hours in the Museum is a collaborative project derived from the live performance, The Passing. A 24 hour performance at the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The live performance took place from 7pm on the 17th September to 7pm on the 18th September 2011. 24 hours in the Museum it made of the stories of a series of encounters observed during this 24 hour live performance and is described in 24 pages; one page for each hour.
24 hours in the Museum is a collaborative project derived from the live performance, The Passing. A 24 hour performance at the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The live performance took place from 7pm on the 17th September to 7pm on the 18th September 2011. 24 hours in the Museum it made of the stories of a series of encounters observed during this 24 hour live performance and is described in 24 pages; one page for each hour.
Impromtu in A flat, Insel Hombrich, 2013
COEXIST
A group show curated by Eamonn Maxwell
at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery.
Including drawing by Coogan
of Robert Wilson re-appropriation of her
2001 live performance, Medea.
www.kevinkavanagh.ie
at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery.
Including drawing by Coogan
of Robert Wilson re-appropriation of her
2001 live performance, Medea.
www.kevinkavanagh.ie
Cycling with Amanda
On a windy morning, I went for a cycle with Paddy Cahill and Philip De Roos to Bull Island.
We had a chat, I was nearly blown off the bike. They made a very beautiful film. Cycling with Amanda
Check out their website too www.cyclingwith.com
Yellow, An ArtFilm
http://yellowthefilm.wordpress.com/
Buried deep in the market area off Dublin's Capel Street, almost underground, is the historic Irish abbey, St. Mary’s. Here, in this hallowed space, six women dressed in yellow come, one by one and night after night, to wash and re-wash the long garment they are wearing. With effusive liquid emerging between their legs the action sits on a vertiginous axis between orgasmic and shameful. The ritual of repeatedly submerging and scrubbing the fabric they wear becomes an act of cleansing and rebirth, their raw knuckles scraping, increasingly violently, against the fabric. The grunts and groans of their efforts become haunting sounds echoing throughout the chamber. Their bodies twist and contort, becoming harbingers of an almost talismanic energy; an energy that can be felt like breath on your face, an energy that collectively becomes a triumph of the spirit. This film of that event has as its premise that to endure is to live and finally to triumph. It engages with the shamanist ritual of healing. These six extraordinary performances filmed in a series of epic single takes is an Irish film unlike any other you'll see this year. Amanda Coogan and Paddy Cahill's film presents concurrently on a single canvas the six performances, unfolding over four hours, following the durational nature of the original performances.
Yellow is a collision between Live Performance Art and Film. How do you explore Live Performance Art with Film? Cahill and Coogan have, for the past number of years, worked together recording Live Performances from the Visual Arts. (Seven Steps for the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Accumulator for VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art). It is out of these experiences they began to explore methods of doing justice to what they see as fundemental elements of Live Performance; duration, and the evolution of the physical experience of the performer. To this end Cahill constructed a rig for his camera that allowed freedom of movement with the camera and to record each four hour live performance in one take. Cahill became the seventh performer in the project, reacting to the live performance in an, immediate, embodied way.
Buried deep in the market area off Dublin's Capel Street, almost underground, is the historic Irish abbey, St. Mary’s. Here, in this hallowed space, six women dressed in yellow come, one by one and night after night, to wash and re-wash the long garment they are wearing. With effusive liquid emerging between their legs the action sits on a vertiginous axis between orgasmic and shameful. The ritual of repeatedly submerging and scrubbing the fabric they wear becomes an act of cleansing and rebirth, their raw knuckles scraping, increasingly violently, against the fabric. The grunts and groans of their efforts become haunting sounds echoing throughout the chamber. Their bodies twist and contort, becoming harbingers of an almost talismanic energy; an energy that can be felt like breath on your face, an energy that collectively becomes a triumph of the spirit. This film of that event has as its premise that to endure is to live and finally to triumph. It engages with the shamanist ritual of healing. These six extraordinary performances filmed in a series of epic single takes is an Irish film unlike any other you'll see this year. Amanda Coogan and Paddy Cahill's film presents concurrently on a single canvas the six performances, unfolding over four hours, following the durational nature of the original performances.
Yellow is a collision between Live Performance Art and Film. How do you explore Live Performance Art with Film? Cahill and Coogan have, for the past number of years, worked together recording Live Performances from the Visual Arts. (Seven Steps for the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Accumulator for VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art). It is out of these experiences they began to explore methods of doing justice to what they see as fundemental elements of Live Performance; duration, and the evolution of the physical experience of the performer. To this end Cahill constructed a rig for his camera that allowed freedom of movement with the camera and to record each four hour live performance in one take. Cahill became the seventh performer in the project, reacting to the live performance in an, immediate, embodied way.
