Yellow - re performed
This case study has expanded somewhat since January.
It will be held in Mary's Abbey in Dublin, a crypt and public venue (Alanna O'Kelly made her seminal Famine Performance there).
I have also expanded the artists to reperform it to include two actresses - Deirdre Roycroft and Olwen Fouere. (Olwen is still to confirm as she has been availability checked for a play to go on during the festival aswell).
Here is my proposal for the piece so far!
This case study has expanded somewhat since January.
It will be held in Mary's Abbey in Dublin, a crypt and public venue (Alanna O'Kelly made her seminal Famine Performance there).
I have also expanded the artists to reperform it to include two actresses - Deirdre Roycroft and Olwen Fouere. (Olwen is still to confirm as she has been availability checked for a play to go on during the festival aswell).
Here is my proposal for the piece so far!
Amanda Coogan is to the forefront of live performance in the Visual Arts in Ireland. Coogan's durational performance Yellow will be produced, in series, by 5 artists: Amanda Coogan, Victoria Mc Cormack, Ann Maria Healy, Deirdre Roycroft and Olwen Fouere (TBC) This experimental project will test the notion of the re performance of a Visual Art performance. A non-text based piece of work steeped in the image and a visual arts heritage, This work sits in the boundaries between performance in the Visual Arts and experimental Theatre. Contemporary performance in the Visual Arts is currently at a place of change. This project will explore the immediacy of the creative relationship between creator/artist and performer, uncovering what will happen a piece of live performance as it is remade by different artists. Traditionally the presence of the live performer making this kind of work is the central part of it’s dynamism and magnetism. Coogan’s practice comes from the lineage of Joseph Beuys , Marina Abramovic and Alastair Mac Lennan. The focus of such an experiment is to uncover the boundaries of presence in a piece of live performance from the visual arts. The framing of such a work is central. Placing the work in the DFestival will highlight and safe guard the live aspect of the piece. In addition to the centrality of the live experience in the theatre, the image and the loop of Yellow has strong affiliations to Beckett’s late plays and is, in general, an important node of reference for contemporary performance in the visual arts. Indeed Beckett’s late plays alongside John Cage’s manuscripts will be influential in formulating the map of the piece. This map or script for it’s re performance will be developed in visual and text form taking into account the action and emotion of the piece.
This project will critically engage with contemporary performance in the Visual arts. Performance art is a slippery term. The schism with theatre practice is becoming less relevant with many theatres and practionners crossing freely between the disiplines.
Ireland has a vibrant and long standing tradition of live performance in the Visual Arts. Many reason have been cited for this including Alastair Mac Lennan’s practice and Samuel Beckett theatre work. The inclusion of this work, would be facilitating the writing of a ‘script’ in both practical and physical terms, for a new but related discipline.
Action: sitting on a white plastic bin filled with water and bubble bath.
The performer sits wearing an over sized yellow dress emersing the skirt of the dress in the liquid between her legs and scrubbing it.The piece explores and questions issues of concentration, will power, determination and presence.
This "Tableau Vivant" features the artist dressed in a large yellow dress, continuously washing her skirt in a bucket of soap water, while a piano piece by Franz Schubert is played intermittently. The work refers to the Magdalene Laundries, where penance was worked out through washing.
Yellow is an established piece of work from Coogan.
She has performed it at:
The Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin for 6 hours, 2008
Artists Space, New York - 5 days, 6 hours per day, 2008
Trace Gallery, Cardiff- 6 hours, 2008
And most recently in
Nuns Island, Galway- 4 hours, 2009
Yellow- re performed will take place over five days - 4 hours per day – one performer per day..
The artist will perform on the first day.
With the Artists Ann Marie Healy and Victoria Mc Cormack and Actors Deirdre Roycroft and Olwen Fouere performing subsequently.
This project will critically engage with contemporary performance in the Visual arts. Performance art is a slippery term. The schism with theatre practice is becoming less relevant with many theatres and practionners crossing freely between the disiplines.
Ireland has a vibrant and long standing tradition of live performance in the Visual Arts. Many reason have been cited for this including Alastair Mac Lennan’s practice and Samuel Beckett theatre work. The inclusion of this work, would be facilitating the writing of a ‘script’ in both practical and physical terms, for a new but related discipline.
Action: sitting on a white plastic bin filled with water and bubble bath.
The performer sits wearing an over sized yellow dress emersing the skirt of the dress in the liquid between her legs and scrubbing it.The piece explores and questions issues of concentration, will power, determination and presence.
This "Tableau Vivant" features the artist dressed in a large yellow dress, continuously washing her skirt in a bucket of soap water, while a piano piece by Franz Schubert is played intermittently. The work refers to the Magdalene Laundries, where penance was worked out through washing.
Yellow is an established piece of work from Coogan.
She has performed it at:
The Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin for 6 hours, 2008
Artists Space, New York - 5 days, 6 hours per day, 2008
Trace Gallery, Cardiff- 6 hours, 2008
And most recently in
Nuns Island, Galway- 4 hours, 2009
The artist will perform on the first day.
With the Artists Ann Marie Healy and Victoria Mc Cormack and Actors Deirdre Roycroft and Olwen Fouere performing subsequently.
Mary's Abbey, Dublin run by the OPW.
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