Live Performances

The core of Coogan's practice are her live performances. Her focus is on how time (or duration) affects her live utterances. She contends that each live performance shifts and changes with the influence of site, time, audience and action. Liveness is a moment of dynamic controlled instability.

2023
​Ode to Joy, Crawford Gallery of Art, Cork, for Cork Midsummer festival

Freude! Freude!, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

2022
​The Possession Project, Hugh Lane Gallery of Art, Dublin

2021
​They Come Then, The Birds, Rua Red Gallery, Tallaght
​
​(..this is terribly out of date - ill get to it one of these fine days!)
2019
​Embodiement - Galleria Stock, Vienna

Elliptical Affinities, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda

The Ladder is always there, Contemporary Irish Art Centre Los Angeles

The ballad of Now,
Solo Performance
6 hours
​Galeria Kunstcomplex, Wuppertal

​

2018
Floats in the Aether, National Gallery of Ireland

The Ladder is always there, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, US
Acts to Objects, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

​Dolores, Dublin Dance Festival; Hands in Blue, The Umberellas of Phnom Penh; Cowards, Steakhouse Live, Toynbee Studios, London.

2017
​Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady, The Peacock Theatre, Dublin;
I’ll sing you a song from around the town, The Niemeyer Centre, Spain

Cowards, Project Arts Centre, Dublin;
Cowards, University of Oviedo, Spain;
Silent Dinner, Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow
​

2016

Run to the Rock,
​A group performance for the Belfast International Arts Festival. Based on the Robbin Island Bible and funded by the British Council's Shakespeare Lives project. The MAC, Belfast;
I'll Sing you a song from around the Town,
a series of re-performances, solo, group and re-performance collaborators.
West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen, Ireland

Don't Push the River
Solo performance
8 hours per day, 2 days
AS ONE, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

The Passing-Revisited
Solo performance
6 hours
Niemeyer Centre, Aviles, Spain

On Corporation Street
Solo Performance
3 hours per day, 10 days
Anu Productions, HOME, Manchester, UK

Once More
Group performance
​1 hour
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Don't Push the River
Solo performance
2 hours and 5 hours
The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland

2009
How to explain the sea to an uneaten potatoe

live performance 
Duration: 4 hours
Location: Bull Walk, Dublin

​Yellow-Expanded
Solo performance
Nun's Island, Tulca 09

Cutpiece
Solo performance
VISUAL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
Photographer: Colm Hogan

The Fall
Solo Performance
The Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

The Fall, Whitworth Gallery
Solo performance
Photographer: Marco Anelli

2015

Silent Dinner,
Group Performance
8 hours
FADO, Toronto
 
Smoking in Bolero,
Group Performance
16 minutes
Live Collision Festival, Dublin
 
I’ll sing ya…
Solo Performance
2 hours
Dublin Live Art Festival
Casino in Marino, Dublin
 
Out in, Breathing my Mother, in out
Group Performance
2 hours
Women for Women international,
Bonhams, London
 
I’ll Sing You a Song from Around the Town,
Group Performances
Five hours a day, 5 days a week for 6 weeks.
RHA, Dublin
 
Run to the Rock
Group Performance
52 minutes
The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

2014

From thirteen to one
Solo Performance
2 hours
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
 
I’ll sing you a song from around the town,
Group Performance
6 hours
Live Collision Festival,
The Project Arts Centre, Dublin
 
You Told Me to Wash and Clean My Ears
Group Performance
52 minutes
The Project Arts Centre, Fringe Festival, Dublin
 
Smoking in Bolero
Group Performance
16 minutes
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
 
The Chocolate Performance-Re-performed
Solo Performance
6 hours
The Naughton Gallery, Queens, Belfast
 
Oh Chocolate
Solo Performance
2 hours
National Museum of Ireland, Collns Barracks, Dublin