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.
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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 |
2016Run 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 |
2015Silent 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 |
2014From 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 |