Amanda Coogan - Performance artist

Yellow, an ArtFilm
by Paddy Cahill and Amanda Coogan

will premier at the Dublin International Film Festival 
18th February 2012
Lighthouse 4
from 2pm - 6pm, the audience are invited to come and go.
www.JDIFF.com

Hands On, RTE 1, Sunday 4th December 2011
Children of Deaf Adults and the Visual ArtsPerformance Artist Amanda Coogan, painter Fergal Dunne and theatre actor Shane O'Reilly all have something in common: they are CODAs, or Children of Deaf Adults. They grew up in households where communication was visual, with Irish Sign Language as their families' first language - a language of the body, hands and facial expression. This week Hands On asks if their upbringing in this visual environment influenced their desire to become involved in the visual arts.
Amanda Coogan has produced many works that involve or reference Deaf culture or use Irish Sign Language, including the piece The Deaf Opera, an Irish Sign Language interpretation of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, involving the Dublin Deaf Drama Group.http://www.rte.ie/tv/handson/


Spit Spit, Scrub Scrub
What they have said about Spit Spit, Scrub Scrub after 73 hours of Live Performance:
'thats disgusting"  - the Artist's Mum, 
"what have you done to my beautiful costume" - the Artist's Dad, 
"the piece is like night and day from September 5th to 30th October, Live performance is a process art made in front of and with the audience" - the Artist
With much thanks to the team of co-performers, Ann Maria Healy, Viven Pyroth, Ciara Mc Keon and Sinead Corcoran who developed the work and lived and loved it for two months.