Once More, @ The Lyric Theatre, Belfast
for SARC, Distributed Listening Project
June 2016.
A live performance in 8 parts ignites from the text of Shakespeare's Once More onto the Breach, Dear Friends, speech. It was fragmented and re-contextualised using loops, repetition and fragmentation. Audiences went on a 'tour' of the Lyric theatre, exploring the back corners of the theatre, where I had installed live performances, and encountering nuggets of sound and stunning visuals. The free-flowing structure of the performance invited audiences to create individual narratives as they travelled around the building exploring the performances and creating an experience. The performances, as isolated individual works came together via SARC's distributed listening app, inviting audience sand performers alike to be in the moment of their installation while also listening hard to the other performance works simultaneously occupying the building.
Click Here for a link to the video documentation of the work.
for SARC, Distributed Listening Project
June 2016.
A live performance in 8 parts ignites from the text of Shakespeare's Once More onto the Breach, Dear Friends, speech. It was fragmented and re-contextualised using loops, repetition and fragmentation. Audiences went on a 'tour' of the Lyric theatre, exploring the back corners of the theatre, where I had installed live performances, and encountering nuggets of sound and stunning visuals. The free-flowing structure of the performance invited audiences to create individual narratives as they travelled around the building exploring the performances and creating an experience. The performances, as isolated individual works came together via SARC's distributed listening app, inviting audience sand performers alike to be in the moment of their installation while also listening hard to the other performance works simultaneously occupying the building.
Click Here for a link to the video documentation of the work.
Run to the Rock - A mediation on Shakespeare via the Robbin Island Bible.
October 2016 - MAC, Belfast
Run to the Rock is a new multi-media work created by critically acclaimed visual and performance artist Amanda Coogan, in collaboration with Deaf communities in Northern Ireland and South Africa. It is a mediation on Shakespeare inspired by the Robben Island Bible, a copy of the ‘Complete Works of William Shakespeare’ which was smuggled among, and annotated by, the single cell prisoners of the South African prison during the period of Nelson Mandela’s incarceration. Using a combination of sign language, performance, digital sound and moving image streaming, Run to the Rock explored key themes in Shakespeare’s texts opening up their continuing political relevance and accessibility for global audiences.
Co-commissioned by the British Council and Belfast International Arts Festival as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016.
Generously informed by collaborators Educape and Jazz Hands, based in South Africa.
October 2016 - MAC, Belfast
Run to the Rock is a new multi-media work created by critically acclaimed visual and performance artist Amanda Coogan, in collaboration with Deaf communities in Northern Ireland and South Africa. It is a mediation on Shakespeare inspired by the Robben Island Bible, a copy of the ‘Complete Works of William Shakespeare’ which was smuggled among, and annotated by, the single cell prisoners of the South African prison during the period of Nelson Mandela’s incarceration. Using a combination of sign language, performance, digital sound and moving image streaming, Run to the Rock explored key themes in Shakespeare’s texts opening up their continuing political relevance and accessibility for global audiences.
Co-commissioned by the British Council and Belfast International Arts Festival as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016.
Generously informed by collaborators Educape and Jazz Hands, based in South Africa.
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The Passing-Reperformed,
live durational performance Niemeyer Centre, Aviles 2016 photography by Maximo Alaez |
You Told Me To Wash And Clean My Ears 2014
A startlingly original collaborative project between the dynamic contemporary performance artist Amanda Coogan and the political zeal of Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, this live performance featured 40 Deaf performers aged 18-80.@ Project Arts Centre, for the Dublin Fringe Festival.A Political Awakening by the Deaf community. The first act of political awakening for the Irish Deaf Community may have been the death of Eamon McDevitt at the height of the Troubles in 1972. His life and tragic death have been a powerful inspiration to many, and his legacy informs this production on every level. Mc Devitt , an ISL user, was educated in the Deaf Boys school in Dublin, and was shot dead by the British Army. The national Deaf community were appalled and outraged, and at a time when Deaf people were hidden and marginalised in Irish society, the community came together to protest against Mc Devitt’s killing. In August 1972 the Deaf community marched on the British embassy in Dublin to hand in a letter of protest, just months before Bloody Sunday, and the same embassy was burnt down.
A startlingly original collaborative project between the dynamic contemporary performance artist Amanda Coogan and the political zeal of Dublin Theatre of the Deaf, this live performance featured 40 Deaf performers aged 18-80.@ Project Arts Centre, for the Dublin Fringe Festival.A Political Awakening by the Deaf community. The first act of political awakening for the Irish Deaf Community may have been the death of Eamon McDevitt at the height of the Troubles in 1972. His life and tragic death have been a powerful inspiration to many, and his legacy informs this production on every level. Mc Devitt , an ISL user, was educated in the Deaf Boys school in Dublin, and was shot dead by the British Army. The national Deaf community were appalled and outraged, and at a time when Deaf people were hidden and marginalised in Irish society, the community came together to protest against Mc Devitt’s killing. In August 1972 the Deaf community marched on the British embassy in Dublin to hand in a letter of protest, just months before Bloody Sunday, and the same embassy was burnt down.
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Silent Dinner,
a collaboration with Shannon Cochrane and FADO Performance Art Centre, for the PROGRESS International Festival, Toronto, 2015 |
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13 WOMEN A 12 hour live performance 20th September 2013 The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland commissioned as part of Anu Production's 'Thirteen. |
Time, Time, Time
A series of live Performances for Compass, Beacon Art Projects October - November 2012 Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK |
Bubble up in Blue
A series of 8 hour live performances in ]Performance Space[ London - February 2012 The Void, Derry - February 2012 The LAB, Dublin - March 2012 Queens University, Belfast - May 2012 |
Spit Spit, Scrub Scrub
A series of live performances for Dublin Contemporary September - Ocotber 2011 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin developed with performers Ciara Mc Keon and Sinead Corcoran |
Curated projects - click here for links