Lisa Weldon
"The Earth is blue like an orange"
By attempting to obscure the borders of social norms, using everyday objects such as oranges and a kitchen table in an unconventional way, I am making an ambitious disquisition into the relationship between the world and conscious reality and our attempts to represent it. Nothing matter except what you see in it, and when you say the earth is blue like an orange, you see that blue isn't what matters at all.
Natasha Bourke
Cone-Face II
This is the second public outing of Cone-face. The tableau presented has its roots in the aritst's autobiography & phenomenology and evolves in metting the viewers' response. It contemplates aspects of the self and society through themes of dissociation, quarantine, stagnation & change, perception & scrutiny, institutionalisation, anxiety, absurdism, pathos and play. Natasha's work, with its spectral quality, draws on existentialist, absurdist & spiritual philosophies.
Jenny Ahern
Look At Me.
We live in a highly sexualized society where people of all ages are bombarded daily with images of a sexual nature, so much so that this has become the accepted norm, but do we ever stop to ask what the commodification of sex is really saying?
Authentic Presence
presented by The Performance Caravan.
Lynn-Marie Dennehy
Person Object Display
An object meaning is easily denuded or distorted so the display of objects is therefore futile. The act of display itslef becomes significant: the action of display becomes the cherished entity, rendering the object obsolete.
Eilís Collins
This performance deals with the idea of being a shell of a person. Walking through a space, the performer views herself as having little to no impact on the enviroment with thte exception of the paper trail left behind
Aine Kelly
Study of Body and Stone
"My work is an exploration of the body space. Through performative means I often question is the body a shell, a mere tool for the mind or is it a symbiotic relationship? I focus on body tension, movement, control and lack thereof. This piece is inspired by the words of Jean-Paul Sartre: 'I exist as my body. My body is action and i live it as such.' With an interest in phenomenology, I'd like to bring each viewer to question how different my experience of the stone may be from yours."