IN CONVERSATION & IN ARGUMENT (WITH THE SEA)
Solo Performance
Diaskari (Green) Beach, Maykri Gialos, Lasithi Region, Crete. 3.38 minutes video performance, July 2017.
Later exhibited at: October 2017: Glór Gallery, Ennis for Haclyon Days & June 2018: 11th Annual Members Exhibtion, 126 Artist-Led Gallery Galway.
Site-based performance piece, where 2 seperate improvisational dance-based movements were created. Filmed on a remote beach devoid of other personal interaction. Waves alone provide a rhythm for the performer to converse with, and rebel against.
Link to video work available by request.
Solo Performance
Diaskari (Green) Beach, Maykri Gialos, Lasithi Region, Crete. 3.38 minutes video performance, July 2017.
Later exhibited at: October 2017: Glór Gallery, Ennis for Haclyon Days & June 2018: 11th Annual Members Exhibtion, 126 Artist-Led Gallery Galway.
Site-based performance piece, where 2 seperate improvisational dance-based movements were created. Filmed on a remote beach devoid of other personal interaction. Waves alone provide a rhythm for the performer to converse with, and rebel against.
Link to video work available by request.
TILE ROOF / PINK ROOM DANCE
Solo Performance
Ruins rooftop in the Village of Agios Ioannis, Ierapetra, Crete, 2x 3 minute performances, June 2017.
Pink walled ruin in the Village of Agios Ioannis, Ierapetra, Crete, 4minute Video Performance, June 2017.
Performances inspired by props found in the desolated ruins of Agios Ioannis village, seeking a connection with the untold social histories of this abandonment. Choreographed by very personal attachment to place, the performances incorporated steps common to both traditional Irish dance and Cretan Epirus dance. The first is a slow and silent walk performed on 5 kitchen tiles, as recovered from an abandoned kitchen ruin.
The second is an improvisational dance inspired by the isolation of an abandoned bedroom against the stark personality of pink bedroom walls.
Link to video works available by request.
Ruins rooftop in the Village of Agios Ioannis, Ierapetra, Crete, 2x 3 minute performances, June 2017.
Pink walled ruin in the Village of Agios Ioannis, Ierapetra, Crete, 4minute Video Performance, June 2017.
Performances inspired by props found in the desolated ruins of Agios Ioannis village, seeking a connection with the untold social histories of this abandonment. Choreographed by very personal attachment to place, the performances incorporated steps common to both traditional Irish dance and Cretan Epirus dance. The first is a slow and silent walk performed on 5 kitchen tiles, as recovered from an abandoned kitchen ruin.
The second is an improvisational dance inspired by the isolation of an abandoned bedroom against the stark personality of pink bedroom walls.
Link to video works available by request.
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THE SWITCH
Collaborative Performance Recreated for 'ON' LSAD 2015 Graduate Show Limerick School of Art and Design June 7th- 14th, 2015 Performers: Sara Dowling & Philip Desmond The Switch was a choreographed performance of common social turn on and offs. Seven actions are performed by two performers in sequence and in reaction to the others approval. Each player has a handheld Switch which narrates the work at synchronised intervals, to recreate playful and intended clichés of stereotypical seduction. See video here. |
I WANT THIS
Collaborative Performance
Limerick School of Art & Design, 40 minutes approx, October 2014.
Performers: Sara Dowling & Naomhan McKeon Joyce
Video Photographer: Kieran Grace
Study of sins Lust vs. Pride as a modern day application. This non-verbal performance was a play on dominance, submission and conflict - directed by controlled choreography, and physical attachment. Hand-stitching and handwriting were simultaneously acted out by both performers until totally intertwined, at which point the female figure cut free each stitch, leaving the male performer alone on the mirror around which each step was confined.
Collaborative Performance
Limerick School of Art & Design, 40 minutes approx, October 2014.
Performers: Sara Dowling & Naomhan McKeon Joyce
Video Photographer: Kieran Grace
Study of sins Lust vs. Pride as a modern day application. This non-verbal performance was a play on dominance, submission and conflict - directed by controlled choreography, and physical attachment. Hand-stitching and handwriting were simultaneously acted out by both performers until totally intertwined, at which point the female figure cut free each stitch, leaving the male performer alone on the mirror around which each step was confined.
THE PAPER DRESS PERFORMANCE
Solo Performance
Limerick School of Art & Design, 3hours durational piece, September 2014.
Elements: A spool of invisible thread, heavy duty wire steel needle, pair of scissors, 20 black markers, white paper gown, single female model.
Solo female figurative performance piece (mute) , in handmade paper gown with black markers attached by invisible thread. Public were gesturally invited to inscribe messages onto the gown and figures body, as a canvas for reflection, submission and alternative constructing of concept. Model was non-interactive throughout, and did not engage in any direct eye contact. She was silently cut out of the gown with scissors, ending the performance.
Inscriptions were later used to form a text-inspired installation.
Solo Performance
Limerick School of Art & Design, 3hours durational piece, September 2014.
Elements: A spool of invisible thread, heavy duty wire steel needle, pair of scissors, 20 black markers, white paper gown, single female model.
Solo female figurative performance piece (mute) , in handmade paper gown with black markers attached by invisible thread. Public were gesturally invited to inscribe messages onto the gown and figures body, as a canvas for reflection, submission and alternative constructing of concept. Model was non-interactive throughout, and did not engage in any direct eye contact. She was silently cut out of the gown with scissors, ending the performance.
Inscriptions were later used to form a text-inspired installation.
