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In Dialogue With The UnKnown

Some photos from the install stage of our group show, In Dialogue With The Unknown, opening today in a gallery called Die Linz, Austria. Feeling weirdly discombobulated re watching remotely as Kirsty installed the show. Then tonight was our opening, Kirsty had asked would we the other artists be 'there' on zoom, while she gave her speech, so as to give moral support. We are [...]

2020-10-05T20:55:16+00:00October 5th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

E&B: making notes of some notes I took last Friday

Last Friday I had a skype meet with Moran, and we talked about the upcoming group show she is curating for Dec/Jan in glór. I was a bit discombobulated as a lot of my head space was taken up with the following days performance at Revision Festival but it was rally good to talk and helped steer my thought process in a useful (to me) [...]

2020-10-01T16:36:01+00:00October 1st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

An essential contribution: post Re-Vision performance thoughts

I had a full day of experiences yesterday- driving to Belfast from my parents house in Dublin, getting utterly lost and stressed in city centre traffic, finding the gallery, Catalyst arts, watching 4 hours of very different performances before it was my turn, getting through my own performance piece, negotiating traffic out of Belfast again and then settling into the 4.5 hour drive back to [...]

2020-09-27T17:10:28+00:00September 27th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

ongoing ideas to execute

I am writing, to remind myself, of the art actions I want to get made. I put these into my phone in a compiled note to make sure I don't forget them. The ones that resonate at present are two, that would A: work as durational pieces that would develop over time, weeks probably, and come to a natural end. B: are to do with [...]

2020-09-23T08:49:37+00:00September 23rd, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

WTF Trial

I got to trial a version of Working Through Feelings over the weekend, on Saturday morning. I have wasted the last hour this morning trying to upload a video I edited last night of the performance. Fucks sake! I just tried deleting loads of stuff off my phone (after finally managing to get Airdrop to work again) to make enough space to save the video [...]

2020-09-21T10:18:04+00:00September 21st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

E&B: strong women- research

Made some drawings thinking about how strength is SEEN and how its expressed in women. Some people who symbolise strength. This is just me visualizing my thoughts right now.. The first image is Joan Of Arc, as illustrated in a propaganda poster from WW1, to inspire US Women to buy food stamps apparently. Interesting that they used a teenage girl who was burned at the [...]

2020-09-18T09:54:33+00:00September 18th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

one obsession for another

Thinking about the use of strength. sat here in the studio with strong, beginning of period period pains, shoulders and body achey from this morning's training. I'm interested in how necessary that feeling, physical tiredness and muscular ache, equals redemptive qualities, a box to tick that allows the mind to calm and clear, and focus on other stuff. My mind gnaws and worries on the [...]

2020-09-18T08:55:08+00:00September 18th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Getting Strong. Again

I say 'Again' as I operate in this perpetual belief that I used to be stronger than I am now. Given that this is true, as I used to spend significantly more time lifting weights and kettlebell training (as I competed in kettlebell sport) than I do now. I also used to teach up to 7/8 classes a day, each of which operated as a [...]

2020-09-08T09:35:19+00:00September 8th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

ReSet

OK. Kids went to school this morning. First time in 6 months I've been on my own in house. Hard to digest. I want to drink coffee and look at clothes websites. HOWEVER. Thinking about last 5 tasks for INTBR series. First- to review what tasks Ive already done: Tasks 1-5: Strength training tasks used as a tool to maintain strength and to manage anxiety. . Site: [...]

2020-09-01T10:51:18+00:00September 1st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|
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