REDRESS
Redress
a series of performance works exploring current social and political inequities and injustice.
Redress State
performed at Live@8 Occupy Space, Limerick
5th May 2011
Redress 2010
performed at Right Here Right Now Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
4th November 2010
video installation screened at at Live@8 Occupy Space, Limerick
5th May 2011
Special Thanks to
Curators Amanda Coogan & Dominic Thorpe (Right Here Right Now)
Maeve Mulrennan, Vivienne Dick (video) and Declan Sheridan (assistance &
photography)
Redress State is a two hour durational performance. I begin outside the venue, smartly dressed, sitting on the street with a paper coffee cup filled with cent coins in my hands and a cardboard sing on the pavement beside me reading "Please Change". After one hour, I walk inside, taking a new cardboard sign from my handbag (decorated with € signs) which reads "In-Vest-Ment". I attempt to cross the room while pouring the cent coins down the front of my suit, repeatedly picking up spilt coins and "re-investing" them into my suit. In an empty corner, I place a third sign reading "Chicken Feed" and pile moneybags in lines on the floor. I empty the moneybags of small golden sea-shells, raise my suit above my head and crush the shells underfoot for one hour until they are powder. I transform from a woman "on the verge", begging on the street to one feeding herself with cash to a headless grotesque "Laurie Simmons" creature, half woman/half suit in a manic act of destruction. The crushed shells become organic chicken feed after the performance.
Part 1
is about wanting change, small change, loose change
status, greed, avarice, mercenary desire, begging, supplication
Part 2
is about hoarding, gambling money, capital in-vest-ment, savings and how currency is always flowing and cannot be possessed
Part 3
is about the transformation of wealth into treasure,
the monetizing of natural resources (naturally beautiful things)
and how moneybags of crushed shells become chickenfeed
Redress 2010 is a 4 hour durational performance, locked into a jail cell and viewed by the audience through the spyhole. I dress and redress myself with a garment that will not fit properly. Redress 2010 references the work of Eadweard Muybridge, one of the first producers of motion sequence photography. In his elegant work “Woman Dressing” 1884 the subject attempts to dress and undress in front of a measuring grid. In Redress 2010, I struggle with a similar, unfitting dress so that my form becomes a live sculptural image of contorted body and dress merged together.
Redress 2010 is about the problematics of the Residential Institutions Redress Board, charged with compensating those who had suffered physical, sexual and emotional abuse in childcare institutions subject to State regulation in Ireland. Those who receive ‘redress’ compensation must adhere to a confidentiality clause that bans them from speaking publicly about their experience. This injustice emerged in Ireland 2010.
Redress 2010 video installation is a video work made by film maker Vivienne Dick for my live performance. Assistance and photography by Declan Sheridan.
a series of performance works exploring current social and political inequities and injustice.
Redress State
performed at Live@8 Occupy Space, Limerick
5th May 2011
Redress 2010
performed at Right Here Right Now Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
4th November 2010
video installation screened at at Live@8 Occupy Space, Limerick
5th May 2011
Special Thanks to
Curators Amanda Coogan & Dominic Thorpe (Right Here Right Now)
Maeve Mulrennan, Vivienne Dick (video) and Declan Sheridan (assistance &
photography)
Redress State is a two hour durational performance. I begin outside the venue, smartly dressed, sitting on the street with a paper coffee cup filled with cent coins in my hands and a cardboard sing on the pavement beside me reading "Please Change". After one hour, I walk inside, taking a new cardboard sign from my handbag (decorated with € signs) which reads "In-Vest-Ment". I attempt to cross the room while pouring the cent coins down the front of my suit, repeatedly picking up spilt coins and "re-investing" them into my suit. In an empty corner, I place a third sign reading "Chicken Feed" and pile moneybags in lines on the floor. I empty the moneybags of small golden sea-shells, raise my suit above my head and crush the shells underfoot for one hour until they are powder. I transform from a woman "on the verge", begging on the street to one feeding herself with cash to a headless grotesque "Laurie Simmons" creature, half woman/half suit in a manic act of destruction. The crushed shells become organic chicken feed after the performance.
Part 1
is about wanting change, small change, loose change
status, greed, avarice, mercenary desire, begging, supplication
Part 2
is about hoarding, gambling money, capital in-vest-ment, savings and how currency is always flowing and cannot be possessed
Part 3
is about the transformation of wealth into treasure,
the monetizing of natural resources (naturally beautiful things)
and how moneybags of crushed shells become chickenfeed
Redress 2010 is a 4 hour durational performance, locked into a jail cell and viewed by the audience through the spyhole. I dress and redress myself with a garment that will not fit properly. Redress 2010 references the work of Eadweard Muybridge, one of the first producers of motion sequence photography. In his elegant work “Woman Dressing” 1884 the subject attempts to dress and undress in front of a measuring grid. In Redress 2010, I struggle with a similar, unfitting dress so that my form becomes a live sculptural image of contorted body and dress merged together.
Redress 2010 is about the problematics of the Residential Institutions Redress Board, charged with compensating those who had suffered physical, sexual and emotional abuse in childcare institutions subject to State regulation in Ireland. Those who receive ‘redress’ compensation must adhere to a confidentiality clause that bans them from speaking publicly about their experience. This injustice emerged in Ireland 2010.
Redress 2010 video installation is a video work made by film maker Vivienne Dick for my live performance. Assistance and photography by Declan Sheridan.
