Níl fhios agam fosta ach, rinne mé ten public performances attempting physical paradox. The restriction or boundary on the work initially felt quite cold and impersonal, ach tar éis am a caitheamh leis, but I started to lean into this discomfort, ag fanacht le, beith ann ar feadh uair a chloig, and it led me to unexpected places and states of being.
Throughout the time of the project I had many opportunities to perform a one-to-one performance whispering na focail ‘I’m screaming’ i gcluas na ndaoine. These private performances were a source of connection and amusement ach níor rinne mé líníocht faoi.
The physical attempts, a glac mé phictúir ag an am, were documented through drawings from the perspective of the artist and not the viewer.
Is é an rud sin for many years, I have been interested in exploring the different ways the artist and the audience perceive a live artwork. For this project I wanted to explore the experience of live art through drawing, dá réir sin. I made three drawings of what I experienced in each of the attempts.
The nature of performance – a live action, where the audience sees the artist, and the artist sees the audience – inherently inhabits dual perspectives. It is not usual that the artist’s view of what is happening is shared. In other art-forms solely presents the artists perspective. Sin é and gceist a bhí agam, how can I show what I am experiencing whilst you are looking at me?
These thirty drawings rinne mé iarracht a document the artist’s experience of being looked at, while creating the artwork and simultaneously being the artwork. This gives the viewer another perspective to consider thereby generating an endless feedback loop ag breathnú air; or a paradox.
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