Category: Body of WORK of Body
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Slack
On research trip to Yinchuan, China, with Bbeyond [performance art collective] in October 2024 I came upon and unfamiliar and unexpected scene. At the 108 Pagodas, tourist site, I sat to rest and noticed rabbits in a cage nearby. I wrote a short poem: two fat bunnieson a swing they don’t knowthat they live at…
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Birch Besom: A Bridge Between Times
A Bridge Between Times is not merely an exhibition; it is a living archive, a whispered conversation between the past, present, and future of Fort Dunree.
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circles & paradox – frithchosúlacht
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…
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We Should Not March to the Beat of the Same Drum
October 2025 ‘We Should Not March To The Beat of The Same Drum’ is a performance by Rebecca Strain Performance in CCA’s Project Space as part of the Bounce Festival.Drawing on Homi Bhabha’s notion of the ‘third space’—where cultural meaning is negotiated rather than fixed—this live performance explores the tensions between heritage and innovation, collective…
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hacked snacks
Round and round we go. The moment of meeting, the parting begins. I cannot find word i nGaeilge for paradox other than paradasca yet I can’t see for looking síor is not siar which means backwards síoraíocht is an eternity síor is perpetual but not paradoxical surely the notion of paradox existed on the island…
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As Far As I Can See
Beforehand In 2024 I was gifted a sculpture by artist Christian Skagen for potential use in my performance. Every week at the Bbdb performances I observed, played with, balanced, tugged at and imitated the sculpture to understand it and know it better. In October I was invited to Yinchuan, China by Bbeyond as part of…
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I’m not lying
Photography by Martha McCulloch This performance was part of Common Ground for Belfast Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival 2024. A bed was taken on a bus from Buncrana to Belfast by a young girl travelling alone. Some tried to help her, others just stared at he struggle. There are less an less safe spaces for her…
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I DID NOTHING
In 2024 I was commissioned by Bbeyond to make two new pieces of work. The first was to be performed as part of Belfast International Performance Art Festival in March. In January of that year I caught a strange virus where I had a high fever and an unexplained rash like burning all over my…
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Confinement V
at Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Doire~Derry~Londonderry curated by Peter O’Doherty, Northern Lights Project photographed by Martha McCulloch in support of Lou Barnell I have carried this work with me for decades. It began as a sculpture using split-ply braiding, a technique from northwestern India. It was then coated in paper pulp and formed into a conical…
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Barriers As Support for Collapsible Humans
At grüntaler9, Berlin, PODO Festival 2023, Live performance (60 minutes) with audio by Drew Cox, photography by Anja Ibsch