Performance live: MART at the Galway Arts Festival 24-26 July 09

I will be performing a new, as yet untitled piece, as part of
MART's Open Door Policy at the Galway Arts Festival. Taking place on the evenings of 24,25 and 26 July in Silkes Shopfront, Sea Road, Galway (9pm approx).



This new work continues the transition of my practice from studio to live performance, and in this instance substitutes the display window for the camera as the object of the narcissist's attention. The desire to be looked at pushes the female body from traditional feminine object to the abject, contrasting these states as modalities of the spectacle. This begins to question modern forms of narcissistic display whilst still indulging the female subject's desire to razzle dazzle 'em.

Naughty Boy Live at SHUNT

You Are a Very Naughty Boy! LIVE performed June 2009 at SHUNT as part of an exhibition by MART platform for New Media, Performance and Installation artists.




This work transposed my performance practice from the the safety of the studio and an intimate relationship with the camera, to the potent uncertainty of the live moment. Thus the dialogue with an imagined viewer becomes a face-to face encounter with a live audience who become implicated in the performance through the live projection of the performance context which becomes mise-en-scene.



In this slightly ludicrous yet sultry performance, a vamp-like female in stockings and stilettos plays a game of punishing the male viewer for his desiring gaze. Initially seductive, her performance escalates into a hysteria that is simultaneously threatening and humorous. The promise of seductive performance descends into a hysteria that is both threatening and humorous.

Contrasting the live with the mediated, the work raises questions around the ethics of spectatorship and representation of the erotic female body. In particular the narcissistic motivation of the performer in her self-objectification, and the role of the viewer as both voyeur and image, trouble comfortable viewing.

Naughty Boy live at SHUNT in association with MART

I will be performing a LIVE version of my video piece You Are a Very Naughty Boy! at SHUNT on Wed 24th June until Sat 28th. The performance will take place in conjunction with a live feed through a projector, contrasting the live with the mediated. Beyond the safety of the studio and an intimate relationship with the camera, I hope that the performance will become a dialogue with the audience extending my exploration of the feminine as spectacle. Watch this space!


The SHUNT lounge is a members' bar deep in the tunnels under London Bridge Station, hosting performance, music, film, installation and a bar that is open late. Many of these events will be in the early stages of development and presented for the first time.

SHUNT
20 Stainer St
(entrance under London Bridge station)
SE1 9LR
Entry: £5 Weds & Thurs/£10 Fri & Sat
come early to avoid queues
Map

The performance is part of a group show by MART a collective based across Ireland and the UK, that provides a platform for New Media, Performance and Installation artists.







Artists and work include:

LISA MARIE JOHNSON - The Parameters of the Gothic - PERFORMANCE
KATHERINE NOLAN - You Are a Very Naughty Boy LIVE- PERFORMANCE
MATTHEW NEVIN - The Expansion Effect - INSTALLATION
CIARA SCANLAN - The Narcissus dinner party - INSTALLATION / VIDEO
IVAN TWOHIG - Satellites of the Abstract Referential - INSTALLATION
ADAM GIBNEY – INSTALLATION / VIDEO
JOAN HEALY – Becoming a Franz West - INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE
NATALIE ZERVOU - INSTALLATION

La Cat Salon Friday 19th June 2009

My video You Are a Very Naughty Boy will be screened in the La Cat Salon at
The Back Loft this Friday 19th June. beginning at 8pm there is an eclectic mix of video, performance and music.

The line up:
Oil & Blood (old style acoustic American music)
Sean Dunne (theatrical performance)
Victor Feldman (voice performance)
Coco La Bouche (comedy sketch)
Katherine Nolan (video)
"Rooflanders" by Sven Werner (short film)
"Tango in D Minor" by maurizio usai (short film)
VIDEO ART in the alcove by:
Laura O'Connor
Daryl Slein
Seamus Bradley - 'Steady State No. 1'


9th 8pm
Entry €8/€5
The Back loft
La Catedral studios
7-11 St. Augustine Street,
Dublin
Map

Live at the Apollo

My work is being shown in The Apollo in Herne Hill. A group of local creatives have taken over the abandoned video store for a month of events showcasing art, film, music and performance provided by local talent and high profile artists.The local community has pulled together to support the venture.

My video work will be shown along side an eclectic mix of creative work, its position under the counter a tongue-in-cheek framing of its erotic nature as 'elicit'.

The story of the creation of the project has been published on-line by
Time Out .


The Apollo ,
19 Norwood Rd,
London SE24.
Opening 4th June 2009, 6pm
Runs until 4th July

FORTHCOMING: Performance at SHUNT

In association with MART I will be performing/showing new work in SHUNT London on Wed 24th -27th June 2009.

SIMULTAN05 [Trans:position]

You Are a Very Naughty Boy! (2007) is also currently being shown as part of SIMULTAN05 [Trans:position] in Athens, Greece.

The SIMULTAN Festival is an annual festival for video, media art, experimental electronic music and a/v projects.

The festival wishes to sustain and to stimulate the creative ways of the most modern visions of perceiving and recording the cultural realities in contemporary art. It presents the current processes and the way in which technology and society give rise to new forms of artistic expression by using the new media.

Based on a different theme every year, the festival presents video art projections, live performances, installations, lectures.

This year’s edition runs under the theme Trans:position and will take place on 21-23 May, 2009, in Timisoara, Romania.


SIMULTAN05 | video



As in the previous years, the festival will present the most challenging and innovative video art works submitted for the competition program by artists from all around the world.More than 100 video works will be screened in the festival, which also includes hosted selections. Click here for the programme

SIMULTAN05 | music & sound



On the 22nd and 23rd, in the evenings, at the Synagogue will take place live concerts andsound performances.

Bernhard Gál [At]
eRikm [Fr]
Robert Piotrowicz [Pl]
Makunouchi Bento [Ro]
Tetsuya Hori [Jp/De]
Manami N [Jp/De]


For programme information visit www.simultan.org

OPA 0.2 Second International Festival (On Performance Art)

15th-30th May 2009
Athens, Greece.

My video work You Are a Very Naughty Boy! (2007) will be shown in OPA 0.2 in Athens, Greece. It will screened daily daily at BIOS from 20-24 Μay in the section "Documented performances on Postproduction"


Following its successful first edition in March 2007, ΟPA festival (on performance art) is being established as a yearly event. The raising interest for the art of performance, the participation of young artists as well as historical figures of performance and the public and private institution’s, and media support have created a meeting point for the art of performance in our country and internationally. For two consequent weeks, artists and audience meet the most live art
form.

Re-Think/ Re-use/ Re-make: Propositions and Possibilities on contemporary performance art. Based on Nicolas Bourriaud’s (French curator and theorist) book Post-Production

‘Since the early nineties, an even increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of preexisting works; more and more artists interpret, reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products. The material they manipulate is no longer primary. It is no longer a matter of elaborating a form on the basis of a raw material but working with objects that are already in circulation on the cultural market, which is to say, objects already informed by other objects. Notions of originality (being at the origin of) and even of creation (making something from nothing) are slowly blurred in this new cultural landscape’ (Bourriaud, 2005:7).

“Post-production” is a technical term from the audiovisual vocabulary that is used in television, film and video. It refers to a line of processes in recorded material: montage, use of other audiovisual materials, subtitling, voice-overs and special effects. In a line of activities connected with service provider industry and recycling, post- production belongs in a tertiary sector, contrary to the industrial or rural sector that produces primary material.

Knowing Through Making

Knowing through Making:
Practice-based doctoral exhibition and conference

University for the Creative Arts at Epsom
10th – 22nd October 2008

Knowing through Making will reflect upon the vibrant student research culture at the University for the Creative Arts through an exhibition and conference. The conference and exhibition aim to create a dialogue between individual research projects and their methodological approaches, in order to critically reflect upon practice led scholarship in the visual arts.

The opening of Knowing through Making will be marked by keynote speaker Dr Lucy Soutter from the London College of Communication, University of Arts London. Her recent publications include, Enigmatic Spectacle: Key Strategies in Contemporary Staged Photography, Role Models.




Conference 10th Oct 12pm – 5.45 Lecture Theatre Epsom
Followed by Private View at 6pm at The Gallery at Epsom
Exhibition runs until 22nd Oct


Spaces at the conference are limited so booking is essential.
Please contact: Mary O’Hagan at the Research Office.

mohagan@ucreative.ac.uk

You Are a Very Naughty Boy! (2007)

My New video 'You Are a Very Naughty Boy!' (2007) created for Transcabaret can be viewed here

Dark smoky eyes stare at the camera and she insists to the viewer “You are a very naughty boy”. In this slightly ludicrous yet sultry performance, a dominating female solicits male masochistic pleasure: a parody of simplistic reversals of the traditional viewing scenario of the active male look and sexualized, passive female. The assertive ‘punishing’ stamp of the female lifts the shutter revealing the female object in the spotlight. For an instant, the male is indulged with a peepshow of black stockings and frills, before the shutter snaps abruptly down. Initially seductive, her performance escalates into a hysteria that is simultaneously threatening and humorous.

The work relies on the simulation of a photographic apparatus via the video camera. Thus playing with the nature of the screen, meshing the ‘making’ space with the ‘viewing’ space of the visual artwork. This simulates a ‘live’ performance whilst lending the female control of her image through the camera apparatus. You Are a Very Naughty Boy!evokes voyeuristic pleasures of the cinema and the burlesque performance and yet intervening in familiar codes of spectatorship as the screen of projection intermittently becomes a violent shutter to the peep show.

Showroom 3: Trans-Cabaret

Showroom 3: Trans-cabaret a live art and performance
event transgressing notions of cabaret, variety, and burlesque.Trans-cabaret features live art, performance, video,
burlesque, one toone intimate exchanges, and interventions by featured
artists:

Annette FosterTransgression: Transgressa

Tom MarshmanFinding My Inner Cowboy

Jiva Parthipan Al Queda Ballet

Lazlo Pearlman Le Grande Bouffe

Benjamin Mitchell "Daddy Loves His Job (Don't WorryPrincess)" AKA "Gay Man's Frug"

Katherine Nolan a live art and performance "You are a very naughty boy!" (2007)

Rachel Parry Baba Yaga's Bastard child

Sam Rose Between One and Another: Untitled (Work InProgress)

With Special Guests.......
The Deville Dolls Burlesque Troupewho will behostesses throughout theevening, as well as making a special guestperformance.

DJ Lord Ivor Hardshafte Gramophonic/ Jukebox Masterwill be playing the finest tunes from the 1920's-1950's throughout the
evening.

And added extra's......
Look out for...... Chocolate cigarette hostesses.
Let your hair down and dance into the early hours withTrans-cabaret 'club' 12:00- 2:00 a.m.

Audiences are encouraged to dress to impress invintage, burlesque, ordrag !

For further information go to
www.myspace.com/transcabaret

Visual Deflections

In collaboration with artist colleague, I have put out a call for submissions. Visual Deflections is a showcasing opportunity for new and emerging artists working in film/video/moving image. The project aims to stage screening(s) to provide an opportunity to engage with contemporary artists working with the moving image

Work will be selected around the idea of Visual Deflections, which infers the disruption of a straightforward linear story through distortions of the time, movement and space of the film/video. The concept may also suggest an interruption of the gaze where desires and identifications are intrusively reflected back to the viewer.

Sugar Lips (2007)

Angela Carter Symposium

I spoke at an Angela Carter Symposium in University of Exeter before christmas. It was a great conference, there was real enthusiam for the subject and the atmosphere was relaxed enough that people felt comfortable to speak. Both of which made for lively discussion.

I screened the video piece, I get it 5 times a day and discussed in it in the context of the literary construction of the gaze in Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber'. There were some very interesting comments on the work. Paricularly interesting to screen the work to an entirely female, and I assume feminist audience.

Charlotte Croft commented that she felt uncomfortable, due to the disorientating effect of the mirror - before even consdiering gender issues. (As a film maker, she was able to detect this)There was also comments that an uncomfortable feeling was evoked because the viewer knew the kind of (controlling? erotic? masculinsed?) gaze that they were subejcting me to. (Informed by the feminist knowledge of that particular audience).

I get it 5 Times a Day

I get it 5 times a day is a homoursly ironic performance of a clichéd seduction. The viewer is directly addressed with playful eye contact and flirtatious body language, such that they can’t help but believe this flattery is for them. Suddenly they become implicated within the frame of image as the luscious red fruit is dangled in front of them. The nature of the gaze becomes unstable as the screen seems to flicker between a translucent and reflective surface The distortion of the pictorial space has a disorientating effect, so that the erotic pleasure offered to the viewer is challenged by the frustration of the urge to decipher the viewing apparatus. The uncomfortable pleasures of I get it 5 times a day are an inquiry into self-gratification in the image, in an increasingly mediated culture.

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