COME WANDER WITH ME
Experimental (Performance)Art Trail
SEPT. 26+27 2015 \\ € 12.00 \\ Clonakilty \\ West Cork
ARTISTS
Brian Mc Swiney inhabits a most curious and complex space in art. Whilst his work resonates most readily with various forms of kinetic sculpture – literally sculpture in motion – it also resists such a simple categorisation; like a wysteria’s roots Brian sends out runners into sensorial reality, with young shoots arising in the most surprising spaces. Brian Mc Swiney’s work can, in many respects, be seen as an aesthetic project of translation between sensorial realities. For example, in one work a laser harmonograph projects musical intervals and shows us the shape of sound. Such inter-aesthetic translation recalls early 20th century experiments in the pursuit of a color-organ, as well as a whole lineage of experimental animators, including the great kinetic sculptor-come-animator, Len Lye (1901-1980). These artist-inventors, in turn had their aesthetic roots in the works of painters, such as Čiurlionis (1875-1911) who was obsessed with finding pictorial equivalents to musical laws through his paintings. Brian Mc Swiney is a part of this lineage of artist-inventors who would chart the spaces between, through forms that are playful, inter-active, immersive and unerringly contemporary.
Brian Mc Swiney
Fi Rooney
http://www.firooney.com
http://cargocollective.com/Fi-Rooney
Fi Rooney is an Irish based Aerialist, Artist and Circus performer who holds a great passion for the Arts, Circus and Theater in Ireland. Fi has trained and performed throughout Ireland, America and Italy as well as studying Sculpture and the Expanded Practice in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. After completing her BA in the Fine Arts Fi is actively working towards training in preparation for auditions to circus school throughout Europe to help develop and further her education in Circus and the Arts. Focusing on performance art and the circus arts, Fi has brought these elements into her recent work, such as "Patience" and "Limitations 1 & 2", concentrating on pushing her body and mentality as a performer when reaching limits. Now, after completing her degree, Fi is working on using her education to help develop upcoming circus performances, collaborations and projects.
Ashling Geary
Having studied at Dublin Institute of Technology / University of Limerick, Ashling is am an artist with a background in architecture, illustration, design and photography recently returning to West Cork. Within the last year, while traveling she has become involved in the world of flow and performing arts. She is interested in exploring the overlap and finding hidden harmonies between the very geometric elements of a defined architectural space, light and their relation to movement and the human body.
Jeanne Mérer
http://mererjeanne.wix.com/jeannem
Jeanne Mérer lives and works in France. The foundation of her work for the past 15 years has been dance and drawing. She has recently embarked on a new creative process, tuning into the cycles of nature and connecting with herbalists as well as performing artists practicing BMC (Body Mind Centering) and Authentic Movement.
Jeanne studied art in Lyon and Paris specialising in graphic design. 6 years of creative research (contemporary and oriental dance, Japanese Butoh, poetic circus, street theatre, Hundertwasser) and practice (facilitating arts festivals and workshops, co-creating and exhibiting with various artists) led her to take a stand as an artist, with her first solo exhibition Papered Bodies, in Dublin.
At that point, something profound shifted and invited her on the very epic journey of an art café in Dublin (Piedescalso) followed by a vineyard and vegetable garden in France (Les Dessous du Cep) from 2007 to 2014.
This experience has transformed the way she approaches ‘art making’, ‘art being’, ‘art sharing’ and roots this deeply within the land, plants and trees surrounding her.
James Jaggs
James Jaggs is a Dublin based actor with a BA Degree in Contemporary Theatre from East 15 Acting School in Essex. Having spent most of his life in England he created a lot of his own work devising theatre, making stop animation film, acting in film, doing a fair amount of Shakespeare and generally experimenting with performance.
He also trains aeriel straps exploring the possibilities for circus based performance to be extrapolated into other forms.
Marion Cronin
Photo by Jym Daly
Originally from Cork, dance artist Marion Cronin graduated with a BA (Hons) from the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance. She has performed with many choreographers and dance companies in the UK, including The D project, Duka Dance, John Ross and Mathew Robinson. Since returning to Ireland last year she has performed in Low_Lying for the 2015 project Mind your Step, worked with Micheal Keegan Dolan and Hélène Cathala through Step Up Dance Project, participated in Tipperary Dance Platform Lab’14 and has begun to work and collaborate with many Irish based dance choreographers. Marion is especially interested in collaborative improvisations and exchanges with artists from other disciplines.
Christine Mc Ardle
http://cristinemcardle.wix.com/budding-artist
Christine Mc Ardle is a Dublin based Artist, Designer and Model Maker with a BA Honours Degree in Model Making, Design & Digital Effects from the Institute of Art & Design Technology Dun Laoghaire.
She has a love for drawing and practices design, sculpture, model making, and photography.
Maura Cunningham
Maura Cunningham is a (recent-to) Skibbereen based artist primarily working in film and theatre. She has been a writer, director and editor of corporate films and ads for over 10 years and has worked in theatre as writer, director, actor, sound and lighting technician.
Maura has also studied contemporary dance and is currently involved with 'Guerilla Aerial' a collective that explores all aspects of theatrics, dance, aerial, art and costuming to create unusual and thought provoking sensory experiences