16.4.1

The piece has been developed in collaboration with the twenty performers, a mixture of actors and non actors and is the result of a unique process of call and return.  The piece is built around a minute long audio sample taken from a how-to-learn-new-york-accents CD. Both artists hold an interest in performance creation and wanted the learning of the piece to be by repetition of the audio recording rather than from a script. This method then makes the work less about personal interpretation and more focused on the performers delivery, movement and concentration. This also means the sincerity of the performance is called into question without having to address the content. The same audio monologue is delivered by the group of performers, with certain repeated phrases being heard in ripples and building to a cacophony of sound.

Niamh Murphy is a video artist with a particular interest in performative and biographical video and in live art. She graduated with first class honours from DLIADT in Visual Arts Practice in 2008 and is currently The Darklight Film Festival’s visual arts co-ordinator.  As Darklight/ Straylight curator she has aimed to bring live art to a wider and more varied audience. Her recent video work is strongly influenced by investigative documentary editing styles, and concentrates on the question of alternative realities and personal truths. Murphy’s work has been shown in The ISAFF Open Cinema Festival, St.Petersberg, Russia and the Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York and her most recent exhibition Pieces of Eight in Siamsa Tire, Tralee, runs until November 2009.

Meabh Redmond is a young visual artist who lives and works in Dublin. Meabh works in digital media; video, sound and photography. Since graduating from art college in November 2008, Meabh has continued to work primarily in video and has begun a practice in performance creation and collaboration. Within the last year, Meabh was on the winning team of the 24 hour film challenge CannonBall Run. Meabh produced a live visual set for musicians Najda and Aidan Baker, screened in The Twisted Pepper. She created a media show for the stage and performed in the Project Arts Centre with her multi-disciplinary art collective DeySed and gave a presentation about this show as part of the emerging artist TalkAbout Series in NCAD. Meabh’s work was recently selected for the upcoming Sydney Non Objective/10 Irish Artists Group Show in Sydney Australia.