Collaborations

COLLABORATIONS, INSTALLATIONS & ART WRITING

2022:

‘Yellow’, an essay written and read by Sinéad for BBC Radio 4‘s Viewfinders series, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. This essay looks at the durational artwork, ‘Yellow’ (2008) by Irish performance artist, Amanda Cooganin the context of Berger’s book, exploring colour, time, religious concepts of the cleansing of sins and ablution, the repetition and hardship of labour in Magdalene laundries, and echoes Silvia Federici’s Wages Against Housework ideas. Listen here:

 

‘Béal: All Silent But For The Buzzing’, a text and sound commission by artist Aideen Barry as part of ‘By Slight Ligaments’ in Oblivion, at Limerick City Gallery, Dec 2021 to February 2022, in collaboration with composer Stephen Shannon. Oblivion runs at Source Arts Centre until April 22nd, and will be at in  Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, later in 2022.

 

A limited edition yellow vinyl pressing of ‘Béal: All Silent But for the Buzzing’ is is available to pre-order on Aideen Barry‘s website here:

2021:

‘We Are The Map’, a text and sound commission by artists Alice MaherandRachel Fallonfor their work ‘The Map, as part of the Magdalene series at Rua Red Gallery, Dublin, from October 2021 to March 2022 in collaboration with composerStephen Shannon.

2020:

‘Distance’,a text and sound commission for RTÉ Radio One‘s Keywords show, broadcast in the early days of the lockdown in.

 

2019:

‘The Haunted Haunting Women’ and ‘A Non-Letter To My Daughter’, both originally published in Constellations, adapted into a sound performance with composer Stephen Shannon. This was performed as part of Paul Muldoon’s Picnic and the Dock Arts Centre in Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim2018:

‘Your Chroma’, an essay originally published in Gorse, turned into a sound performance with composer Stephen Shannon. This was performed as part of the Los Gatos Writers Festival in California and at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.

‘PANOPTICON: Hospital visions, or encounters with medical spaces as an individual’, as part Ex-Voto: The Body + The Institution at Galway Arts Centre.