Nomadic Patterns of Kinship
SINEAD O'DONNELL [N. IRELAND] PLUS KELLY PINHO [NEWARK, NJ]
[NORTHERN IRELAND]
"NOMADIC PATTERNS OF KINSHIP"
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
9:00 - 11:30 PM
SINÉAD O'DONNELL [BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND]
My performance practice is nomadic and patterns of travel have broadened my cultural perceptions and influenced my artistic sensibilities regarding time and space. I am also highly active in the Belfast performance art scene working with local organisations to foster performance art activity and support emerging artists in my community.
The critical and artistic core of my solo work explores identity through immediate and mediated encounters with territory and the territorial. Recent performances have been presented at the National Review of Live Art Glasgow 2010, Art No.11 experimental residency Japan 2010, ArTrend performance art festival Taiwan 2009, Gt Gallery project space Belfast 2009, Shelter 209 Israel 09, My land performance art festival Croatia 09, Glassbox exhibition space University of Ulster Belfast 09, and Paves,Toynbee studios London, 09.
KELLY PINHO [NEWARK, NJ]
"East of the sun west of the I'm sick of this shit" is part of a series started last May with the debut of "Tell me a story" that addresses the myths and media manipulation that devalue the female experience in regard to love.
In the majority of my work I use a system of repetitive movements and sound installation. I hope that by utilizing the archetypes that are so prevalent in world literature and folklore that I can strike the proverbial cord that all those Jungian scholars are all ways getting so riled up about.