SHE DEVIL in Belfast

Thursday, 17 December, 2015

Venue:

Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

'Scream of the sea', Sinéad O'Donnell, Poshya Kakil, Darya Kader, Erbil, Iraq.

'Scream of the sea' performance video curated by Jackie Barker for 'SHE DEVIL in Belfast'.

Artists: Sinéad O'Donnell, Poshya Kakil & Darya Kader.
Title: Scream of the sea.
Video duration: 03:09 minutes.
Real time duration: 1 hour.
Location: Citidal walls, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq.
Year: 2011.
This piece was part of CAUTION a Paralympic London 2012 unlimited commissioned project.
We requested a stop to violence against women in Iraq in red lipstick on glass in Arabic, English and Kurdish language. Our requests blurred through the action. Sinéad O’Donnell and Poshya Kakil carried glass as Darya Kader improvised a sound of action. There were moments when we thought we would be arrested during this action. It was a very intimately silent agreement of eyes that we would make this artwork happen and face the consequences if we needed to. That happened without speaking.

'SHE DEVIL' was born in 2006 from an idea of Stefania Miscetti and involves artists and curators, both Italian and international, from the youngest to the most successful ones. The various works and the different critical perspectives coexist within a discourse of many voices, in which emerge the multiplicity of feminine worlds and visions.
SHE DEVIL is the name of a heroine in the Marvel Comics Universe, Shanna the She Devil, and title of the famous 1989 Susan Siedelman’s film. In this circumstance it alludes, in a playful manner, to the diabolic and bizarre spirit with which the artistic experience investigates the day-to-day life. In continuity with the previous Editions of the review, the videos represent the female points of view and place the various fields of the video art research in direct contrast with one another. The purpose of the initiative is to stress, at times using irony, at times realism, the collective consciousness on themes such as female identity, the body as repository of representation and meaning, and personal experiences on universal dimensions, even when the very intimacy of the artists is at the forefront of their works.”

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