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Ireland/UK/Canada, 2013 - 2014

Stemming from the historical footnote of a decapitated cartographer, this piece is an improvised orchestration of: colour-coding, choral participation, shades of green, shades of brown, usability, various scales and legends, repeat after me, a de-railed Photoshop tutorial, kinds of violence, a reluctance to be found, the idiocy of neutral space, brush painting, walking, and compromised visibility.

Iteration for Toronto, 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art:
Expanded-cinema site-specific performance with digital projection, overhead projection, Photoshop, microphone, voice, felt pens, and participation, duration variable - approximately 30 minutes

Toronto, 2014

Iteration for the Clonlea Studios in the context of (((O))) curated by Lee Welch and Teresa Gillespie:

Starting with the song Beyond the Sea, sung a cappella in the same breath and brushstroke as enso (a meditation exercise of painting concentric circles), the performance of mapping moves through the flat, digital layers of Photoshop, then to collectively following the path of Johan, the robot lawnmower. It then shifts to the repetitive brushstrokes of the Chinese character for “air”, written in pond water, and lastly, the overhead projection of map drawing and shades of green.

Expanded-cinema site-specific performance with digital projection, overhead projection, Photoshop, robot lawnmower, voice, audio, brush and ink, felt pens, and participation, duration variable - approximately 30 minutes

Dublin 2013

Layers, Channels, Paths, History

Performance documentation. Photo credit: Henry Chan

The queen sent the knight to draw a map
The queen sent the knight to draw a map
The queen sent the knight to cover the country and shed some light on names and hills
Shed some light on names and hills
They did not want their country covered
They did not want the queen
The knight
The names
The roads
The map
They did not want their country covered
They cut off his head, the knight
They cut off his head, and sent it back
But the knight was not the last
New maps have been submitted and drawn
New maps have been drawn