Artist Collaborator: Grace McEvoy - https://www.gracemcevoyartist.com/
Title: Echtrae
Collaborative Mediums: Video, Film, Photography, Performance Art, Sound, Installation.
Instagram: @echtrae_collaboration
Materials: Video Screen, Blue Chiffon, Riverbed Rocks, Blue Dye, Artists Body.
Year: 2018 - Present.
Artists Statement:
Echtrae is a new collaborative film project between EIARA winner Conor Coady and visual artist Grace McEvoy that combines lens based media with aspects of performance art. The piece ethereally explores the human body upon the Luna landscape of the Burren. Echtrae is a colourful cognitive experience with surrealist and semi abstract tones and qualities at play.
The untouched and unmolested landscape of the Burren is a space that allows for a rare breath of free thought and expression in modern society. Outside of such a marginalized space the human mind is constantly penetrated by forceful external entities and persistent stressful demands. In such a society and era, it is very difficult to get to know one self, untamed and unmoulded.
A landscape that hasn’t been dominated or bent to the will of man allows for space for the self to expand and explore itself in a way that is not possible in urban areas. For marginalized people of Ireland, such as the LGBTQI community, the landscape provides a unique space where one can identify and relate to the qualities of the space, its uniqueness and tranquility. A safe haven that is not destroyed by people, but rather protected. Unique but understood. A rare attitude among Irish people throughout history.
The body and the landscape share flesh and history of sorts. Both living, breathing organisms with the past marked upon the surface. This piece is an exploration of the relationship between the two, in order to achieve a higher understanding of the self, and the real over the fabricated.
Biography:
Grace McEvoy and Conor Coady are recent fine art graduates of Limerick School of Art and Design specializing in Photography, Film and Video (McEvoy) and Sculpture and Combined Media (Coady). Echtrae is a new body of collaborative work between the two artists in response to the luna landscape of the burren as part of Burren College of Arts Emerging Irish artist residency award which took place in October 2018. The resulting multi - medium installation was exhibited at BCA gallery, BallyVaghan and following 126 Artists - led gallery in Galway city in early 2019. Coady and McEvoy are both currently based in the Republic of Ireland.
Video Links:
https://vimeo.com/315727067?fbclid=IwAR0UBC-AtRoeymBB7902bwJKVMmwCzKg89-yOudQzDcbU0Z8UJgrWlssM9o
https://vimeo.com/315712335?fbclid=IwAR1cY1idXseJGcYN1XixzWfgcwUiKk4BBrkVvaU9QURTwhq3DIs3HeXEbmI
Title: Echtrae
Collaborative Mediums: Video, Film, Photography, Performance Art, Sound, Installation.
Instagram: @echtrae_collaboration
Materials: Video Screen, Blue Chiffon, Riverbed Rocks, Blue Dye, Artists Body.
Year: 2018 - Present.
Artists Statement:
Echtrae is a new collaborative film project between EIARA winner Conor Coady and visual artist Grace McEvoy that combines lens based media with aspects of performance art. The piece ethereally explores the human body upon the Luna landscape of the Burren. Echtrae is a colourful cognitive experience with surrealist and semi abstract tones and qualities at play.
The untouched and unmolested landscape of the Burren is a space that allows for a rare breath of free thought and expression in modern society. Outside of such a marginalized space the human mind is constantly penetrated by forceful external entities and persistent stressful demands. In such a society and era, it is very difficult to get to know one self, untamed and unmoulded.
A landscape that hasn’t been dominated or bent to the will of man allows for space for the self to expand and explore itself in a way that is not possible in urban areas. For marginalized people of Ireland, such as the LGBTQI community, the landscape provides a unique space where one can identify and relate to the qualities of the space, its uniqueness and tranquility. A safe haven that is not destroyed by people, but rather protected. Unique but understood. A rare attitude among Irish people throughout history.
The body and the landscape share flesh and history of sorts. Both living, breathing organisms with the past marked upon the surface. This piece is an exploration of the relationship between the two, in order to achieve a higher understanding of the self, and the real over the fabricated.
Biography:
Grace McEvoy and Conor Coady are recent fine art graduates of Limerick School of Art and Design specializing in Photography, Film and Video (McEvoy) and Sculpture and Combined Media (Coady). Echtrae is a new body of collaborative work between the two artists in response to the luna landscape of the burren as part of Burren College of Arts Emerging Irish artist residency award which took place in October 2018. The resulting multi - medium installation was exhibited at BCA gallery, BallyVaghan and following 126 Artists - led gallery in Galway city in early 2019. Coady and McEvoy are both currently based in the Republic of Ireland.
Video Links:
https://vimeo.com/315727067?fbclid=IwAR0UBC-AtRoeymBB7902bwJKVMmwCzKg89-yOudQzDcbU0Z8UJgrWlssM9o
https://vimeo.com/315712335?fbclid=IwAR1cY1idXseJGcYN1XixzWfgcwUiKk4BBrkVvaU9QURTwhq3DIs3HeXEbmI
Artist Collaborator: Michal Lubinski - @michal_lubinski_
Title: Untitled
Collaborative Mediums: Video, Live Performance, Installation.
Instagram: @michal_lubinski_
Materials: Video Screen, Pink Fabric, Artists Bodies.
Duration: Video - 10 minutes / Live Performance - 30 minutes.
Year: 2017 - Present.
Biography:
Conor Coady and Michal Lubinski are recent fine art graduates from Limerick School of Art and Design completing their specializing in Sculpture and Combined Media (Coady) and Photography, Film and Video (Lubinski). During their final year the two artists instigated a collaborative body of work combining video and live performance. The resulting work featured in exhibitions Sub-Rosa in Limerick City in December 2017 as well as The Ragaire Collectives fourth group show in Dali&Gala in Cork City in April of 2018.
Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3J3AeZX3Xg
Artist Collaborators: Aoife Lee, Niamh Dorgan - Performers
Anthony Green - Soundtrack & Performer
Catriona Osborne - Curation and Photography.
@aoifkaart /@antbyrneproject / niamhdorgan.weebly.com / @catrionaosborne
Title of Piece: Untitled
Collaborative Mediums: Sculpture, Installation, Sound, Live performance, Photography.
Materials: Red Fabric, Sound Speaker System, Laptop, Soundtrack (Anthony Byrne) Artists Bodies (Aoife Lee, Niamh Dorgan, Conor Coady)
Duration: 40 minutes.
Year: 2017
Biography: This collaborative piece between artists Aoife Lee, Niamh Dorgan, Catriona Osborne, Conor Coady and musician Anthony Byrne was a response to the exhibition brief entitled Sound and Vision which focused on bringing together artists and musicians to collaborate and work together creatively combining multi art mediums including Photography, Video, Sculpture, Sound and Music. Through this brief the creative individuals held discussions and presentations around themes of interest and past work. The piece created by the above artists explored three different conceptualized strands of The Feminine incorporating - The Grotesque (Dorgan), The Divine, (Lee) and the Suppressed (Coady). The artists brought each strand from their individual practices at that time creating a live performance art installation where all three were interwoven by red fabric connected at the centre by a speaker which projected the accompanying soundtrack created by Anthony Byrne layered with musical structures and studio sounds created by the artists involved. During the performance the performers moved intuitively to the soundscape and sculptural installation constructing and deconstructing iconography around the feminine. The resulting exhibition and installations entailed took place in Limerick City in February 2017.