Video Installation
We rush about when there is plenty of time…endless time.
I was working as an artist, juggling family life and endlessly traveling by car from Wicklow to Dublin, when I developed 521. I recorded the soundtrack while driving home, I had a cassette recorder in the car. When I was selected to be part of a Banff residency, The Instability of the Feminist Subject, I had the opportunity to record 521 professionally. I made the final soundtrack in Banff with the performance artist, Lori Weidenhammer who had trained as an opera singer. We sang together and the sound engineer added the sound of the car engine to suggest a sense of advancing pace and the rawness of the original recording. When I returned to Ireland, I filmed some friends and our daughters at the Bronze age Pipers Stones, Athgreany Stone Circle, Co. Wicklow, and laid the soundtrack over the images we captured there. Time was measured then by the equinoxes. Images of busy traffic and images of the inner workings of the clocks in The National Museum, Collins Barracks were inter cut with the timelessness of the Piper’s Stones. Our society asks us to separate our lives into disconnected parts
Our voices are raised to ask that life be an all encompassing experience where all our contributions are equally important and equally valued.