Burning mirror 2006
To view Burning Mirror
edited video footage go to:
www.youtube.com/ainephillips
(Burning house/ talking mirror)
Digital Exchange at the launch of Creative Corridor and
NCAD Degree Show Opening
Guinness Hops Store, Dublin 9th June 2006
Description of performance: Talking Mirror
Dressed elegantly in black, I carry a large circular mirror through the various spaces, stairs and corridors of the venue, walking backwards using the mirror to navigate. I make eye contact with various members of the audience (of roughly 200 people) and engage in conversation with people about my actions, the background to the piece, its meanings and symbolism, but only speaking through the mirror.
Description of Video installation: Burning House
Alongside this live work, I also project a video work, installed in an alcove of the main area that the audience moved through. The video is (an eight minute in duration, looped) reversed footage of my dog house burning in my garden in Clare. The video describes the progression of a structure (of unknowable scale similar in proportion to a domestic house) from burnt embers and ashes back to completeness, integrity and reconstruction.
Publicity information for the work
burning
A house on fire, burnt to embers, is reconstituted in reverse.
Something that is ruined restores itself
mirror
A woman moves through areas of the building
in reverse through a mirror, looking.
something that is inverted reflects itself
Duration of piece
For the duration of the public event (approximately 2 hours)
edited video footage go to:
www.youtube.com/ainephillips
(Burning house/ talking mirror)
Digital Exchange at the launch of Creative Corridor and
NCAD Degree Show Opening
Guinness Hops Store, Dublin 9th June 2006
Description of performance: Talking Mirror
Dressed elegantly in black, I carry a large circular mirror through the various spaces, stairs and corridors of the venue, walking backwards using the mirror to navigate. I make eye contact with various members of the audience (of roughly 200 people) and engage in conversation with people about my actions, the background to the piece, its meanings and symbolism, but only speaking through the mirror.
Description of Video installation: Burning House
Alongside this live work, I also project a video work, installed in an alcove of the main area that the audience moved through. The video is (an eight minute in duration, looped) reversed footage of my dog house burning in my garden in Clare. The video describes the progression of a structure (of unknowable scale similar in proportion to a domestic house) from burnt embers and ashes back to completeness, integrity and reconstruction.
Publicity information for the work
burning
A house on fire, burnt to embers, is reconstituted in reverse.
Something that is ruined restores itself
mirror
A woman moves through areas of the building
in reverse through a mirror, looking.
something that is inverted reflects itself
Duration of piece
For the duration of the public event (approximately 2 hours)
