Ceile & I 2006 and Armed Love 20082008
To view Ceile & I retitled Armed Love
edited video footage go to:
www.youtube.com/ainephillips
Live@No.8, Galway Arts Festival
Bar 8, Docks Galway, 23rd July 2008
TulcaLive
Nuns Island, Galway Arts Centre, 18th & 25th of November 2006
A TULCA/ Arts Council Commission
Description of Ceile & I, or Armed Love performances
In 2006, Ceile Varley, my daughter performed with me in the Caravan series for TulcaLive. A small mobile caravan is sited at Nuns Island Studio Galway during Tulca Season of Visual Art in November 2006. In the caravan I conducted a series of live art, installation and performance works coinciding with TulcaLive events.
Description of performance – Ceile & I
My daughter Ceile and I, perform together with the caravan as an environment, a context for our relationship. We carry out a series of actions relating to core experiences of our mother/ daughter bond and our shared history. We begin tied together back to back and move outside the caravan where I apply make-up to my eyes in the reflection of Ceile's eyes. I wash her hands, and she mine. We rub Vaseline generously into our hands and perform an arm wrestle across a small fold-out table. Our contest is equally matched and vigorous. I pull a stream of blankets sewn together from the caravan, wrap us both together and bundled, we move back inside the caravan.
This performance saught to represent aspects of my relationship with Ceile, my daughter over the 15 years of our life together. We selected (collaboratively) a series of actions to perform using the caravan as a backdrop and a stage, a framing for the performance. We lived in a caravan together when she was a baby and I wanted to use the caravan as another character in our enactment..
We re-performed the piece as Armed Love in 2008, isolating the vaseline arm wrestle as the central image/action. As mother and daughter we enact a form of combat which is benign but resonant of the complexities of our relationship - in this act there is contest, competition, intimacy, a bid for dominance, tenderness and more.
Duration of piece
20 minutes
edited video footage go to:
www.youtube.com/ainephillips
Live@No.8, Galway Arts Festival
Bar 8, Docks Galway, 23rd July 2008
TulcaLive
Nuns Island, Galway Arts Centre, 18th & 25th of November 2006
A TULCA/ Arts Council Commission
Description of Ceile & I, or Armed Love performances
In 2006, Ceile Varley, my daughter performed with me in the Caravan series for TulcaLive. A small mobile caravan is sited at Nuns Island Studio Galway during Tulca Season of Visual Art in November 2006. In the caravan I conducted a series of live art, installation and performance works coinciding with TulcaLive events.
Description of performance – Ceile & I
My daughter Ceile and I, perform together with the caravan as an environment, a context for our relationship. We carry out a series of actions relating to core experiences of our mother/ daughter bond and our shared history. We begin tied together back to back and move outside the caravan where I apply make-up to my eyes in the reflection of Ceile's eyes. I wash her hands, and she mine. We rub Vaseline generously into our hands and perform an arm wrestle across a small fold-out table. Our contest is equally matched and vigorous. I pull a stream of blankets sewn together from the caravan, wrap us both together and bundled, we move back inside the caravan.
This performance saught to represent aspects of my relationship with Ceile, my daughter over the 15 years of our life together. We selected (collaboratively) a series of actions to perform using the caravan as a backdrop and a stage, a framing for the performance. We lived in a caravan together when she was a baby and I wanted to use the caravan as another character in our enactment..
We re-performed the piece as Armed Love in 2008, isolating the vaseline arm wrestle as the central image/action. As mother and daughter we enact a form of combat which is benign but resonant of the complexities of our relationship - in this act there is contest, competition, intimacy, a bid for dominance, tenderness and more.
Duration of piece
20 minutes
