Caravan, In the Closet 2006
To view Caravan
edited video footage go to:
www.youtube.com/ainephillips
TulcaLive
Nuns Island, Galway Arts Centre, 18th & 25th of November 2006
A TULCA/ Arts Council Commission
Two Caravan performances, 'Ceile & I' & 'In the Closet'
Description of Caravan performances
A small mobile caravan is sited at Nuns Island Studio Galway during Tulca Season of Visual Art in November 2006. I inhabit the caravan and conduct a series of live art, installation and performance works coinciding with TulcaLive events. TulcaLive is one part of the Tulca programme, presenting Live art and performance on two Saturdays in November. I was the curator of this programme from 2005-2007. I was commissioned by the Arts Council of Ireland and Tulca to produce 'caravan' for 2006.
Publicity information for the work
The caravan symbolises the internal psychic space or ‘home’ of the self. It explores the distinctive female projection of her inner space out into the external world, manifesting psychological ideas of shelter, refuge, comfort and security. Caravan is a personal work, representing a period of my life spent living in a caravan with my husband and child.
The caravan becomes a miniature theatre for the enactment of performative narratives and encounters. Part of the performance of Caravan is scripted and theatrical, part of the performance interactive, relational and participatory between artist and audience.
The Caravan is a place to call home, strange and comforting, a little ‘home from home’.
Description of 'In the Closet'
I inhabit the closet, a small wardrobe space inside the caravan, speaking to audience members as they enter, telling stories from childhood and reading love letters. In another closet space, a sound piece is installed, inside another smaller cupboard. The sound piece is of my daughter's voices alternatively giggling, crying and calling out 'help I'm lost, Áine…' the floor of this space is covered in a mound of shredded blankets and the door open only a crack. The floor of the main space is covered in mounds of sand in which small domestic objects are embedded. On the walls of the caravan are drawings of habitations, dwellings, pinned to the curtains are fragments of notes and letters relating to my experience of 'home'.
The audience enter and sit on comfortable seating, talking with me in the closet (I am seen through the slightly open door secured by a chain, and the end of my skirt flapping outside the door). As each group leave a new set of people enter.
Duration of piece
2 hours
edited video footage go to:
www.youtube.com/ainephillips
TulcaLive
Nuns Island, Galway Arts Centre, 18th & 25th of November 2006
A TULCA/ Arts Council Commission
Two Caravan performances, 'Ceile & I' & 'In the Closet'
Description of Caravan performances
A small mobile caravan is sited at Nuns Island Studio Galway during Tulca Season of Visual Art in November 2006. I inhabit the caravan and conduct a series of live art, installation and performance works coinciding with TulcaLive events. TulcaLive is one part of the Tulca programme, presenting Live art and performance on two Saturdays in November. I was the curator of this programme from 2005-2007. I was commissioned by the Arts Council of Ireland and Tulca to produce 'caravan' for 2006.
Publicity information for the work
The caravan symbolises the internal psychic space or ‘home’ of the self. It explores the distinctive female projection of her inner space out into the external world, manifesting psychological ideas of shelter, refuge, comfort and security. Caravan is a personal work, representing a period of my life spent living in a caravan with my husband and child.
The caravan becomes a miniature theatre for the enactment of performative narratives and encounters. Part of the performance of Caravan is scripted and theatrical, part of the performance interactive, relational and participatory between artist and audience.
The Caravan is a place to call home, strange and comforting, a little ‘home from home’.
Description of 'In the Closet'
I inhabit the closet, a small wardrobe space inside the caravan, speaking to audience members as they enter, telling stories from childhood and reading love letters. In another closet space, a sound piece is installed, inside another smaller cupboard. The sound piece is of my daughter's voices alternatively giggling, crying and calling out 'help I'm lost, Áine…' the floor of this space is covered in a mound of shredded blankets and the door open only a crack. The floor of the main space is covered in mounds of sand in which small domestic objects are embedded. On the walls of the caravan are drawings of habitations, dwellings, pinned to the curtains are fragments of notes and letters relating to my experience of 'home'.
The audience enter and sit on comfortable seating, talking with me in the closet (I am seen through the slightly open door secured by a chain, and the end of my skirt flapping outside the door). As each group leave a new set of people enter.
Duration of piece
2 hours
