ARTIST PROFILE
Film / video, Mixed media, Unclassified
Film / video, Mixed media
transmediale
Creamatorium combines sculpture, image, and text to explore the grave as a space for creative expression under colonial rule in Ireland, contrasting it with English approaches to garden design in the 17th and 18th centuries. Guided by the necropastoral and the subterranean - where death lives - ‘strange meetings’ happen between the artist, her friends, North Belfast horse mythology, the soil, the dead, and the internet.
Mixed media · Mixed media
A Paradise Out of A Common Field is a short animated film that explores the iconography of the zombie. While the origin of the zombie in cultural history is relatively unknown, within the confines of this film, she emerges from a lush garden before being submerged by the ocean. Playing with dream worlds consisting of feral horses and writhing flowers, horizons and image planes unfold to disorient viewers. The audio meanwhile transports listeners through a history of the Irish graveyard and its relationship to trauma. Originally commissioned by RTÉ Shine Your Light Art Commissions 2020 for Illuminations Gallery.
Film / video · Film / video
Creamatorium 2 is a collection of sculptures, images, and text that explores the grave and the cemetery as garden spaces under colonial rule in Ireland, contrasting it with English approaches to land ownership and garden design in the 17th and 18th centuries. The series merges suppressed queer Irish histories with interspecies communication, time travel, parallel universes, and dream worlds, and is accompanied by a performance and reading by Dylan Kerr, a non-binary performer from Dublin. Guided by the necropastoral and the subterranean (where death lives) “strange meetings” happen between North Belfast equine apparitions, the soil, the dead, and the internet.
Unclassified ·