The Triangle

The triangle is a shape that has three equal lines and three points inside the shape and outside the shape. Turned in any direction the triangle remains the same shape. 

Facing upwards the triangle represents the Male, it is Active, it is Mountainous, it is up, it is the father.

Facing downwards the triangle represents the Female, it is Passive, it is symbolic of Caves, it is down, it is the mother. 

The adaptation of Professionalism

Artists have collaborated with others to further enhance their own work consistently. With particular attention in response to my own practise, Screen Dance has too been apart of this collaboration. Screen Dance involves a very multidisciplinary approach to film. It employs music, dance, film and art to allow a deep engagement to the overall art piece. Its foundations lay with Maya Deren, influenced by some of the major cinematographers and directors of her time such as that of Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Bergman etc. However her primary influences do not come from film but rather her experiences with Dance and Literature. As a professional writer and English major Deren brings together all of the primary elements and takes upon approaches like that of Merce Cunningham where the performance becomes more expressive and contributes to this with her own artistic input allowing both the camera and the environment to become entities of the art work. This continued with Hilary Harris in the 50s' and 60s' when he employs professionalism to his work with professional dancers as he and indeed Deren, jointly agreed that the strength a professional performer will bring to piece enhances the visual experience for the voyeur allowing further interpretation and a greater enriching concept.

Maya Deren A Study in Choreography for Camera 1945

Hilary Harris Nine Variations of a Dance Theme 1966

Michael Farrell

Working mainly in the new medium of acrylic, Micheal Farrell's intention was to recapture the formal vibrancy of Irish illuminated manuscripts combining geometric and organic elements with the Celtic. His renderings were in tune with the hard-edged abstraction then current internationally. - See more at: http://www.crawfordartgallery.ie/Exhibition_Micheal_Farrell.html#sthash.oBqKNWIZ.dpuf

Seminar Review November 2013

Seminar group presentations consist of a grouping of fourth year students and two tutors. This presentation required each individual student to present one piece of work that represented the current state of research, the point of which individual students had reached since the beginning of the semester. The brief required each artist to present the work in with the same attention to detail that would be assumed in a gallery structure.

I personally presented my most recent investigation which was made up of a 4 minute film clip of a performance in a dark space. In my continuing research I am aiming to communicate a sense of the alternate personality that is present within the mind of the performing body. Both the current physical state and the ego become present within the piece though.

The convergence is illustrated through technique. In a classical dance practice a very precise and technical technique is exercised of which is featured with the inclination of the embodiment of the present and physical entity. The more expressive and contemporary movement that is carried forward thereafter envisages the alternate.

There is also a strong theme of identity that travels through my current research. Looking at the struggle of ones development and that of their physical and mental state. The face is the primary focus one would acknowledge when communicating, when this is removed you are forced to look elsewhere. With the adaptation of a black body suit, I remove the identity of the performer which triggers the voyeur to search elsewhere.

Response from the seminar group was all-in-all positive and constructive. The employment of a professional dancer became one of the key general consensus. The methodology and structure was positively responsive. It was suggested that I would become the director as opposed to the performer as one with a pure classical background would communicate the conceptual language greater.

Hilary Harris

Kerry Tribe: Critical Mass

Critical Mass is Kerry Tribes interpretation of the Modern Family spoken through the lens featuring three entities, one that represents the father, mother and child. Throughout the piece there is a recurring theme of vocal repetition between the dialogue of the mother and father. Meanwhile in what seems to be the child in the piece, the acknowledgement of whom is minimal if at all throughout its duration. A clear representation of individual consumption and narcissism, lack of priorities or self indulgence.

'Hollis Frampton’s groundbreaking experimental film Critical Mass (1971) captures an argument between a couple and cuts it up into a series of rhythmic, repetitive snippets. In this project a live performance of the classic structural film is staged with actors Nick Huff and Emelie O'Hara as the young couple.'

http://vimeo.com/23603179