Anne Seagrave
Do Góry Nogami (Upside Down)
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installation performance: duration 10 hours 30 mins; video documentation above – 14 mins 16 secs. photographs: Manuel Vason
From the original Festival website:
A durational presentation exploring self-portraiture through a variety of media; painted images, video and live participation. Initially devised during the artist’s residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2006, the piece was subsequently presented in Poland, Finland and Israel. It has been adapted and recreated specifically for presentation at the NRLA’s 30th anniversary.
“Attaching the terms self-portrait, self-image, auto-depiction, or self-representation to Live Art practice is problematic and complex. How much personal identity should be recognisable to be called a self-image and what elements of the artist’s psychological self remain? This exhibit aims to engage, articulate and question what motivates the artist to allow the physical presence to act within and animate a presented art work.” Anne Seagrave 2009
Anne Seagrave (UK, Ireland/Spain/Poland) presented her distinctive movement based performance/video/installation work internationally between 1983-2008. For may years she was a regular visiting lecturer at NCAD in Dublin, freelance organiser of live art events in Ireland and for ten years was based part of the time in Spain. From 2004-2007 she was an Arts and Humanities Research Fellow at the University of Ulster in Belfast, focusing upon the artist’s use of self-image. In 2008 she retired from performing live and is currently based in Krakow working solely on paper.