This formed part of  ONE YEAR ON – a strand of the Festival with work by artists who had been part of the Elevator programme at the 2009 Festival. The strand offered continuing support to artists in their early career, while audiences had the opportunity to track this development in the artists’ early work across two Festivals.

From the original Festival website:

A lone figure drags herself across the floor to an unknown destination, to an unknown future. Her face meets every contour and crack along the way.

Michelle Browne’s work looks at sexuality and vulnerability, vanity and beauty, in the female body. The body acts as a site to find meaning in the actions that visit us in our everyday lives. Looking back to Greek tragic female figures such as Cassandra, Pandora and Medea, her work explores the roles of women in contemporary society. Working with milk, earth and high heels, Untitled sees the body as a site of difference, a space that harbours natural and cultural forces, that is challenged by biological and social needs.

Untitled is performed by Áine O’Dwyer.

Michelle Browne is an artist based in Dublin. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, taking part in Interakcje Performance Fesitval Poland 2009, the National Review of Live Art 2009, Urban Wasanii Public Art Project, Kenya 2008; Documenta Urbana, Germany 2007. She is the recipient of the NCAD Student Prize, The RDS James White Art Award 2006 and a 2008 artist bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. Michelle is the founder and curator of OUT OF SITE, a festival of live art in public space in Dublin.

michellebrowne.net