Video + Performance
LAG TIME (2016).
Lag Time (2016)
Single channel colour video
Silent, 00:23 min. [looped]
ARTIST STATEMENT
Lag Time was recorded on the last leg of a fourteen-hour journey from New York City to Belfast. This video documents my effort to sleep with the rising sun coming in from the east, while traveling on a bus from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland.
Video + Performance
UNSUNG (2015–2016).
Unsung (2015–2016)
Screen-based videos with text
Approx. 15 seconds each [looped]
ARTIST STATEMENT
I started writing lyrics and poetry on my PC when I was thirteen. This project harks back to then, but instead of storing my work on a floppy disc for no one to see, I have posted it publicly via Instagram. The sound is important because it highlights part of my process. These short 'video texts' are recorded in real time, mistakes left in.
Video + Performance
FLAT LINE (2013).
Flat Line (2013)
Single channel colour video
1:53 min.
ARTIST STATEMENT
When I first moved to New York in 2012, I slept on an air mattress for six months. When I could finally afford to buy a real bed, I took the mattress to Coney Island in Brooklyn and embraced its flaws.
This video work is a sister project to Somewhere is Always Some Place Else (2013).
Video + Performance
WORK OUT (2013).
Work Out (2013)
Single channel colour video
Silent, 3:00 min.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I'd been thinking about wavelengths within a relationship, and how we naturally fluctuate and go back and forth with each other. In this way, Work Out is about every single relationship I have ever had.
Video + Performance
OBSTACLE RACE (2013).
Obstacle Race, 2013
Single channel colour video
Silent, 1:31 min.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Obstacle Race is about taking charge of an otherwise humiliating situation.
I’ve never been a fan of sports. But in Primary School, the one event kids like me were required to participate in was the Obstacle Race. When I was about eight years old, I actually won, only for a loudspeaker to inform me moments later that I’d been disqualified for not following the rules.
At the time of the race, I was obsessed with the Spice Girls, and I dreamt of being in New York City like Macaulay Culkin in the movie Home Alone 2. In this video performance, I reenact the race from memory, throwing in Spice Girls dance moves, while dressed in my favourite childhood t-shirt. The backdrop of the video features The Plaza Hotel, the central filming location in Home Alone 2.