Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities, Uniarts Helsinki, FI (2022)
The Trouble with Doing a Lot with Very Little |
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Eoin O’Dowd and Steve Maher share a collaborative dialogical project The Trouble with Doing a Lot with Very Little utilising the structure of an Irish Traditional Session (Sesh) as an experimental tool to discuss redistribution through the oral histories of cultural practice and production, exploring the possibilities for alternative models openly within the free flow of anecdote, critique, folk music, storytelling and song.
The work debuted as part of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities 2022 at Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki. Hosted by Frame Contemporary Art Finland 2022. Curated by Mary Conlon of Ormston House and Steve Maher of Pixelache. The full programme consisted of contributions from El Reid-Buckley, William Keohane, Steve Maher, Eoin O'Dowd, Vishnu Vardhani Rajan and Isa Hukka.
The work debuted as part of Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities 2022 at Theatre Academy of Uniarts Helsinki. Hosted by Frame Contemporary Art Finland 2022. Curated by Mary Conlon of Ormston House and Steve Maher of Pixelache. The full programme consisted of contributions from El Reid-Buckley, William Keohane, Steve Maher, Eoin O'Dowd, Vishnu Vardhani Rajan and Isa Hukka.
Photos courtesy of Frame and Sheung Yiu
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Performance: Scátháin Teanga Concerned with how language and learning physically alters the brain and thus perception, and having worked as a language teacher, musician, and experiencing head trauma and recovery. This project involves memorizing a reversed recording of the 19th century folk song 'Peggy Gordon', a song of personal familial significance. Adapted from performance, the recorded singing the of the piece, both forward and backwards, is then demonstrated in reverse. Reverse-speech itself being of no seminal academic value other than demonstrating the brain's remarkable ability to adapt and attribute new symbols and systems to create meaning. Scátháin Teanga debuted as part of The Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities 2022. |
Phonetic text 'Peggy Gordan'
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