Artists Statement 2012
My practice explores the fragmentary nature of identity. I am interested in theories of performance and masquerade. Through an experimental use of moving image and sound, I adapt and create narratives, or make choreographed studies of human behaviour.
My work has an emphasis on the lyrical and the theatrical and I attempt to find new ways of using filmic signifiers to reflect my ideas.
An extract from my recent work can currently
be viewed on this link:
http://youtu.be/n9ElYtXIVxw
Monday, December 12, 2011
The Gifted Water
HD video and Super8 film/colour/sound/15’/Úna Quigley/2012
The Gifted Water is a long form video art work that follows a narrative about a woman with an identity disorder.
The character “Amy” has a fragmented identity which is permeated by her shifting environments. She moves through illusions of grandeur and persecution, between genders and ages, as she weaves through spaces.
The “Amy” character suggests the possibilities of alterity. The dynamic of her fluctuating identity recalls Freud’s argument that, in the experience of losing another human being whom one has loved, the ego is said to incorporate that other into the very structure of the ego, taking on attributes of the other and “sustaining” the other through magical acts of imitation.
The character has evolved physically with the collaboration of dancer Sheena McGrandles, whose work is concerned with “doing” the body, with an attempt to disturb it and the space it inhabits.
The work was filmed in Berlin and was grant-aided by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Performers: Sheena McGrandles (Amy) and Úna Quigley (voice)
Sound/Music: Loz Fitzgibbon
Camera and edit: Úna Quigley
HD video and Super8 film/colour/sound/15’/Úna Quigley/2012
The Gifted Water is a long form video art work that follows a narrative about a woman with an identity disorder.
The character “Amy” has a fragmented identity which is permeated by her shifting environments. She moves through illusions of grandeur and persecution, between genders and ages, as she weaves through spaces.
The “Amy” character suggests the possibilities of alterity. The dynamic of her fluctuating identity recalls Freud’s argument that, in the experience of losing another human being whom one has loved, the ego is said to incorporate that other into the very structure of the ego, taking on attributes of the other and “sustaining” the other through magical acts of imitation.
The character has evolved physically with the collaboration of dancer Sheena McGrandles, whose work is concerned with “doing” the body, with an attempt to disturb it and the space it inhabits.
The work was filmed in Berlin and was grant-aided by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Performers: Sheena McGrandles (Amy) and Úna Quigley (voice)
Sound/Music: Loz Fitzgibbon
Camera and edit: Úna Quigley
Monday, July 25, 2011
“After Morocco” (10min) 2010, is a video art work based on an adaptation of the film “Morocco”, made in 1930 by Josef Von Sternberg.
My script takes certain scenes from the original narrative, distills the action and inserts unexpected elements to create an allegory about the unfixed nature of identity.
It was performed by George Hanover, Gavin McEntee and Conor Tallon and grant-aided by the Cork County Council, Ireland.
My script takes certain scenes from the original narrative, distills the action and inserts unexpected elements to create an allegory about the unfixed nature of identity.
It was performed by George Hanover, Gavin McEntee and Conor Tallon and grant-aided by the Cork County Council, Ireland.
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