Death, Void, and Sometimes My Mother
Death, Void, and Sometimes My Mother
Thursday, May 3, 2012
7pm
Free and open to the public
Death, Void, and Sometimes my Mother is a new live collaborative performance by artists Atsushi Kaga and Louise Ward. It will take place at 7pm on May 3rd, at Location One.
The show combines a number of media; the process of art-making itself is combined with concerns on the personal, the social and the cultural in relation to the everyday. The audience will be immersed in stories, music, and visual art. Questions about how we (individuals and communities) navigate and make sense of our surroundings will arise throughout the performance. The performance will be very mundane, gently humorous and mildly tragic.
Kaga creates an imaginative conversation between Michael Jackson, Giorgio Morandi and his mother, Kasuko, who are represented by three large skulls. Ward makes atmospheric sounds and colour fields with lights, video and sculpture that have links to the body and cut across time and cultural boundaries.
Video excerpt from rehearsal
Atsushi Kaga is a Japanese artist based in Dublin. His paintings and drawings deal with the search for identity and mundane questions which there are no obvious answers to. He is currently in a group show I Love Those Paintings [art, natural and social science] at Mother’s Tankstation in Dublin, until May 26th. He has shown internationally in venues such as Galeria Leme, São Paulo; Kantor Art, LA; and in the Project Room at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Kaga is represented by Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin.
Louise Ward is an Irish artist based in London. She uses a sculptural language to develop a lexicon of signs and memories, both personal and cultural that imply a shifting relationship to the symbolic and our immediate environment. She is currently in a group show at Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg. Her work has been screened at Chisenhale Gallery, London; Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; she performed as part of An Instructional: Mart European Tour at Shunt, London.