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Grind Mouth

Dominic Thorpe


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Dominic Thorpe

Description

Grind Mouth is a performance-to-camera filmed in the former workhouse in Callan, Kilkenny. The video comes from a body of work responding to the complex web of perpetration and complicity in relation to the Irish famine and related emigration. In the work a series of honed actions register an internal layering of embodied trauma, resulting from various levels of direct and indirect participation in oppression and atrocity.

Grind Mouth was developed as part of the Border Crossings project at the SASA Gallery Adelaide for the Adelaide Fringe 2016 and the Galway Arts Festival 2016. It was subsequently shown in a number of contexts, including at the Galerie Michaela Stock Vienna 2019, The FPAC Assemblage Gallery Boston 2020 and Performance Space Folkstone UK 2018.


Screenings

  • 2020 — FPAC Assemblage Gallery Boston
  • 2019 — Galerie Michaela Stock Vienna
  • 2018 — Performance Space Folkstone UK.
  • 2016 — Adelaide Fringe
  • 2016 — Galway Arts Festival
Details
Title

Grind Mouth

Year

2016

Tags
performance art, Irish famine, emigration, trauma
Duration

09:07:00

Original formats

HD

Screening formats

Digital HD

Aspect ratio

16:9

Colour

Colour

Supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service, and Visual Artists Ireland.
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