The Resembled Self @ Pallas Contemporary Projects, June 2008 |
The Resembled Self: Programme
How do you Write a Play about your mother?
Grace Dyas
How do you write a play about your Mother? is Grace's attempt to resolve her experience of the devised stage play, This is a story about your Mother from which this piece was conceived. Although Grace's motivation in first embarking upon the project was to explore her own relationship with her mother she found that very little of her story was present in the final production. Grace is conscious that within the theatrical context there remains a barrier between those who present the work and those who view it. Invited by beardedmeteor to re-imagine This is a story about your Mother for inclusion in The Resembled Self Grace is taking the opportunity to ask her audience, How do you write a play about your Mother?
Born in the Year of the Silent Movie
Grace Dyas & Veronica Dyas
Born in the Year of the Silent Movie is a piece written by Veronica Dyas and directed by Grace Dyas. It marks the first collaborative project between the sisters who are both theatre practitioners. The piece is a story of the past, the past of the protagonist, the past of the writer and the memory of both, partly real, partly imaginary. In directing the piece, Grace furthers this engagement by adding her own aesthetic memory to the story, which is both told and yet remains untold, allowing the spectator to live through their own memory and imagination through participating in this installation.
Untitled
Emma Haugh
Emma Haugh's Untitled work explores the personal difficulties involved in leaving behind her home. Through still life photographic works and text Emma recreates the physical tension between absence and presence when they coexist in a single space. Through Emma's initial construction of the images and then further through her installation of the works within the context of The Resembled Self the work is primarily sculptural and performative. In this work Emma is interested in negating the presence of the lens in the final works, thus initiating an unobstructed communication between the work and its audience.
The Empty Face
Una Mc Kevitt
The Empty Face began as a play, of the same name, in two Acts and was originally intended as a response to Conceptual Art and Artists. However, on its first reading it became apparent that the play for all its dramatic conceits is really the story of two people disappointed by their experience of being seen and then forgotten, of being objectified via the process of sitting as subject for an artist, then being dispossessed of this position when the particular work of art was complete. Trying to express these concerns through a medium other than theatre, one that echoes the arena of the two act play by physically placing it within a contemporary art space creating an installation about a play about an installation art piece is the subject of this work.
The Violet Room
Sara Phillips
The Violet Room is an expression of Sara's experience of gender transition. Invited by beardedmeteor to expand upon her poem of the same name for inclusion in The Resembled Self Sara asks the audience to physically participate in her experience, in particular the internal and external resistance to self recognition which The Violet Room, as a physical space embodies.
The Resembled Self: Participating Artist Statements/Biographies
Grace Dyas: Grace's objective in all her work during process and production is to create at least one moment in which every member of the audience can find a resemblance to their own lives and experiences. In March 2008 Grace wrote and directed 'This is a Story about You' as part of Project Brand New at Project Arts Centre. In 2007, she was involved in DYT's thirtieth anniversary celebratory piece 'This Is Still Life', a collaborative production between members of DYT and Brokentalkers at Project Arts Centre. Her play 'This is a story about your Mother' was first produced as part of DYT's members One Act festival in December 2007. Most recently she assistant directed 'Fairy Godfather Is Dead' written and directed by Neil Watkins.
Emma Haugh: Emma is a Dublin based artist who uses various photographic media in her work incorporating the visual language of theatre to assist in engaging communication. In 2007 Emma curated Digital-Yesterday-Today at Project Arts Centre as part of Dublin Youth Theatre's 30 year anniversary celebrations. Emma held her first solo exhibition of work, 'My Year of Drag', at Gruel, Dame Street 2005. Her short experimental film 'Dead Like Versace' was screened as part of The Darklight Festival 2006 and Future Shorts 2007. In 2007 Emma won the aLAF photography exhibit installed at Filmbase Temple Bar. As well as her photographic work Emma has worked for eleven years as a theatre practitioner, including Projects funded by The Arts Council. She is currently a tutor of photography in Tallaght Probation Project and has curated annual exhibitions of student work for the past 3 years. .
Sara Phillips: Sara is making her artistic debut with The Violet Room. In recent years Sara has been active promoting the creative talents of her peers in the Transgendered Community co-founding Shopfloor Drama in 2006 at Outhouse on Capel Street. Sara is currently in the studio working on the production of an evening of her Songs and Music July 2008.