January 2012
2 posts
“Back Up To The Sound & The Funk”
WatchAn audio-stomping-roof-studio-session in New York influenced by The Drifters, Bruce Nauman, Samuel Beckett & exercises for a broken leg.
December 2011
14 posts
“Lateral Canal Ahead”
– An exhibition & performance series with the Cambridge Arts Council, MA, October to December 2011
WatchSugar wos ear (extract), 2011
Sugar beet was grown in the fields around my home in Carlow town, Ireland, until the untimely closure of the Carlow sugar factory in 2005 to free the land for development.
In ‘Sugar Wos Ear’ I collect a palette for ephemeral graffiti while playing with ideas of abstraction, the making of colour-field paintings & compositions in the field, alluding...
Watch(Extract) River Barrow Track, Carlow, Ireland
I was attracted to the 19th Century Cambridge ice-trade, the idea that ice was harvested from a fresh water ice field, Fresh Pond, transported using specially laid train tracks to boats, where it was packed tight, insulated with hay, and shipped all over the world.
While I was at home thinking about trade on tracks, and moving the ephemeral, Ireland...
Lateral Canal Ahead
Irish artist Rosalind Murray creates playful, intimate and poetic images and narratives through performance. Murray draws and sings her way around the urban environment of the city of Cambridge, and the rural environment of her home place, Carlow, in the river Barrow valley in Ireland. Lateral Canal Ahead is a poetic detour of gallery works and live performances made on and around train-tracks and...
“Your Here Is My There”
Because Mischief Delights In Playing With...
Closing reception at CAC Gallery, 344 Broadway, MA. Monday, Dec 12th, 6pm
After six weeks presenting performances around the City of Cambridge as part of a residency with the Cambridge Arts Council, the video “Ice-Field-Baby-Maybe-Painting-Is-Not-Dead” is now on show at the CAC Gallery as the partner video for “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue, & Green, &...
Sugar & Ice
In the Nineteenth Century, ice was a valuable commodity. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, train tracks were laid and a rail system was developed to move ice from Fresh Pond to the wharfs in Charlestown for shipping all over the world. These developments in engineering and modes of travel and distribution were a part of the first wave of the Industrial Revolution, changing the way our ancestors...
WatchIce-Field-Baby
This is a rough edit from the performance series ‘Lateral Canal Ahead’ in Cambridge, MA with the Cambridge Arts Council……more coming soon!
November 2011
2 posts
LCA opening performance →
Click here to see extracts of ‘Lateral Canal Ahead’ opening performance in October published by Cambridge Community Television
October 2011
7 posts
April 2011
1 post
WatchFairground Baby is a wall-drawing performance with Youtube video of Rory Gallagher and his band playing ‘Tatoo’d Lady’ in Madrid, in 1975.
The song tells the story of traveling as part of the circus “Tatoo’d lady, Bearded baby, They’re my family…..”
http://www.rorygallagher.com/
February 2011
4 posts
WatchExtracts from the series ‘Bicycle Drawing & Other Lines’, with ‘Unbroken Line’ the work of Michael Warren, at Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland.
“Bicycle drawing & other lines”
– a series of three performances created with the work of Michael Warren for Visual Center for Contemporary Art, Ireland
July 2010
10 posts
“Singing Scully Tour”
– a remix of a lecture by Sean Scully becomes a poetic singing tour off his retrospective at Visual, Ireland
“Words on the move”
– an improvised singing-remix of Chamber, the digital work of Charles Sandison.
“Bell Campana”
– made at the Pari Institute of New Learning, Tuscany, Italy
May 2010
5 posts
“Singing lines, frames and grids”
– A Miniature Concert Series For Summer, performed at public locations in Brooklyn, New York
on tour at Metropolitan & Berry →
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March 2010
3 posts
“A River Track”
– we’re on the road to nowhere, come take that ride
November 2009
5 posts
“Sound samples”
mixing up of Blondie’s Heart of Glass