Grind Mouth
Dominic Thorpe
Synopsis
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.
Concept & Technique
The video is characteristic of some of Dominic Thorpe's live performance works and emerges from an ongoing exploration of the growing but as yet under researched field of individual and collective perpetrator trauma.
Screenings
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.
Details
Title
Grind Mouth
Year
2016
Key phrases
performance art, Irish famine, emigration, trauma
Duration
09:07:00 (looped)
Original formats
HD
Screening formats
Digital HD
Aspect ratio
16:9
Colour
Colour
Sound
Yes
