Mimesis

Mimesis was "the primary dramatic phenomenon: projecting oneself outside oneself and then acting as though one had really entered another body, another character." Mimesis and the Aesthetic Experience Essay by R.Cronk

Something You Can Feel - Ritual - Dublin Live Art Festival 2012 - Images by Hazel Fitzpatrick. The piece explores bodily transformations in the context of the phenomenon of spirit possession. During the performance Fay channels, amongst others, American R&B/soul singer Millie Jackson.

Transformation

Performance has taught us an extremely important lesson: we are not straitjacketed by identity. Our repertoire of multiple identities is in fact an intrinsic part of our survival kit.
*Extracts from in Defence of Performance Art
by Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Making Do With Paper Crowns

A Collaborative Exhibition Of Artists From Four Dublin Studio Complexes














































(And so
mounting as it were by steps, let us get to heaven by a Jacob’s
ladder. For the ladder seems to me to signify in a riddle by that
vision the gradual ascent by means of virtue, by which it is possible
for us to ascend from earth to heaven, not using material steps, but
improvement and correction of manners - Saint John Chrysostom)