Unadornable | I’m not a performance artist, but…, Performance + Film, 2023 + Sculpture, 2023, Paper

I'm not a performance artist, but...

‘I’m not a performance artist, but…’ was performed live at the RCA Gorvey Lecture Theatre on the 12th April, 2023

The performance included the live creation of a paper chain necklace made by ripping a paper copy of the Illegal Migration Bill. A silent black and white film depicting material and human migration, including documents personal to the artist’s own families journey and recent journalistic reporting highlighting social idiosyncrasies played on a large screen centre stage. The film ended simultaneously with the necklaces completion and at this point a spoken piece was delivered created from extracted text of the Illegal Migration Bill.

The work and performance were delivered in and with peaceful intent.