Sinéad Keogh è una giovane artista irlandese che ho chiamato spesso a partecipare ad eventi artistici in Italia e in Irlanda.
Art performer molto creativa e profonda che con le sue “azioni” indaga i sentimenti e il rapporto a due.
La performance “If you were mine” racconta la sostanziale differenza tra l’amore com’era un tempo e l’amore com’è oggi nell’era digitale, dove tutto ciò che è privato diventa pubblico.
Il titolo le è stato ispirato dalla canzone “If you were mine” scritta da Teddy Wilson e cantata da Billie Holiday, singolo pubblicato nel 1947.
La musica da’ un senso di allegra spensieratezza mentre il testo è malinconico e doloroso.
L’artista per la sua performance ha lasciato suonare un giradischi vintage con un video proiettato in alto quasi a sovrastare lo spettatore.
La performer interagisce con il video come se ne fosse parte: mondo reale che si confonde con mondo virtuale e viceversa, metafora dei ‘tempi moderni’
Artist bio:
Sinéad Keogh is a multimedia performance artist with a recently finished MA in Fine- art from NCAD (National College of Art and Design) in Dublin. Sinéad is also an expressionist dance instructor at the NCBI (National Council for the Blind of Ireland) for the past four years. Keogh has had many exhibitions in Dublin institutions such as The Broadcast Gallery, IMMA, and The Lab and exhibited internationally in New York, Italy and Glasgow. Keogh has made work for festivals such as BIFPA and The Bram Stoker Festival. The utilisation of raw human states are ever present through the artists practice created from ideologies of intensification of the senses leading to immersive , often emotional experiences. Keogh has collaborated with groups such as Create and performance artist Pauline Cummins. Keogh works and is based in Dublin.
Artist statement:
The intention for the artwork is to create a socially reflective installation that constructs a counterbalance between the age old idea of finding true love and the modern reality of love in the digital age. The piece reflects a state of a public act becoming private and a private act becoming public.The title for this work If you were mine is a Jazz/Blues song composed by Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday which was released as a single in 1947. The song gives a feeling of charm and light heartedness but there is a bleak and painful sensibility to the lyrics themselves …
If you were mine, I would live for your world alone,to kneel at your shrine
I would give up all that I own.
For the purposes of this work I have obtained the single on record which will be played in the installation space off a record player. The video was designed to be shown large scale and from a height above the viewer and the preformer to create the illusion that she is on screen and interacting with the performer in the space. Her voice is echoed also to demonstate this illusion that she is speaking in the space.