Somatic Distortion – Leitrim Sculpture Centre Oct 2019. Curated by Sandra Corrigan Breathnach

A performance titled, The subject being seated… .This work for body and voice involved the self induction of convulsions as per a text by F.X Dercum, ‘Artificial induction of Convulsive Seizures’ (1884), describing the process behind the images  taken by  Eadweard  Muybridge in the same year.  These images appear in Muybridge’s book ‘Animal Locomotion’.  Essentially it was a conflation of subject and object in which I recited the medical text while undergoing the convulsions. The text was repeated throughout the performance thus allowing the voice to be influenced by the convulsion within the body. Duration 1 hour 40 minutes.