In ‘A Grief Observed’, C.S. Lewis wrote of ‘the fatal obedience of the image,’ in which the dead may become images at the mercy of memory’s caprice in the bereaved.
Here, in the wake of their own grief not only of the loss of the principal patriarchal archetype in their father, but of their own self-image, the artist’s queered body stages the first of a series of live self-portraits.
Day Magee (IE)
We may grieve not only the dead, but the living to whom we perform images, as well as our own countless selves whose aperture time pierces, this series of performances chronicling a sequence of living Memento Moris.
Day Magee (they, them) is an artist, performer, and writer based in Dublin. Exploring the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the intersections of queerness, illness, and religiosity, their work engages phenomenology as an enactive creative material via performance-centred multimedia and workshops. Their work has been commissioned by and appeared in TULCA Festival (2019); Arts & Disability Ireland (2021); Pallas Projects/Studios (2022); Limerick City Gallery of Art (2022); 126 Gallery (2023); Rua Red (2023); the Hugh Lane Gallery (2023) and Mirror Lamp Press (2024). Their transdisciplinary practice is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Infos
| DATE | CONTENU |
|---|---|
| 2025/04/181800 |
18.04.2025 18:00 > 21:00 La Balsamine Réservations |
Durational performance. Entry and exit allowed.
Co-presented with La Balsamine. With the support of Culture Ireland.
