Project Details

Description

Commissioned by Triskel Arts Centre as part of the Cork European Capital of Culture 2005, Eight Rooms is an installation work relating to the site of a derelict wing of the Cork City Gaol, known locally as the ‘Cork Women’s Prison.' The work comprises 6-channel video & audio, 6 concrete beds with aluminium armature, photographic time-lapse and sound recording. This integration of voice performance, moving image and architectural objects evokes an imagined inhabitation of the site concomitant with a kinesthetic experience communicating, through the body, the cold, the damp and the ruin of it all. The project also involved the production of a limited edition artists’ book of poetry and drawings as well as the organisation and running of a creative workshop for inmates at the Limerick City Prison.

StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/05/031/09/05

Funding

  • Unknown: £10,000.00
  • Memento Mori

    Kreider, K. & O'Leary, J., 2010, In: Performance Research. 15, 1, p. 66-71 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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  • Reflections on Cork 2005

    Kreider, K. & O'Leary, J., 2006, In: Icon.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticle

  • Eight Rooms

    Kreider, K. & O'Leary, J., Sept 2005

    Research output: Non-textual formExhibition

  • Project X

    Kristen Kreider (Speaker)

    Oct 2007

    Activity: OtherPublic engagement, outreach and knowledge exchange - Public Lecture/debate/seminar

  • Triskel Arts Centre

    Kristen Kreider (Participant)

    Sept 2005Oct 2005

    Activity: OtherPublic engagement, outreach and knowledge exchange - Festival/exhibition

  • Artist in Residence at Limerick Prison

    Kristen Kreider (Participant)

    Jul 2005Aug 2005

    Activity: OtherPublic engagement, outreach and knowledge exchange - Other