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A collection of film, live performance, and installation works by Mary Wycherley. Presented in galleries, on stage and in cinematic contexts.
Woman stands in knee deep water with back to camera 2023 | A work of film, dance, poetry, music & song Weathering Created in collaboration with writer Jools Gilson, singer Ceara Conway and composer Jürgen Simpson, Weathering showcases Wycherley’s hallmark interdisciplinary style. Navigating the boundary between…
Marion Cronin dancing on Mountain for Far-flung Dances 2020 | A series of 5 films | HD singe screen Far-flung Dances A site-specific exploration through dance, movement and film responding to a selection of County Tipperary’s unique and natural environments and places. The work unfolds in a series of 5 screendance…
Blue film still 2020 | Short film | HD single screen | 3’20'' no 5. (rupture) This is a body and a body of water from a body of work. no 5 from a series created with new and archival imagery. (2008 -2020)
Magdalena Hylak performing 2019 | Site-specific live performance invisible histories II : intersections A site-specific re-working of a 2018 work for solo performer, sculptural objects and sound art. This adaptation is commissioned by Tipperary Dance Platform for The Main Guard building in Clonmel…
Invisible Histories 2018 | Live Performance for Gallery INVISIBLE HISTORIES invisible histories is an interdisciplinary live performance work made for the gallery environment that explores time and memory through dance, sculpture and sound art.
Sinter 1 2018 | Live performance & video | 20' SINTER This piece probes the in-between and mines underneath the surface of the everyday.
Mary Wycherley 2017 | Live Performance | 20' A MOMENT IN TIME Certain and uncertain, seeking and finding, this work navigates movement and the process of decision-making in dance.
Wrongheaded 1 2016 | HD single screen | 9'40'' WRoNGHEADED Fierce physicality and restless poetry intertwine in a film that highlights the current debate in Irish Society around choices available to women regarding their bodies.
Bells 4 2015 | HD Cinematic | 75min IN THE BELLS SHADOW ‘In the Bell’s Shadow’ is a collaboration between screendance director Mary Wycherley and contemporary dance pioneer Joan Davis. Vivid imagery, heightened by Jürgen Simpson’s striking original score…
2014 | HD Diptych | 11' STARTING WITH T An interdisciplinary diptych installation involving women drawn from a range of communities in Limerick City.
Making 1 2012 | HD triptych | 13' THE DANCE OF MAKING The gradual changing nature of manual craft and traditions, caused in part by perceived notions of progress, is examined through a three-screen film installation.
2012 | HD single screen | 1' CONTOUR Weaving a thread of connection between dance, film and performance art, Contour explores the body as ‘landscape’ and a space in which autobiography is embodied in movement.
Frames & fragments 2012 | HD single screen | 22' FRAMES & FRAGMENTS A 22-minute portrayal and recognition of process revealing an intimate and layered journey which embraces the essential qualities of the artists in making.
Mary Nunan in HAH 2010 | Single screen HD | 7'27'' HAH Reflecting concepts of live performance; audience/performer relationship, space and sensation and re-framing these concepts through filming and editing.
Nebula film still 2010 | Single Screen | 4'40 NEBULA The use of diffusion of light and detail removes the emphasis from body part, thereby highlighting movement.
Time... and again 2009 | SD Single Screen video | 8'40'' TIME...AND AGAIN The film highlights things past, present and draws attention to changing futures.
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