Who Knows That I Live Here With You (forthcoming), three channel 4K video with surround sound and live performance
I am in the post-production stages of a new multi-disciplinary work which was developed in collaboration with theatre director John King, cultural geographer Prof. Karen Till (Maynooth University), writer Finbarr Doyle and movement choreographer Rajinder Singh.
Who Knows That I Live Here With You is a work that draws on my own family’s experience of a 8-year period of hidden homelessness, while creating awareness of the global campaign to recognise adequate and affordable housing as a human right. Currently in Ireland there are many examples of chronic spatial injustices that produce urban dwellings as a kind of trap or confinement, reducing people’s self-worth and making them feel insignificant, powerless and small.
My ambition for this work is to create possibilities for children and young people to be empowered by their unique perspective and ways of interacting with their spatial environment, and to find their own voice in this urgent conversation. Through the fusion of film, live performance, participatory installation and the dialogue between these media, innovative spatial relationships are created whereby solidarity and collective action allow the children to break free of the “monster” that makes housing precarity their reality.
Film surround sound design and special effects are by Jamie Lemoine of Pond Studios. The live art performance is being created in collaboration with theatre maker Martha Knight and production designer Julia Benedict.
Cast: Aisling Doyle, Sive Doyle, Dearbhla Boyle and Ruadhán Boyle.
Film production team: cameras and lighting, Berta Mars and Rory McLaughlin; location sound recording, Atlanta Ernst Hennessy; wardrobe design, Ellen Andrade; makeup artist, Daisy Keogh; production design, Julia Benedict; set construction, TC Kaye.
Film production made possible with the support of Studio 14 and Griffith College Dublin.
The development of this project was supported by The Arts Council.
