Who Knows That I Live Here With You (forthcoming 2027), three channel 4K video with surround sound and live performance
Who Knows That I Live Here With You is an interdisciplinary work with three-channel film installation and live performance, where we meet a group of young people trapped and under threat by an unseen presence within the house where they live. They become aware of a hidden “monster” permeating their home and destroying its structural integrity. This work is concerned with the profound spatial injustices that produce urban dwellings as a kind of trap or confinement, with a focus on the deeply urgent issues of housing precarity and hidden homelessness.
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.
This work was developed in collaboration with theatre director John King, cultural geographer Prof. Karen Till (Maynooth University), writer Finbarr Doyle and movement choreographer Rajinder Singh. The live performance is currently being developed in collaboration with performance director Vlad Gurdis and a group of young people with Creative Places Mac Uíllíam.
Cast of three-channel film: Aisling Doyle, Sive Doyle, Dearbhla Boyle and Ruadhán Boyle.
Film surround sound design and special effects are by Jamie Lemoine of Pond Studios. Original score by Greg O’Brien.
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.
