Eight Rooms 
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
September 2005

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.

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> Collaborators include Kieran O'Connell (film), Maire O'Laoghaire (voice), Zander Olsen (photography)
> Supported by the Irish Arts Council, UCL Graduate Research Fund and Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary
> Triskel Arts Centre: http://www.triskelartscentre.ie/