NIAMH SEANA MEEHAN
‘WORKING DOCUMENT | 9-5’

Niamh Seana Meehan’s performance will take the form of a workshop as performance with 6 participating artists. ‘Language as an investigate tool offers a dialogical approach to art making, it is fragmented, gestural and action based. Language can stretch into various guises, it can morph, it can re-assemble to create new modes of existence. It will question how this work acts as a performance?’

The workshop/performance will focus on working through and against how language can draft itself into messy spaces, spaces that reveal the process, the conversations, the things left invisible, the stumbles, the getting stuck, the moments of failure and the repetitive methods gathered.

Niamh Seana Meehan is a visual artist based in Northern Ireland.

‘I work in-between visual art, writing and performance. A central theme within my practice is the slippages involved within the translation of thought to text. Textual projects I create often want to jump off the page and form rhythms, movements, or patterns for repetition. These qualities become catalysts for discussion and by implementing performative methods it enables them to anticipate their narrative. Will they be a performance, an audio work, a sculpture or remain textual? On-going interests within my practice include ambiguity, nothingness, doubts, and failure.’

Image: Waiting for Directions

NINA OLTARZEWSKA
‘SUR LE BOUT DES LÈVRES’

Nina Oltarzewska’s performance draws inspiration from her lived experience, often referred to as ‘difficult emotions’. In this new work Oltarzewska will be revisiting the processes that led her to performance ‘the idea of conveying a message through text, as if too tender to be said’.

Nina Oltarzewska is a French artist born in 1998 and based in Belfast. Oltarzewska works with sound, video and performance as well as sculpture and installation. She grew up in France and moved to Belfast in 2017 to start a Foundation year in Art and Design at the Belfast School of Art. In July 2021 Oltarzewska completed her BA(Hons) Fine Art at the Belfast School of Art. She has since received five graduate awards from the following institutions: Bbeyond, Platform Arts, Pollen, the University of Atypical and PS2. She will be commencing a Fine Art Masters at the Chelsea School of Art and Design (UAL) in September 2022.