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Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty are artists living and working in the North West of Ireland. They use performance, video, sound installation and storytelling, along with a detailed research process, to convey visions of transience and resistance.
Their current work examines official and folk narratives of progress and nostalgia, complacency and solidarity, romance and pragmatism, as part of an ongoing search for moments of unrealised potential in history. A dialogue between these ideas is enacted through the collaborative process, often taking the form of conversational storytelling.
A Collection of Disarticulated Bones is a new project that traverses centres of knowledge in the US, UK and Europe in order to unpick different foundation myths of the Global North: institutional, pop cultural and embodied. This long-term project examines how decisions relating to preservation and presentation of histories can shape national and individual identities, in the context of imperialism, late capitalism, rising ethnonationalism and polarised public debate on both sides of the Atlantic.
A Collection of Disarticulated Bones is part of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts in 2024, with an installation at Galway City Museum continuing to December 31. As part of the Centre for Creative Technologies' Art X Residency, this work also toured to Solas Nua, Washington D.C. and Virginia Tech New Music + Technology Festival.
