A workshop that explores audio-visual immersive installations, with a special emphasis on embodiment and multi-sensory engagement. Jane will share insights from her recent community-based projects that involve collaboration with adults who have intellectual disabilities. Additionally, artists from Arts Alive will be present to discuss their current collaborative project with Jane, which focuses on using microcontrollers to create tactile musical performance instruments.
Jane and Arts Alive are supported by The Galway International Arts Festival Elevate grant and the Create Artists in the Community Scheme
This session is run in collaboration with Arts in Action.
Biography
Jane Cassidy is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator from Galway. Trained in music and visual art, Cassidy earned a Masters in Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin and an MFA in Digital Art from Tulane University in New Orleans. Her work spans installation, video, music composition and electronics to create immersive audio-visual environments. Cassidy's main interest lies in multi-sensory work and creating a sense of synesthesia for the viewer, most often in response to the mysticism of nature.
Cassidy has had solo shows at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Pallas Projects Dublin; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama; the University of New Orleans, Louisiana; and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan. She most recently collaborated with Bru Theatre on Somnium as part of the Galway International Arts Festival and with That's Life on their Sound Nest project at Nuns Island Theatre. www.janecassidy.net
Arts Alive is a community-based arts programme in Galway City. They provide an innovative programme of arts training where young adults with an intellectual disability can focus on both personal and artistic development. Arts Alive recently toured their multimedia exhibition Identity to Nuns Island Theatre, Baboro Festival and Mart Gallery in Dublin.
