13.5 x 10.5 framed

Description:: Sinéad Keogh is an emerging multimedia performance installation artist and curator with a MA in Fine – Art from NCAD (National College of Art and Design) in Dublin. Through the use of synesthetic installation, the artist balances ideologies of intensification of the senses leading to immersive and often emotional experiences communicated through dance, character performance and synched video to sound. The core of these experiences lies between simultaneous storytelling and experimental abstraction exuding surreal fantasy. Keogh's practice undertakes conceptions of Gothic resplendence, fantasy narratives, desire and gender presentation / manipulations as a form of gender alchemy. Catalysts for Keogh's practice include the Irish landscape, Greek mythology, folklore and queer feminist histories. Keogh has had many exhibitions in Dublin institutions such as The Broadcast Gallery, IMMA, and The Lab and exhibited internationally in New York, Italy and New Zealand. Keogh has made work for festivals such as BIFPA and The Bram Stoker Festival. Keogh is also the founder, director and curator of Soul Noir: Festival of the Dark Arts, a Dublin based festival for the Gothic arts (2017 – present). "Please do not rip up Queer cultural magazines" is a GCN that was in my previous place of work where I held the role of janitor. I brought in culture magazines each month for the cafeteria and on a day I was out this magazine was ripped up and put into an open top bin which I had to empty as part of my duties. I taped it back together and put it back out to protest this homophobic action. The result was that my boss at the time took it away and told me that it made people uncomfortable. He said that he would enroll the staff in an in - house sensitivity workshop which never materialised. I asked for the magazine back to bring home and I have felt a duty to protect it since that time. I consider the action of reconstructing the magazine with a direct anti - homophobia message as a political action - and I consider the act of selling it to raise money with all proceeds to support Outhouse one too.
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