42 x 57.3 cm [unframed]

About artist: Léann Herlihy (they/them) is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin. Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist and abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploys alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops and radical pedagogies. Rigorously and creatively critiquing the positioning of Otherness in a heteronormative society, Léann actively transgresses beyond 'Other' as another tick-box option to choose from and moves to explore the generative capacity of collective engagement and resistance when we abolish colonial and capitalist prescriptions of personhood, the body and gender. Employing a methodology of interdisciplinary collaboration, their practice actively de-centres the author and strives for multiplicity over a single narrative. Through this methodology, time and space become shared communal resources between an array of individuals as the parameters of individualism are resisted through a process of imagining how a collective might begin to live Otherwise. Léann Herlihy is the recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award [2022], Visual Arts Bursary [2021] & Agility Award [2021 - 2022] as well as being awarded a Project Studio [2021-22] at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Léann is Dublin Fringe Festival’s Next Stage Wildcard.
About artwork: Beyond Survival Expert [wooden cock]' is an image from the larger series 'Beyond Survival Expert’ which centres the main protagonist from Herlihy’s docu-film ‘Beyond Survival’. This series of work is an indigestible mash-up of mainstream survival television, fucking-frenzy naturist collectives and anti-sodomy laws legislated under the title ‘Crimes Against Nature’. Tempered by the exaggerated nature of survivalist figures and their excessive performances of non-essential survival, the protagonist of the docu-film transforms into numerous characters, ranging from a cameo as a cis-heterosexual survivalist to a stern warning from a queer environmental activist. Adopting the cinematic stylization of survival documentaries, ‘Beyond Survival’ uses numerous cameras to emphasise feigned solitude and satirically leans into confessional soliloquies employed by handheld cameras. By situating itself in a natural landscape, ‘Beyond Survival’ emphasises how an alternative vision of natural phenomena can de-centre the rigid social order and thus, provide us with new ways of living beyond immediate survival. Framing can be arranged upon request to the artist after the auction.
Website: https://www.leannherlihy.com
Instagram: @leannherlihy
Edition: Yes; 1 of 10

Excellent Condition

120mm film photograph printed on 295gsm, archival cotton

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