* Ann Maria Healy (Ireland)

Parapraxis

It’s a freestanding screen, leaned up against a concrete block, wider in width than it is in height. There’s a projection of a figure on the screen, roughly one third of the height of the viewer. The image is over exposed and the figure is partially covered by a bright yellow Selfridges bag. The figure stands in the pose that Tyra Banks uses to promote America’s next top model, it is held for the course of an hour. Glitches begin to occur in the video, the figure begins to dance the choreography from Beyoncé’s, ‘Run the World’ It’s danced in the same position by the same figure but it’s cut into the first shot of the figure holding the pose. Initially the choreography appears as glitches but as time passes the cuts lengthen and more of the choreography is visible. The video is looped; no beginning or end is visible.

Pink Haze

It's a looped video on a monitor at eye level. Flowers; darkened tulips, move back and fourth rhythmically. There is flesh also, the shot is close up so the entirety of the form cannot be seen. Pink bars; the shot is shaky and blurry, moving in and out of focus also close up so that the entirety of the form cannot be seen. Bog; seen from the ground, a hand enters the shot then enters the ground. Two hands dig and pull at the earth. Blurry pink bars come back into focus and hands dig deeper. Rhythmical flowers are being shoved to and fro into the camera by the flesh. Harsher more frantic movements prevail, shot from above; the hands are digging into solid ground to produce a rhythmical pounding of the earth.

I do not feel ashamed

A rectangular length of cream material is spread out on the floor. There is a conical pile of wheat on the material. Two stones rest near the wheat, one smaller than the other. A female figure wearing an orange dress kneels on the material next to the wheat and stones. She grinds the stones together whilst singing the 1990's pop song ‘bitch’ by Meredith Brooks. She never grinds the wheat just the stones. At stages she pulls the wheat behind her and balances from the material. She lies on the floor with the stone resting on her chest, singing. At intervals she sings, she breaks the song down, changing the rhythm and the structure of the song, she speaks it, and then whispers it. The performance lasts for eight hours.