02 February 2022, 6pm - 7.30pm
Visual artist Naomi Sex presents a new experimental, one-off live event comprising of original and sampled scripted material, a video-based scenographic backdrop, a collection of prop-objects and a live actor.
Scene 3. Super Ordinary is an excerpt from a larger scripted performance and body of research, produced with the support of the Arts Council Bursary Award.
The scene is set in a massive a one-stop shop – a Harvey Norman, a Tesco, or a Home Store + More. Our character Methods Man stumbles into a tiny section of the store where things are between states of display, storage, or dumping. There is a looping, quasi-infomercial relaying and repeating on several flatscreens. Methods Man has a strong instinct to go on autopilot, interact in some way; however, his timing or his footing is off. He circles around a circuit of prop-like objects that occupy the space. They are familiar – before he could handle these objects with a level of confidence, a level of expertise even; he could demonstrate their use to anyone who cared to notice. In this instance, his memory and faculties are not serving him well. He tells himself; it should come easily if he just makes a start…
Free Space at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios creates the opportunity for artists to access space in the city for peer learning, artist exchanges, project development and presentations.
The event runs from 6pm – 7.30pm and is viewable in 15-minute time slots.
Naomi Sex is a Dublin-based visual artist. She writes scripts, directs actors and produces theatrical, gallery-based events. She was awarded the Arts Council of Ireland’s Visual Art Project Award, 2013, and the Dublin City Council’s Incubation Space Award for The Synchronised Lecture Series, a pioneering, performative event that featured in nine key Irish educational institutions simultaneously.
In 2014, she was selected for the Artist in Residency Program at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) where she presented performance work at The Project Space and curated the 6iX Degrees event. In 2016, she produced a touring performance entitled Cheek By Jowl which was awarded the Arts Council Visual Arts Touring and Dissemination Award and the Fingal County Council Artist’s Work Scheme. The performance toured to Limerick City Gallery, Crawford Art Gallery, and completed the tour at IMMA. In 2017, Naomi presented a solo exhibition entitled Surface and Silence at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
She has lectured for many years in various institutions and is now a permanent Lecturer in the Fine Art Department at the Dublin School of Creative Arts (TU Dublin). In 2019, she was awarded the Arts Council Bursary Award to develop a new body of research around scenographic processes and performative practices.
Image: Naomi Sex, Scene 3 – Super Ordinary, Production still, featuring Sean McDonagh, 2022
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