performancewriting

by Aodán McCardle

‘Truth   Fact’  A Pound of Feathers curated by Wild Swans; Ireland, Spain, Puerto Rico

Improvised and Collaborative Performance Art/Writing responding to theme ‘A Pound of Feathers’. A collaborative conversation over a period of time considering the theme and considering performance itself which generated and moulded individual performances. Films shown in RCC on Culture Night Sep21 and full exhibition and performances scheduled for RCC May 2022 

The Everyday: FearLoveFear              Artlink Members Show     Curator Rita McMahon

It is now understood that we genetically inherit the experiences of our predecessors as a bodily memory, fear may be as trustworthy as love. The contingency is within the action of doing.

Photo of Aodán McCardle

BIO: Aodán’s current practice is improvised performance/writing/drawing. His PhD is on ‘Action as Articulation of the Contemporary Poem’ though physicality and doubt are the site of meaning and the stance respectively where the action operates. He opened the Performance Month at Beton7, Athens 2015, and the Performance Philosophy Centre Uni. of Surrey Sep 2016. He was a member of the anti-performance group LUC, London Under Construction and the Collaborative/Improvisational Performance group Cuislí.

Three books of poetry, Shuddered and ISing from Veer Books and most recently just out Small Increments from Beirbua Press plus an online chapbook LllOoVvee, Smithereens Press. New book of long poems/scores for performance that lean into the concrete and sonic elements of language coming this summer from Veer Books, based around issues of censorship and power structures. Recent critical work in A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric on the poetry of Maurice Scully, Shearsman 2020, and in Hilson Hilson, Crater Press, on the Organ Music poems of Jeff Hilson. What Happens If A Poem is About Nothing? On the poetry of William Rowe, Esla (English Studies in Latin America; A Journal of Cultural and Literary Criticism, No.28 January 2025 https://ojs.uc.cl/index.php/esla/issue/view/3820

663 Reasons Why; What Might Seem Extreme on the poetry of Stephen Mooney. Enclave Review No 18, Contemporary and Modern Art Magazine, Ireland, Eds. Fergal Gaynor and Ed Krĉma, 2024

Current Project is a series of paintings and a series of etchings using dynamics from within Performance, improvisation as a mode of investigation and immersion in a subject and environment, and considering ‘experience’ in Twombly’s terms as our most intimate form of commonality. The works are a residue of these performances rather than simply an object of desire.