Video
On the evening of 19th Sept 2014, Culture Night Ireland, video artists Dawn West and Moran Been-noon presented their works in
Scoby's Bar, Main Street, Hospital in conjunction with Hospital's first Festival of art & culture.
Moran Been-noon
Being There is a non-specific representation of an identity that is at the same time personal and political, foreign and local, present and absent. The footage is shot at several locations in Ireland and Israel, two countries in which I have specific interest.
In this project there is a depiction of real life moments when the routine act, such as those that make the base layer of each video, are disturbed; moments of sudden shifts in focus, when thoughts appear to remind one of the dissonance between identity and presence: This is not where I am from, these are not my problems, but how can I ignore them? Could I distance myself from my home and its problems? It could be said that these questions ask how much of my self-interest can shift when I relocate from the community which forms a part of my identity? The identities found in the project, both political and personal ones, are hidden in the layered content of each piece.
The investigation that led to the production of this series is of my ability to belong to political and social circumstances and allow them to belong to me.These issued are being raised by a foreigner who chooses her status, not a refugee or an immigrant’s child, they are an internal echo of my everyday actions.
Scoby's Bar, Main Street, Hospital in conjunction with Hospital's first Festival of art & culture.
Moran Been-noon
Being There is a non-specific representation of an identity that is at the same time personal and political, foreign and local, present and absent. The footage is shot at several locations in Ireland and Israel, two countries in which I have specific interest.
In this project there is a depiction of real life moments when the routine act, such as those that make the base layer of each video, are disturbed; moments of sudden shifts in focus, when thoughts appear to remind one of the dissonance between identity and presence: This is not where I am from, these are not my problems, but how can I ignore them? Could I distance myself from my home and its problems? It could be said that these questions ask how much of my self-interest can shift when I relocate from the community which forms a part of my identity? The identities found in the project, both political and personal ones, are hidden in the layered content of each piece.
The investigation that led to the production of this series is of my ability to belong to political and social circumstances and allow them to belong to me.These issued are being raised by a foreigner who chooses her status, not a refugee or an immigrant’s child, they are an internal echo of my everyday actions.
Dawn West
Seven Tales from Twenty Acres - This is a video I made for the third year of my Fine Art Printmaking course. The twenty acres in question are the small fields around my house in County Limerick, Ireland. The narrator is Seamus Meehan whose family have owned the land for three generations and whose memories and relationship with these fields make up the seven tales. I wanted to try and show the simple beauty of nature and how it intersects with our lives and memories.
Seven Tales from Twenty Acres - This is a video I made for the third year of my Fine Art Printmaking course. The twenty acres in question are the small fields around my house in County Limerick, Ireland. The narrator is Seamus Meehan whose family have owned the land for three generations and whose memories and relationship with these fields make up the seven tales. I wanted to try and show the simple beauty of nature and how it intersects with our lives and memories.
Seven Tales from Twenty Acres from Dawn West on Vimeo.