Re-Birth and Re-verse
TULCA Festival of Visual Art, 2017
Curated by Matt Paker
McGibbon O'Lynn production
Visual Art by Siobhan McGibbon
Audio script written by Maeve O'Lynn
Voice by Susan Davey
Sound by Frank Murphy
TULCA Festival of Visual Art, 2017
Curated by Matt Paker
McGibbon O'Lynn production
Visual Art by Siobhan McGibbon
Audio script written by Maeve O'Lynn
Voice by Susan Davey
Sound by Frank Murphy
Re-Birth and Re-Verse is a Xenothorpian therapy designed to actively engage participants as they mutate with tunicates, our closest living invertebrate. Through an audio meditation, the participants are guided through a proprioceptive induction as they transcend from human to Xenothorpian.
Commissioned for They Call Us The Screamers (2017), TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Matt Packer. The work uses Jenny James book on Atlantis, a radical primal therapy commune, based West of Ireland in the 1970s as a reference point to think about the contemporary crisis.
In many ways, Atlantis and Xenophon are intertwined. The members of Atlantis rejected modernity and sought an alternative way of life through self-sufficient farming, collective living and 'de-programming' through psychotherapeutic exercises. Their history is one of anti-modernism, cultural withdrawal, primal voice, and self-enlightenment. The Xenothorpians engage with these notions directly and indirectly through narratives that explore alternative and modes of living, closely connected to concepts of de-evolution, mutating with ancient relatives and returning to the watery depths from which we came.
Visual Art created by Siobhan McGibbon
Script written by Maeve O’Lynn
Commissioned for They Call Us The Screamers (2017), TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Matt Packer. The work uses Jenny James book on Atlantis, a radical primal therapy commune, based West of Ireland in the 1970s as a reference point to think about the contemporary crisis.
In many ways, Atlantis and Xenophon are intertwined. The members of Atlantis rejected modernity and sought an alternative way of life through self-sufficient farming, collective living and 'de-programming' through psychotherapeutic exercises. Their history is one of anti-modernism, cultural withdrawal, primal voice, and self-enlightenment. The Xenothorpians engage with these notions directly and indirectly through narratives that explore alternative and modes of living, closely connected to concepts of de-evolution, mutating with ancient relatives and returning to the watery depths from which we came.
Visual Art created by Siobhan McGibbon
Script written by Maeve O’Lynn
