Photography by Gerard McCarthy, courtesy of The Triskel Arts Centre
XENOPHON: UBI TUNC VOX INAUDITAE MELODIAE? ET VOX LINGUAE?, 2018
Found objects, animation, foam, wax, unreal clay, hair
McGibbon O'Lynn production
Visual Art created by Siobhan McGibbon
Audio script and poetry by Maeve O'Lynn
Found objects, animation, foam, wax, unreal clay, hair
McGibbon O'Lynn production
Visual Art created by Siobhan McGibbon
Audio script and poetry by Maeve O'Lynn
LAZARUS SLEPT AND RESTED, THEN ROSE, 2018
Mixed media animation
McGibbon O'Lynn production
Visual art created by Siobhan McGibbon
Audio script written by Maeve O'Lynn
Mixed media animation
McGibbon O'Lynn production
Visual art created by Siobhan McGibbon
Audio script written by Maeve O'Lynn
UBI TUNC VOX INAUDITAE MELODIAE? ET VOX LINGUAE?, 2018 is a fully integrated narrative, audio, and sculptural installation. This activation of the world of Xenophon functions as a form of enquiry with multiple access points to Xenothorpian communication, ceremony and ways of knowing.
The title of the exhibition is taken from German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath, Hildegard Von Bingen's, Lingua Ignota, one of the first invented languages created for unknown purposes. Maximalist, feminist, enigmatic and symbolic, the installation evokes the voice Von Bingen to call forth visions of a more-than-human future.
In this scenario, the Xenothorpians invite the audience to communicate with them through play, chant, movement, poetry, visuals and non-lexical song. Through their mutations with colonial hydractinia echinatas, McGibbon mediates the problem of othering, challenging the possibility of a world where new species, cultures and languages collide and merge.
The work was created in response to research in REMEDI, the regenerative medicine institute.
The title of the exhibition is taken from German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath, Hildegard Von Bingen's, Lingua Ignota, one of the first invented languages created for unknown purposes. Maximalist, feminist, enigmatic and symbolic, the installation evokes the voice Von Bingen to call forth visions of a more-than-human future.
In this scenario, the Xenothorpians invite the audience to communicate with them through play, chant, movement, poetry, visuals and non-lexical song. Through their mutations with colonial hydractinia echinatas, McGibbon mediates the problem of othering, challenging the possibility of a world where new species, cultures and languages collide and merge.
The work was created in response to research in REMEDI, the regenerative medicine institute.
