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Beyond Survival Expert [wooden cock]
2022
Photography
45.5 x 63 cm Framed / 42 x 57 Unframed
Edition of 10
€681 Framed / €568 Unframed (includes 13.5% VAT)
'Beyond Survival Expert [wooden cock]' is an image from the larger series Beyond Survival Expert, which centres the main protagonist from Herlihy’s docufilm Beyond Survival.
This series of work is an indigestible mash-up of mainstream survival television, fucking-frenzy naturist collectives and anti-sodomy laws legislated under the title ‘Crimes Against Nature’. Tempered by the exaggerated nature of survivalist figures and their excessive performances of non-essential survival, the protagonist of the docu-film transforms into numerous characters, ranging from a cameo as a cis-heterosexual survivalist to a stern warning from a queer environmental activist. Adopting the cinematic stylisation of survival documentaries, Beyond Survival uses numerous cameras to emphasise feigned solitude and satirically leans into confessional soliloquies employed by handheld cameras.
By situating itself in a natural landscape, Beyond Survival emphasises how an alternative vision of natural phenomena can de-centre the rigid social order and thus, provide us with new ways of living beyond immediate survival.
Léann Herlihy (they/them) is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin.
Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist and abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploys alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops and radical pedagogies.
Rigorously and creatively critiquing the positioning of Otherness in a heteronormative society, Léann actively transgresses beyond 'Other' as another tick-box option to choose from and moves to explore the generative capacity of collective engagement and resistance when we abolish colonial and capitalist prescriptions of personhood, the body and gender.
Léann Herlihy is the recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award [2022], Visual Arts Bursary [2021] & Agility Award [2021 - 2022] as well as being awarded a Project Studio [2021-22] at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Léann is Dublin Fringe Festival’s Next Stage Wildcard.
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