sleepwalker no. 1 is a 2-channel video and performance installation, with improvised digital score, utilizing one actress on screen and one live. It premiered in March, 2012, at TDC, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland. The actresses were Roisin O’Gorman and Mairin Prendergast and the score was created by Frances Heery.
The work is a collaborative attempt to build a portal that will serve as an entrance into memory, or a new space, like memory, but concrete and present, built from the materials of projected film, actors and an improvised audio environment.
Journal Entry, 2012:
“After working on Beckett for a period of time, particularly thorough performing in Krapp's Last Tape, I became interested in memory, identity, language, and the loss and decay of these entities—as well as physical decay—the changing of objects over time—their ongoing molecular shift into other states of being.
An object whose purpose existed no more, still might retain the ghost of the purpose floating somewhere, unseen. How could we bring that which is unseen or unseeable into a space—a real space.
It seemed that the conflict between the nature of film and theatre provided a place where an ignition could take place in the minds of the audience in a real space in real time. I've referred to it as a portal, but it could also be the surface of a lake, a skin. The surface molecules retain a connection, however distant, to what lies beneath.”