Anne Seagrave (Ireland/Spain) has presented her distinctive movement based performance/video/installation work internationally for over 20 years. She began performing solo in 1982 and her residency at NRLA 2007 marks her 25th anniversary of professional creative contribution to live art practice. She has won numerous awards including Best Experimental Art Film at the Kerry Film Festival 2002, four Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursaries, The Arts Foundation Live Art Fellowship 2002, and residency opportunities in Spain, Holland, Canada, UK, Poland, and Ireland. Until 2004 she was a regular visiting lecturer at NCAD Dublin, and freelance organiser of many live art events in Ireland. During 2006 she accepted invitations to perform in Israel, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Ireland, England, Finland, and Poland and she is currently based in Barcelona. Seagrave has an AHRC Research Fellowship at the University of Ulster in Belfast until January 2008 and is pursuing her own practice, touring and performing internationally, contributing to the Faculty of Arts, and conducting parallel investigations into artists’ use of self-image.
Jamais Vu
A one-hour daily performance, a staged self-portrait publicly erased by the artist herself during the 5 consecutive performances. First devised as a 7-minute loop performance (NRLA 2005), Jamais Vu has since developed intensely over an unprecedented 18 month process and has been performed internationally in mostly unconventional and independent art spaces. Now a 30-minute emotionally charged solo performance that is repeated twice during a one hour presentation as each day sees the reducing of elements until it has been all but completely erased.
Devised, composed, and performed by Anne Seagrave 2004. Video production by Fred Benoist. Initially devised during a residency at the Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain. Grant aided by the Arts Council of Ireland and the AHRB. Supported by AHRC Research Fellowship, University of Ulster.
Premiered for Cork 2005 European Cultural Capital. UK premiere: NRLA 2005.
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Why Me? Artists’ Use of Self-Image: an informal dialogue with the artist in residence. The public are invited to return to the performance space of Jamais Vu 30 minutes after the end of each presentation, to participate in conversation, and to exchange opinion and ideas.
‘The multiple shock effect of JAMAIS VU is without a doubt, the body in action of Anne Seagrave’
Brecha, Uruguay, 2006.
‘Aesthetically sophisticated, dynamically executed and a pleasure to look at’ www.spam.art.pl. Poland, 2005.
‘One of the most interesting figures in European performance art’ Gazeta Wyborcza, January 2000.
Anne Seagrave will be teaching at the Winter School, 2007. See www.newmoves.co.uk.
photos by Manuel Vason