The Possibilities of Place was an interaction between myself and writer/ curator Julia Moustacchi that builds on a three-month living performance over the summer 2019. Across countries, myself, Irish in residence at The Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, and Julia, French living in Dublin, communicated through letters, telling each other places of ritual or shift in their lives to go explore. While visiting those locations that have a particular meaning for the other, both of them experienced it with the filter of otherness from being, no matter how familiar we can get to a culture, somehow foreign to this other country, city and places. Reflecting on the ‘in between’ space, this place of transition that opens up when being in contact of a foreign culture, we created a collaborative performance that focuses on the problematic of transition in time and space. I created a visual library through photographing scenes in Paris and pasting them to the studio wall building up a catalogue of new memories prompted by the vibrant layering of posters throughout the city of Paris. Julia created a spoken word piece working in time with my tearing down of the images gathered, leaving traces of the experience.
These performances took place at The Centre Cultural Irlandais Paris and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin