ICAT Playdate — A Collection of Disarticulated Bones

Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are collaborative artists living and working between counties Sligo and Leitrim in Ireland. They use performance, video, sound installation and storytelling, along with a detailed research process, to convey visions of transience and resistance. Their recent work tests the possibility of creating a new narrative identity for Ireland that will acknowledge our struggles, admit our complicities and build our capacity for solidarity.

A Collection of Disarticulated Bones is a new body of work that traverses centers of knowledge in the US, UK and Europe in order to unpick different foundation myths of the Global North: institutional, pop cultural and embodied. This long-term research project examines how decisions relating to preservation and presentation can shape national and individual identities, in the context of imperialism, late capitalism, rising ethno-nationalism and polarized public debate on both sides of the Atlantic.

This research has been supported in its development by Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Project Arts Centre and the Arts Council of Ireland. A Collection of Disarticulated Bones is touring as a new audiovisual performance to Virginia Tech New Music + Technology Festival and Solas Nua organization for Irish contemporary arts in Washington D.C. in Fall 2024. This work will be presented as an off-site exhibition at Galway City Museum in Ireland as part of Tulca festival of visual arts in November 2024, curated by Michele Horrigan.