POLLENATE

A collaborative performance/installation exhibtion, between James King and Sandra Corrigan Breathnach. 

Connotations of the dark and the light through the visual language of natural materials and presence, intimating balance in contrast and through an understanding of the in-between in experience and in nature and the wider context of interplay and integration of energy between the physical and meta physical forces. Investigating the proposition that apparent opposites can be complementary and mutually sustaining, a coming together a sharing and exchange.

This exhibition is the result of a lengthy Pollenation process between Artists James King and Sandra Corrigan Breathnach. Their contrasting channels of consciousness and separate archetypal sources merged together, which through development and process, a sharing of ideas blossomed, culminating in the Exhibition, Pollenate.

The process began through a sharing of poetry which later developed into an extensive recorded interchange, both voicing intuitive phonemes and snippets of vocal sound over a long period of time, developed by sonically manipulating and expanding the vocal exchanges to create a Sound piece, subsequently interwoven with video (Pollenate #1). Sounds for two other videos one of which is an animation, are the result of a postal interchange over many months in which the artists created extended abstract poems, alternating verse, each making a response to the other, deconstructing and reconstructing the language.

The Exhibition comprised, Live Performance Installation, Photographic Prints, Video/Sound Works, Animation together with sculptural elements.

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

GALLERY 1 |

Photographic Prints – Photography James King & Sandra Corrigan Breathnach – Editing Sandra Corrigan Breathnach

Sand Circle – Sourced from Lisfannon – Donegal – by James King & Sandra Corrigan Breathnach

GALLERY 2 |

Video 1 / Sound Piece – Pollenate #1 – Videography James King & Sandra Corrigan Breathnach – Editing Sandra Corrigan Breathnach

GALLERY 3 |

Photographic Prints – Pollenation #1 – #4 – Photography – James King & Sandra Corrigan Breathnach – Editing Sandra Corrigan Breathnach

Video 2 – Pollenate #2 – Videography James King & Sandra Corrigan Breathnach – Editing Sandra Corrigan Breathnach | Sound Element – Poem – James King & Sandra Corrigan Breathnach – Editing Sandra Corrigan Breathnach |

Video 3 – Pollenate #3 – Animation – Sandra Corrigan Breathnach | Sound Element – Poem James King & Sandra Corrigan Breathnach

Plinth – Irish Quartz – Sandra Corrigan Breathnach – Bog Oak – Sourced James King

The Quartz was chosen by Corrigan Breathnach for its ancient links, sourced in Glendalough kindly given by Ann Fitzpatrick the Conservation Ranger in the Wicklow Mountains National Park Ireland.

The Bog Oak was dug out of a raised bed in Falmore, in the Inishowne Peninsula, Donegal, carved by the artist Declan Clarke.

VIDEO CREDITS | POLLENATE – LIVE PERFORMANCE FOOTAGE – RORY MCSWIGGAN | EXHIBTIION FOOTAGE – SANDRA CORRIGAN BREATHNACH | EDITING – SANDRA CORRIGAN BREATHNACH – 2016