Michelle Deignan

February 20 to February 26 2024

How is the weather?

Single channel HD video, 51 secs, 2024

January 2 to January 8 2024

01/01/24, 24/01/01

Single channel HD video, 1 min 19 secs, 2024

January 24 to January 30 2023

Let us play

Single channel HD video, 1 min, 2023

November 15 to November 2022

Walk with me (for Dettie)

Single channel HD video, 8 mins 50 secs, 2022

September 27 to October 4

Closed on Monday

Single channel HD video, 45 secs, 2022

September 13 to September 20

Seaside

Single channel HD video, 1 min 48 secs, 2022

July 5 to July 12

Colossal Uprising

Single channel HD video, 1 min 20 secs, 2022

June 21 to June 28

Something Blue, Something White and Something Red

Digital photographs, Bourg Argental, France, 2022

May 24 to May 31

Old Power

Digital photograph, London, 2022

April 26 to May 3

It’s refocus time

Single channel HD video, 46 secs, 2022

March 8 to March 15

Partition

Single channel HD video, 1 min 13 secs, 2022

March 7 to March 8

Intravenous Antibiotics 5.45am

Meds 6.30am

Walk and toilet 6.35am

Call home 7.45am

Breakfast 8am

Toilet, Body and teeth Wash 9.15am

Walk around circular corridor 9.45am

Sleep 10am

Toilet 11am

Meds 12.30

Lunch 12.30

Visitor 1pm

Toilet 1.30pm

Walk around circular corridor 2pm

Exercises 2.30pm

Intravenous Antibiotics 3pm 

Film out of window 3.15pm

Sleep 3.30pm

Meds 5.30pm

Dinner 6pm

Call home 7.30pm

Walk around circular corridor 8pm

Exercises 8.30pm

Toilet and wash teeth 9pm

Sleep 9.30pm

Wake 11.30pm

Toilet 11.45pm

Sleep 12.30am

Wake 2.30am

Toilet 2.45am

Sleep 3am

Vitals Checked at 5.30am 

March 1 to March 8

Reading Material

Single channel HD video, 46 secs, 2022

February 8 to February 15

Final Test

Single channel HD video, 1′ 38″, 2022

December 14 to January 4

Together Apart

Single channel HD video, 1′ 15″, 2021

November 30 to December 7

Seeing through rainbows

Single channel HD video, 1′ 05″, 2021

November 23 to November 30

Get Comfortable

Single channel HD video, 42″, 2021

November 2 to November 9

And then it works (made possible by Manuela Morgaine’s SCRATCH THE WORLD)

Single channel HD video, 45″, 2021

September 28 to October 5

Paint the world in gold

Single channel HD video, 59″, 2021

September 21 to September 28

They say knowledge is power

Single channel HD video, 34″, 2021

August 24 to August 31

There you are

Single channel HD video, 1′ 12″, 2021

June 29 to July 6

Circular Cruise

Single channel HD video, 1′ 22″, 2021

June 15 to June 22

Near and Far

Single channel HD video, 1′ 05″, 2021

May 18 to May 25

Flying in the face of friction

Single channel HD video, 1′ 08″, 2021

April 20 to April 27

Got to stop to look down

Single channel HD video, 1′ 47″, 2021

April 13 to April 20

Tired

Single channel HD video, 2″ 29″, 2021

March 16 to March 23

Rocks

Single channel HD video, 1″ 04″, 2021

March 8 to March 16

March 8th

Single channel HD video, 2″ 16″, 2021

March 2 to March 8

Rattled

Single channel HD video, 30″, 2021

February 16 to February 23

No words

Single channel HD video, 1′ 13″, 2021

February 9 to February 16

Breakdown

Single Channel HD Video, 46 secs, 2021

February 2 to February 9

Bread Week

Single channel, HD video, 1 min, 2021

January 26 to February 2

Where do I begin?

Single channel, HD video, 2 min 15 secs 2021

January 19 to January 26

Looking south

Single channel, HD video, 1 min 2021

January 5 to January 12

Now that we have made our wishes

Single channel, HD video, 1 min 15 secs, 2021

December 15 to December 22

Wings

Single channel, HD video, 1 min 33 secs, 2020

December 1 to December 7

Birthday Tree

Single channel, HD video, 30 secs, 2020

November 24 to December 1

No Defence

Single channel, HD video, 2 mins 7 secs, 2020

November 10 to November 17

Next Move

Digital photograph, 2020

November 3 to November 10

Room 13

Single channel HD video, 1 min 25 secs, 2020

October 27 to November 3

Take That

Single channel HD video, 39 secs, 2020

October 20 to October 27

Will we ever bridge the gulf between us?

Single channel HD video, 1 min 12 secs, 2020

October 13 to October 20

The Truth

Single channel HD video, 1 min 50 secs, 2020

October 6 to October 13

We have come too far to leave it all behind

Single channel HD video, 1 min 40 secs, 2020

September 22 to September 29

One day in England

Single channel HD video, 1 min 2 secs, 2020

September 15 to September 22

Sandwich

Single Channel HD video, 1 min 4 secs, 2020

September 8 to September 15

Monocular

Single Channel HD video, 1 min 45 secs, 2020

September 1 to September 8

Everyone is home

Single Channel HD video, 1 min 2 secs, 2020

August 18 to August 31

Somewhere

Single Channel HD video, 1 min 12 secs, 2020

August 4 to August 11

Stick stick stick stick, sticky sticky stick stick

Single Channel HD video, 1 min 10 secs, 2020

July 21 to July 28

1, 2, 3, 4

Single Channel HD video, 29 secs, 2020

July 14 to July 21

Feedback

Single channel HD video, 1 min 20 secs, 2020

 

 

July 7 to July 14

Sunday

Single channel HD video, 30 secs, 2020.

 

 

June 30 to July 7

The Wait

Single channel HD video, 3 mins 25 secs, 2020.

 

 

June 23 to June 30

Just a Minute

Single channel HD video, 1 min 15 secs, 2020.

 

 

June 16 to June 23

Saturday

Single channel HD video, 49 secs, 2020.

 

 

 

POLYPHONIC MANIFESTO

I followed a link from my Facebook feed to an article in Frieze Magazine titled ‘Kara Walker on the Post-Lockdown World‘, 26 May 2020.

It’s a wonderfully reflective piece of writing responding to the topic ‘Exactitude’, a theme from Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium’ (1988).

Under her heading ‘I/me/mine’ Kara wrote:

“Witnessing trauma acts on the body in specific ways. The Event itself creates gaping holes in the fabric of the normal, and lucky survivors patch those holes with questions: ‘What do I do?’ ‘Where do I go?’ To be the witness, from afar, of death or destruction means you’re at the mercy of your senses; you have the choice of turning away from or towards the scene.”

So here we are, turning both towards and away from the scene. revolving at different times and speed, with twirls, pauses, stutters and falls. Rotating and looking, listening, tasting, reflecting, dismantling, rebuilding, acting and reacting.

Here, ‘I/me/mine’ is not twisted into ‘we/us/our’. Here, ‘I/me/mine’ is both multiplied and amplified by ‘with’.

 

 

June 2 to June 9

Capturing it

Single channel HD video, 2 mins 17 secs, 2020.

 

 

May 26 to June 2

Blowing it

Single channel HD video, 38 secs, 2020.

 

 

May 19 to May 26

Matching Pairs

Single channel HD video, 1 min 27 secs, 2020.

 

 

May 12 to May 19

There is always the Sun

Single channel HD video, 3 mins 36 secs, 2020.

 

 

May 5 to May 12

Almost

Single Channel HD video, 1 min 40 secs, 2020.

Michelle Deignan is an Irish artist and filmmaker based in London. She makes moving image, photographic and print works, for gallery exhibition, for cinema and for other screening contexts. These works critically examine the production and dissemination of culture now and historically, touching on subjects such as local and international identity, nationalism, feminism, class politics and aesthetics. Many of her works have looked at the depiction and comprehension of public space and landscape.

Michelle’s work has been screened and exhibited in international venues such as Whitechapel Art Gallery; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Tramway, Glasgow; Camden Arts Centre, London ; Media Art Lab, Moscow; Irish Film Institute, Dublin; Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Crawford Gallery, Cork; Konstall Malmo; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and CAN, Neuchatel. Her work has been supported by Arts Council Ireland, Culture Ireland, Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust. Her moving image work is distributed by LUX.