Beyond the fringe-something worth seeing

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday October 24, 2006 14:13 by FF

A once off chance to see contemporary Ireland given the thrashing it deserves

Here are the details of a once off performance piece by acclaimed actor Dylan Tighe

The Museum of Fraudulent Identity
Presents
Mise Éire (I am Ireland ): a Performance by Dylan Tighe for 3 performers, ethnographic artefacts and documentary archives

“the effect was extraordinary….we had witnessed a unique performance of extreme intensity and power. Excellent”.
Geraldine Pilgrim, Board Member, National Review of Live Art ( UK )
Tuesday 31st October , 8pm.
Project Arts Centre, Essex Street , Dublin 2,
Tickets : 10/8 Euro
Mise Éire is a human exhibit. Inhabiting a live installation, ( and involving considerable alcohol consumption) the subjects perform a perverse ritual of sublimation and repetition. The event fuses installation, documentary archives and performance to expose our identities as fraudulent, and often, beyond our control.
This Performance couples the excavation of cultural and political stereotypes, both from within and without, with the serious exposé of alternative historical narratives and of the traumatic ‘truth’ that lies behind both personal and national mythologies.
The event will be followed by a discussion with the artist.
Dylan Tighe is an interdisciplinary artist from Dublin currently based in London . Studied at Trinity College , Dublin , University of Bologna and Goldsmiths College , London . His work examines constructs of identity, political mythologies and individual complicity in these constructs. Rejecting the neatly packaged niceties of much contemporary art he mines the potential of live performance for direct communication and confrontation about serious matters of social and political relevance.
The Museum of Fraudulent Identity is a travelling, temporal museum. It is dedicated to the exposition of cultural artefacts and social practices which constitute the mythology of identity. This, its inaugural event, will provide an ethnographic portrait of the individual’s struggle within the confines of political and national identity.

Concept, Design: Dylan Tighe. Performers: Dylan Tighe, Barbara Kukovec, Helen Schoene Information: [email protected]/ 087 9547691