Ritual Dream of The Shaman (2019)
Six channel video projection mapping installation
Run time (18min) 

Ritual Dream of the Shaman is a six-channel video installation, using video projection mapping to allow presentation on screens and surfaces of varying scales and materials. The original soundtrack is a composition written and performed by Irish writer, folklorist, experimental archaeologist, and musician Billy Mag Fhloinn, who also features as the shaman. Contemporary dance artist Isabella Oberlander also features in the work, as Elen of the Thresholds, a figure which appears on the threshold or crossroads, as a harbinger of change.

Thematically the work explores ritual and its reinvention, as a means of reconnection with  a sense of the sacred within the natural world. Re-imagined and reinvented actions are used to access deep memory, individual and cultural. The piece is informed by the theories on generative myth-making of Pierre-Yves Jacobin and Jungian ideas on the active imagination. In this context, ritual is explored within the work as a means to reimagine lost traditions, threshold spaces and the liminal. 

The work was first shown in The Luan Gallery, Athlone from June-August (2019). In addition to the video, the installation also includes found and 3D printed artefacts, related to the performances on screen.

Images below from installation in the Luan Gallery Athlone (2019) and at the Mountshannon Arts Festival (2021).

Luan Catalogue