2 MAy 2013: During Louise Ward’s 7-day residency “Insert Emoticon” at Market Studios in Dublin she created random interactions with the audience and performed actions integrating sculptural objects & sound with invited guests and the public. CTVR Director Linda Doyle, Senior Researcher Tim Forde and PhD student and artist Jessica Foley were invited in to a conversational wide-ranging discussion about cognitive radio. The discussion was broadcast live on radio al cabira (www.radioalcabira.com) and can be downloaded from here (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/32253903).
The discussion was used as the basis for CTVR’s weekly writing workshop ‘Engineering Fictions’ hosted by Jessica as part of her research and artistic practice.
As an artist, Louise’s sensibility is anchored in shifting perspectives of human behaviour, in the politics of the everyday and in hybrid spaces between internalized worlds of pleasure and externalised habits imposed by society. Her art work tips her/our daily struggles into absurdity, where certain socially conditioned behaviours are reflected upon in a series of repetitive performances.
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