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My work articulates the joint space between research and arts practice. Engaging creative methodologies and movement based practices from theatre-making with the theoretical frameworks from performance studies I pay attention to that which is overlooked or relegated to the margins of experience and knowledge and how those forms are politically implicated.
I experiment with different modes and work with to push boundaries in concepts and methodologies by exploring various platforms to discover the best form to support, develop and communicate the research within a given project. Interweaving my work as a Somatic Movement Educator along with creative arts practice and traditional scholarship results in a diverse practice as a writer and artist that integrates and cross-pollinates these realms.
My unique background and approach has resulted in arts-based research projects, performance experiments, essays in international journals, book chapters and video essays. This experimental and creative approach continues to evolve and offer performance possibilities.
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Róisín O’Gorman is a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, School of Film, Music & Theatre at University College Cork. From her background in theatre historiography, dramatic literature, theory, feminism and visual culture, Róisín's current research lives between embodied practices and theoretical understandings of performance. She explores this interdisciplinary terrain through the somatic practice of Body-Mind Centering (BMC) which offers an embodied ground to her theoretical and media based work. Róisín completed her Somatic Movement Educator certification in BMC with Embody-Move Association in the UK with support from UCC and The Arts Council of Ireland. BMC has been highly influential and innovative in the field of Dance, part of Róisín's ongoing research is to examine how this mode can be applied to theatre and performance.
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Recent Projects / Upcoming Work
Recent projects include medical humanities research with Living Well with the Dead collective, co-curation of Modes of Capture with Jenny Roche, UL, and a collaborative visual arts installation project.
Also, Róisín has published on contemporary Irish performance and also on critical pedagogy in Text & Performance Quarterly and Transformations. She has co-edited a special edition of Performance Research "On Failure" (with Margaret Werry). In 2012 she collaborated with visiting Fulbright scholar, Michael Murphy, in developing a new intermedia performance, Sleepwalker, which was shown at the Triskel Development Centre, Cork. The piece was performed in Montana in 2013.
More recently she has published an article in Performance Research on a practice-based research project. In 2015-16 she organized transdisciplinary events: Performance & Politics & Protest and Bodystories in collaboration with Women's Studies director Dr. Sandra McAvoy. In 2018-19 she is part of the transdisciplinary team on the Wellcome Trust funded project "Living Well with the dead in Contemporary Ireland." She has recently edited a special edition of Performance Matters on "Performance & Bodie(s) Politic" (4:3 2018).