DECODING AND REIMAGINING POSTMAN IDENTITY

solo exhibition

Through participatory mixed media art projects, Oonagh explores the material relations between international law, art and governance. With found wood and bark, plastic waste, wood and fabric scraps, string and thread, paper and prefabricated masks, clay, water- and oil-based paints, Oonagh investigates posthuman identity and imagination in times of global environmental, health, social, economic, political, and technological crisis.

Making, performing, and engaging in complex and elaborate human-material-technological assemblages, Oonagh seeks to connect materials and people and generate new insights and inspiration for tackling global problems and contributing to a more sustainable, equitable and just posthuman era.

This transdisciplinary research practice builds on philosophical frameworks (postmodernism, posthumanism, new materialism, speculative futures, and colonial legacy, gender, and critical legal studies), and methodologies of research-creation, autoethnography, case study, and socially engaged art. The projects seek to decode meaning and reimagine identity, solidarity, resistance, and resilience in the face of the multiple crises of the Anthropocene.