Research
Author: Oona Frawley How do we live when our loved ones are dying? How do we make sense of the world in their wake? And how do we balance love in the present with memory of the past? As she witnesses her mother’s descent into dementia and a beloved friend’s cruel battle with cancer, Oona…
Monodrama I is my first production pre-dating the funded artistic research project entitled “En-Gendering Monodrama: Artistic Research and Experimental Production”, which was awarded a two-year Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at Maynooth University between 2015 and 2017. The project, based on twentieth-century musical monodrama, is an original undertaking that applies an interdisciplinary approach to the…
NePraMusT aims to retrace the interactions between music theatre and experimental theatre practitioners, voicing the role of numerous creative agents currently underrepresented in official accounts through archival and practice-led investigation. NePraMusT (Networks of Practice in New Music Theatre), MSCA project 2022-24, Audiovideo Online Report, University of Huddersfield, UK.
Neither (I nor Not I), is a short-film based on the one-woman opera Neither by Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett (1977). It is the second output of my IRC funded project ‘En-Gendering Monodrama’ and was awarded funding from the Short-Grass short-film award of the Kildare County Council, and screened at Culture Night in Dublin, Maynooth…
My En-Gendering Monodrama live staged production contextualizes female sensibilities across visual arts and music throughout the twentieth-century, as imagined by Cocteau and Poulenc and embodied by their first muse and demiurge Denise Duval. La Voix Humaine, Promo from 2016 En-Gendering Monodrama Production
Under the Feet of Shadows is a multimedia artwork developed by EL Putnam and Mike McCormack that creatively explores human-technological relations, speculating other futures in these times of extreme change and crisis. It tells a fictional origin myth of a data center in Kilalla, Ireland, where the cyborg Terra is called upon to negotiate between the spiritus of…
The Embodied Monologues Project seeks to generate responses and challenges to the idea of solo or ‘mono’ performance. What is the role of the intertextual, the multimedial, the intercorporeal in this mode of performance? The Embodied Monologues research network originated during Francesca’s IRC postdoctoral Fellowship at MU between 2015 and 2017, and unfolded as a research series culminating with…
Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities is jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Irish Research Council (2021-24). It is a trans and inter disciplinary research project tasked with developing an intersectional feminist framework for digital arts and humanities (DH) practice and research. FSF evolved from a number of initiatives and networks, including FACT/// (Feminist…