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Amanda Coogan (born 1971 in Dublin) is an Irish performance artist, living and working in Dublin. She studied under the performance artist Marina Abramović at the HBK Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig, Germany. In her performance art, she produces video and photographs from live performances. Her work often begins with her own body and often challenges the expectations born of context.

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Early life

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Amanda Coogan (born 1971 in Dublin) is an Irish performance artist, living and working in Dublin and Belfast. She studied Painting at Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece, and Sculpture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and under the performance artist Marina Abramović at the HBK Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig, Germany. She received her PhD from the University of Ulster in 2013.

Career

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In her performance art, she produces video and photographs from live performances. Her work often begins with her own body and often challenges the expectations born of context. Not deaf herself, she is a first language signer and in one striking work she dances to Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," while signing the lyrics. In a more recent work, produced for the Liverpool Biennial, she filmed local people headbanging to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy."

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She explains how she came to choose performance art over painting:

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"I was making these expressionist paintings, but it occurred to me that I was more interested in jumping around the canvas than what was on the canvas."

Coogan has exhibited in Marking the Territories at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, was an award winner at EV+A 2002 in Limerick, was selected by the Royal Hibernian Academy for the Eurojets Futures exhibition in 2003, and was an invited participant in the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. The Limerick City Gallery of Art hosted an exhibition of her installation work in 2005.

Notable performances

Coogan has had numerous solo exhibitions, including:

  • Amanda Coogan, Recycling the Future, Venice Biennale, Venice (2003)
  • Amanda Coogan, A Brick In The Handbag, The Void, Derry, (2005)
  • Amanda Coogan, The Fall, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, (2009)
  • Amanda Coogan, The Passing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, (2011)
  • Amanda Coogan, I’ll sing you a song from around the town, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (2015)
  • Amanda Coogan, I’ll sing you a song from around the town, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (2017)
  • References

    Amanda Coogan Wikipedia


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