Release Your Inner Dolphins
Performance. 2016
LET’S START WITH A SEMICOLON.
SEEK
SEEK
SEEK
SEEKING JOY
SEEKING JOY
IF YOU FEEL SAD INSIDE FOR LONG ENOUGH
YOU WILL BEGIN TO LOOK SAD ON THE OUTSIDE.
THIS IS DANGEROUS AS PEOPLE WILL KNOW.
THOSE AROUND YOU WILL KNOW – HE IS NOT
VERY HAPPY LOOKING. HIS FACE EXPRESSES
A LONGING, A TIREDNESS, EXHAUSTED BY
HOPE, DAYBREAK AND TIME PASSING. - THESE
SECRETS WE KEEP INSIDE OURSELVES CAN
MANIFEST EXTERNALLY WITHOUT US GIVING
THEM PERMISSION. FEELINGS ARE POWERFUL.
NATURE IS A FORCE. EXPLANATION IS FUTILE.
GIVING IN,
GIVING IN
GIVING IN
GIVING IN
释 放 你 的 内 部 海 豚
(Ssch fonn neeee de nay poo hai twen)
Release your inner dolphins,
Dig a hole in a hole,
Unknow the knowable
SURRENDER
Artists' Bio:
Vivienne Griffin (1975, Dublin, Ireland) was born on a western point of the European continental shelf that was connected to the continent by land during the last glacial period. This remote island has been instrumental in developing themes of existential alienation and absurdity in her work. Through drawing, performance, sculpture and sound Griffin explores collective human experience, aspects of the unsaid and the unknowable. She studied at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Kaspars Groševs (1983, Riga, Latvia) is an artist and curator based in Riga. He draws from a nebula, knows nothing and searches for the ceiling of the sea. Groševs has shown his work in Riga, Paris, New York, Vilnius and Moscow among other places. He infrequently performs with his music and contributes texts to the Latvian cultural press and exhibition catalogues. Groševs is a co-founder and curator of the Four To Seven (427) gallery in Riga.
Cian McConn (1980, Galway, Ireland) completed his MA at the Royal College of Art in London in 2012. He uses performance, video, text and dyeing to engage and collaborate with others. In 2013 McConn collaborated with Vivienne Griffin and Kaspars Groševs for his solo project Open Close Thing at the Tintype Gallery in London, together making the performance Nothing Empty Nothingness.