Collaboration with The Parsley Collective (2025-26)
In 2025, at the start of their residency at Dance Limerick, the Parsley Collective asked me to join them as a collaborative researcher. I recorded them over the course of the year in Dance Limerick, Ormston House and LCGA. I played with this material over the months and for the finale of their residency I present 5 four-screen films, that played with the original footage in various ways. Alongside this I presented 26 still images that used the film works as experimental camera devices to show their movement in a frozen temporal state. These works will be featured in a book on the Parsley Collective, available late this year. I also hope to run an exhibition of our collaboration at the Guesthouse Project once the publication has been realised.
The Parsley Collective comprise of Mary Nunan, Isabella Oberlander, Angie Smallis, Rachael Shiel and Selma Ataya.
Each member head tracked, imaged centered and then all 7080 images combined equally
Movement Entropy mapping
Average luminosity per frame
Mutoscope version. Commisioned by Cine Dans Festival.
Position Heatmap
Collaboration Examples:
Collaboration with Sophie Hutchinson
In 2024, I was selected to take part in the Studio Light Moves: Open Futures residency to collaborate with dance artist Sophie Hutchinson. During this residency, which took place over two weeks, one in June and one in November, we worked with a high-speed camera, exploring movement in an expanded temporal space.
The work was shown during an installation entitled 'Mediated Motion' at the Guesthouse Project in Cork and as part of a sharing and discussion at Dance Limerick. Following the sharing, Light Moves awarded us a bursary and offered continued support to aid us in the of our collaboration moving into 2025. This has lead to the development of further work during residencies at The Guesthouse Project, Inis Oírr, Joya: Arte & Ecologia, Sirius Art Center and several filming excursions on Sherkin Island, Skellig Michael, the Slieve Mish mountain range and in Connemara.
We did an updated presentation of our work at Light Moves: Junction -Dance and the digital Arts, in May 2026 and during an upcoming month long residency at GOMA Waterford we will start to showcase more recent experiments made during the past year.
Waterhands | Duration 25:21 | Two Channel | 4K Resolution (each screen) | 25fps
Waterhands is a two channel film, showing a 1000fps motion study portrait and a second screen showing the individual frames.
Lobster Legs| Duration 26:05 | Three Channel | HD Resolution (each screen) | 25fps, 24fps, 23fps
Also shot at 1000fps, lobster legs consists of showing the same film played back at three different frame rates. On loop the films gradually drift further and further out of sync.
Nothing Exists Until It Moves | Duration 8:59 | Single Channel | 4K Resolution | 25fps
A movement study in transformation, presence, and the unseen forces that shape what we perceive, Nothing Exists Until It Moves is a short film that uses a computer-vision technique called frame differencing to extract and emphasise all movement within a moving image.
A body encounters an unseen environment, revealed only through its disturbance. The earth shifts, stones scatter, and bushes tremble toward consciousness, unveiling the subtle violence of existence. The screen becomes a space where movement alone defines existence, blurring the line between body and environment.
Filmed on location at Joya: arte + ecología / AiR - Cortijada Los Gázquez, Vélez Blanco, Spain
Screenings:
Eco Dance Day - June 2025 - Interface, Co. Galway, Ireland
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival - September 2025 - Bucharest, Romania
Light Moves Festival - November 2025 - Limerick City, Ireland
CineDans Festival - February 2026 - Amsterdam, Holland
Mutoscope version. Commisioned by Cine Dans Festival.
Collaboration with Péist & Aoibhinn O Dea
Building towards collapse only to build again, this performance brings together Limerick-based improvised noise group Péist and artist Billy Kemp. GROUNDWORK will unearth an interdependence between sound, movement and live-visuals, moving through fleeting moments of unity and discord.
Taking their name from the Irish for ‘worm’, Péist’s improvisations use synthesisers, electro-acoustic instruments, and purpose-built software to wriggle and writhe between sounds and musical forms, burrowing through the dirt.
Péist – Sounds
Aoibhinn O’Dea – Movement
Billy Kemp – Live Visuals
Péist are made up of musicians Mícheál Keating, Daithí Mac Cruitín, Eilis Mahon, Cian McGuirk and Caimin Walsh.
Earwicker: Collaboration with Mick O' Shea
Mick and I have been playing music together since the Covid era, collaborating in various forms and performing at events across the country. In 2023, we officially formed Earwicker—a project built on the interplay between sound and image. The concept is simple but generative: I create films in response to our music, and we, in turn, use those visuals as a kind of evolving score. So far, we’ve developed four distinct versions, each shaped by entirely different films. We typically invite a rotating third member to join the collaboration for each version. On my end the technology is always evolving to react better to the sound and in ways that i can live control the sound and image with more control.
Upcoming Collaborations
I am presently composing a four channel audio piece to accompany artist Siobhán McGibbon's work in Uillinn, West Cork Art Centre in Skibereen this July.
The music is made using a 4 voice minimalist drone synthesizer I designed to explore how pure sine waves interact in a physical space. By combining deep sub-bass frequencies with tiny microtonal detunings, the patch shifts the focus away from melody and toward raw acoustic movement. Because the volume of each voice fades in and out independently over long periods, the chord is constantly changing shape, creating slow physical pulsations and subtle phantom overtones as the frequencies mix in the room.
Music Video and Exhibition for Zkerries (Andy Connelly, Killian Barton, Dan Walsh)
In collaboration with artist Gina Raune, I have been scanning 5000 ink shapes that she made for an exhibition in 2007. These images will be used in several different contexts. First to make a music video for the new Zkerries release on the Appartment Records label towards the end of this year. But will also form part of an exhibition, likely in the first quarter of 2017.