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biography
Tara Jordan is a Limerick-based artist who believes the artifacts left behind from processes of self-creation are often messages from the unconscious. Through collaborative events, viewers are invited to engage with these artifacts, blurring the lines between performer and audience. This participatory approach emphasizes the performance of the self as key to its existence.
Deep exploration of the self through a psychoanalytic lens, focusing on the intricacies of the everyday experience, forms the bedrock of her work. As is a variety of contemporary mediums; 3D works, design, sound art, digital game development, painting, digital art, dialogical practice, community events, the written word, and programmed electronics. By embracing this multidisciplinary approach, she devises immersive and thought-provoking experiences that challenge traditional artistic boundaries as a reflection of her core concepts.
With a Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture and Combined Media) from Limerick School of Art and Design. She arranged a two-day music festival as an aspect of her work ‘Identity’, exhibited in LSAD Graduate Show 2023, WIP with Exhibition Society LSAD, Advance in Spacecraft Studios, A.B.C. for Mental Health Green Ribbon Month Art Exhibition in collaboration with Treaty City Brewery, Otherworld in Ballynacourty Gardens, in-house WIP Exhibition within the Sculpture and Combined Media department LSAD.
artist statement
Driven by an obsessive fascination with the intricacies of the communication machine, which may form the foundation of all human connections via the conscious and verbal or unconscious and physical. It's a psychoanalytic journey that seeks to decipher the hidden messages that shape our narrative selfhood. With a contemporary approach to storytelling and personal history, an autoethnographic exploration of the non-linear is embarked upon, bridging the remembered with the present and connecting across different dimensions of time.
The intertwining threads that shape our sense of self become unraveled. By delving into personal histories and engaging in a dialogical practice, the layers that compose our individual and collective identities become uncovered. With the home as an effigy for the self and the self as an effigy for the home - the 'Bedroom Everyday' becomes my gateway to navigate the passageways between personal objects and narrative selfhood. By incorporating familiar items, a new three-dimensional vocabulary of selfhood that evokes a rich sense of familiarity and nostalgia is curated. This intimate exploration of the domestic nucleus as a medium for self-creation allows viewers to reflect on their own experiences and establish profound connections with the captured essence of daily life where personal narratives intertwine to form a rich tapestry
Active engagement with the community deepens connection to the work, inviting individuals to share their own aspects of this language and contribute to the ongoing conversation. This inclusive approach fosters a sense of belonging and deepens the diverse ways in which music shapes communication and identity. By establishing a dialogical practice, my work becomes a platform for collective engagement, dismantling hierarchies, and fostering a sense of community. It is through this dialogical exchange that my art resonates with viewers on a deeper level, transcending language barriers and touching the intangible aspects of the human experience.
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