– is part of the Tuam project. Though it stresses the performance is a response to those oral testimonies, and not re-enactments or documentary, it is creatively adjacent to them. Covid masks bearing words picked out from the testimonies say it powerfully: scandal, silence, shame, forgotten, buried. ‘Hamfistedly’ doneMore than two years into the four-year oral history project, she and Cunningham talk about the “privileging” of evidence, with some sources given more weight. It is disgusting.”ApologisedHe says the performance “brought it all out again and showed it, what’s really happened, a history that’s still there”.

Source: The Irish Times May 08, 2021 04:52 UTC