• Annat
• Disturbance
• Single Track Road
• Light
• Swing
• Domestic Hiss
• La La Na
• Matta
• Pasqua
• Losing Gravity
• Bitter Cold
• Breath

Lisa O'Brien

Swing

Video - 45 seconds

I'm interested in duration, how we experience time passing. A swing, with its predictable metronome movement, could measure time, at least there should be a regular rhythm to the action of a swing, but here the regular rhythm is disturbed. The swing never passes forward of the half way marker fixed by the tree but is consistently blown backwards upsetting our expectations. " The visual footage is layered with a soundtrack featuring a child singing a Gaelic nursery rhyme: 'hello, how are you, I'm fine thank you'. O'Brien sets up an ordinariness in this scenario which she then proceeds to deconstruct. Everything is set slightly off key as the strange delivery of the song and the offbeat rhythm of the swing disrupt our experience." (Scottish Arts Council feature)