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“Tricolour” examines
the power struggles of the female body alongside Irelands battle for
political freedom. In this performance an intense montage of historic
and contemporary media imagery highlight Ireland as a political canvas
as the artist’s actions display the female body as a site of
systematic ideological regulation. “Tricolour” intertwines
the personal with the political as the artist’s uneasy account
of her own Irishness is juxtaposed with the dedicated militancy of
Irelands political heroines. Further juxtapositions find the increasingly
multicultural nature of Irish society placed alongside nationalistic
propaganda, hierarchal statues alongside unborn potential, heroism
beside terrorism, the printing press beside a television. Across such
an explosive mish-mash of visual imagery and narratives the links and
contradictions between cultural identity and individual identity become
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