Welcome to APHASIA
APHASIA is the new work by collaborating artists Darragh O Callaghan and David Sudmalis. It is an immersive installation bringing together our practices in photomedia, sculpture, sound, music and performance. APHASIA will premiere at the Australian Centre for Photography in December 2012, and we aim to tour it internationally throughout 2013.
Aphasia is from the Greek root ἀφᾰσία meaning speechlessness caused by fear or perplexity; in English, aphasia refers to a medical condition that presents as difficulties in language ability, occasioned by injury or disease to the brain. There is a great synopsis of the condition at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia.
For us, we are treating the notion of aphasia as indicative of the difficulties of communication: contested meaning, incomplete comprehension, and malleable memory. For us both, it is a rich personal reservoir of experience upon which we are both drawing for this work.
APHASIA takes its point of departure letters written to Darragh and her own dreams. In bringing these source materials together, we bring into dispute worlds of reality and fantasy, truths and obvious fictions, until these separate worlds merge and are indistinguishable from each other – a new entity with its own antecedents and consequents, and the inherent difficulties that such a conflation inevitably produces.
This blog will trace the development of the work, ranging from our residency at Bundanon, through exhaustive materials testing, composition and the debate about performance, to realisation in December.
We are glad you’ve chosen to join us on this creative journey, and look forward to seeing you at APHASIA either in Sydney or elsewhere…
D&D
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