ARCHITECTURE, SPACES OF INTERACTION AND EVERYDAY POWER
2018
Susan Buttner, 2018, Architecture, Spaces of Interaction and Everyday Power, 2018, HD Film 02.44 min, with sound.
Susan Buttner, Hands, 2018, HD Film 02.44 min, with sound.
Developed through collaboration with second-year dance students at Inchicore College of Further Education, the work explores how bodies move through, occupy, and are shaped by architectural space. Sculpture, performance, film, and sound unfold through repeated gestures, temporary formations, and shifting relations between movement and structure.
Set within the modernist architecture of the college building, bodies gather, separate, lean, pause, and reorganise through choreographed actions and improvised encounters. Attention shifts between stillness and movement, individual and collective presence, allowing gesture to emerge through spatial tension and bodily rhythm.
Across the installation, sculptural objects, film, and live performance remain connected through processes of construction, handling, repetition, and removal. Crated forms, suspended actions, and partial arrangements foreground process as something ongoing rather than complete. Meaning emerges through proximity, duration, and collective negotiation within shared space.
Curated by Amanda Coogan.
Special thanks to Donnchadh Clancy, Marian Lennon, Linda Higgins, staff and students at Inchicore College of Further Education, and all participants involved in the rehearsal and development process. Written, directed, and edited by Susan Buttner. Videography by Gareth Stack. Movement devised collaboratively with performers Saoirse Doyle, Danielle Gillick, Claire Greene, Rachel Holmes, and Aoife Kane.
Materials
Cherry wood, upholstery foam, linen fabric, plywood, carpet, perspex, faux leather, cargo straps, wood fibre ceiling tiles, polyurethane foam, cellophane, and screws
Dimensions
various dimensions
Photographs
performance and installation view, Michelle Hall, Jennifer De Graaff
Year
2018






