In an experimental series of installations,  physical performance artist Roisin O’Gorman, digital artist and designer Michael Murphy,  juxtapose events and artifacts in history through interactive digital media and performance in order to crack the veneer of the political ideologies that have risen to the surface over the last several years and allow for viewer/participants a unique experience in the story of where we are now: Decomposition/ Recomposition.

Within the digital context which promises connection and intimacy, but in fact further divides and deludes, it is our goal to create a series of unique art experiences that bring together the body, history, science and the virtual  through the use of mixed media, somatic methods, scientific data and historical artifact in order to disrupt the patterns that are presently in place. We choose very particular material remnants (historical texts, unidentified human remains, traces of cultural practices), we place them in relation to the materiality of (digital sound, image) to create time-based art/poetic immersions that evolve in relation to real time interactions with the presence of the viewer/participant.  Through these juxtapositions we seek answers to a series of questions. What does speculative historical re-membering open up for a contemporary audience? Can these created spaces invite emotional as well as intellectual connectivity and openness; that dislodge our sense of borders, controls, and rigid identities? 

As the project engages with material and textual remains, digital re-imaginings and interactive processes, we face the impossibility of recovery of those people and places disposed of or dispossessed by history,  while at the same time seeking to create work that conjures their absent presence, to claim through arts practice research a rich site for evocation, affective resonance, and historical re-narrativization.