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Deilf an Iarthar (The Dolphin of the West) is an in progress site specific audio piece for Clare Island, Ireland and her ferries. Created from and featuring interviews, music, and natural recordings of Clare Island, the piece brings forward the contemporary voices of Clare as the island tackles a challenging moment of change. Beginning with a process rooted in anthropological and sociological interviews, observational fieldwork, and traditional research, the data is coded for art creation and wedded to original scoring by Clare Island musicians.
About the Artist
Patrice Miller: director-choreographer and performance artist best known for their interdisciplinary performance making that is rooted in using social science research and methodologies coded for performance making. She directed and co-created the premieres of This Joint is Jumpin featuring Lillias White (The Other Palace, London), Brian Boone’s The Testament of Josh: A Flesh and Blood Musical, James Judd’s Funny Stories (Crown & Anchor, Provincetown), In the Pines (AUSTRAL Buenos Aires, Argentina). Their acclaimed NYC productions as a director include: Mad Jenny’s Love und Greed, Sarah Jane Johnson’s Devil in the Box, Maggie Cino's Decompression, Marion Fayolle’s In Pieces, Evelyn Piper’s Bunny Lake is Missing. Patrice is the Artistic Associate of Untitled Theater Company #61 and with them has choreographed and collaborated on: Paul Auster’s City of Glass, Vaclav Havel’s The Pig …, Money Lab, amongst others. Their installation/performance art work includes appearing in Steve Valk & Michael Klein’s Excavation: Martha Graham Company (COIL), with Public Movement (Performa11), Jody Oberfeld Projects (NYLA), and creating work for The Brooklyn Museum, Prelude/CUNY Grad Center, SUNY Stonybrook, Grace Exhibition Space, Postmasters Gallery, NYCFashionweek. They are also a death doula and enthusiastic cat lady.
