Practice and Peril

Producer - Change of Address: Practice and Peril

I was honoured to produce Change of Address’ event - Practice and Peril. The collective was comprised of three artists - Oonagh Murphy, Maeve Stone and Moira Brady Averill.

The third member and much-adored friend - Moira Brady Averill, now mourned and missed by her friends, summed up what they wanted to achieve with her introduction to the 'Practice and Peril' event in the Science Gallery in January.

"I have this list of prompt words and word combinations that articulate the themes associated with our endeavour

First on the list: Friendship And -

Community
A gathering together of varying interests, experiences and perspectives
Modes of empowerment potential
An evaluation of systemic malfunction
A grassroots confrontation of state mandated internment
We are faced with the awkward and showy and easily self-righteous task of deconstructing the official in order to officialize common sense in a public sphere. The people you will see today will speak to one another. They will be before you, speaking in public to someone who was a relative stranger four weeks previous to today.

If initial discomfort is a revolutionary ask then perhaps that is something for us all to consider when we leave here today. We have officialized conversation and companionship in an effort to create a dialogue around an extreme injustice which is all too present and all too unseen in our country at this moment. We attempt to undermine, with friendship, the tediously slow and inadequate system of Direct Provision currently in place in Ireland.”