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Artist Aideen Barry has long been interested in levitation and flight. Her best-known piece is the film, Vacuuming in a Vacuum, in which she dressed up as a hoover while floating in a zero-gravity compression chamber at the Kennedy Space Station. It’s an incredibly beautiful piece, one that captures the yearning to escape the domestic.
At Engage, Barry performed her live-action piece, ‘Flight Folly’, in the drawing room of the Farm, the former dower house of the Bernard family, just outside Bandon. ‘Flight Folly’ was conceived for performance at Liste 15, Basel, Switzerland. A film of the work can be viewed online, but nothing quite prepares you for seeing Barry perform it live.
