Dominic Thorpe: Dark Dark Mouth Performance

Dominic Thorpe: Dark Dark Mouth performance

Dominic Thorpe, smother smother, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2023

11am – 3pm Thursday 25 January

Visual artist Dominic Thorpe presents a live durational performance in the Gibson Galleries. Throughout the day, visitors are invited to move through the space and observe the artist as he creates a powerful, yet quiet performative accompaniment to his installation, Dark Dark Mouth.

Free event | No booking required

Dark Da rk Mouth (15-28 January) is a body of performance, drawing, and installation work by Dominic Thorpe, which addresses perpetrator trauma and the Irish Civil War (1922-23) in Cork. It is one of six project awards commissioned as part of BUILDING AS WITNESS and supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012 - 2023.

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