Panel - The Body Of The State

Jesse Jones, Sarah Browne, Fearghus Ó Conchúir and Sarah Jane Scaife. JESSE JONES AND SARAH BROWNE – IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE Taking place in the context of the Irish State centenary, artists Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne discuss their exploration of statehood from the perspective of the female body. FEARGHUS Ó CONCHÚIR – THE CASEMENT PROJECT The Casement Project is a choreography of bodies and ideas that takes place across multiple platforms and national boundaries. It dances with the queer body of British peer, Irish rebel and international humanitarian, Roger Casement to ask: Who gets to be in the national body? How could the national body move? Might Casement’s legacy be a flourishing diversity of citizen-bodies? SARAH JANE SCAIFE – BECKETT IN THE CITY How is it possible for Beckett’s abstract, modernist works to speak to the trauma of ‘unruly’ female bodies long hidden and controlled? Thursday 21 January 2016 at the Abbey Theatre