Máiréad Delaney works in performance. Her practice of embodied speech acts — sort of emergency gestures — attempts a simultaneous holding-at bay of crushing violence and an affective entrance into its structure of feeling. Delaney understands these gestures as applying pressure to pressure, so we might register the systemic, continuous effects of harm, injustice, and grief over time.
Discipline:
Interdisciplinary Art – performance
Máiréad Delaney
Discipline:
Interdisciplinary Art – performance
Region: Hinesburg, VT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019
Studios
Putnam
Máiréad Delaney worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…