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  • Overview
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    E.gress is a filmic artwork that maps a world of loss and change, exploring how individuals diagnosed with dementia find new ways to adjust to changing world. This multi-layered film, a portrait of living moments on life’s edge, invites us to contemplate loss, love and life itself.

    The artwork was produced by artist Marie Brett and musician Kevin O’Shanahan following an intensive collaboration with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, informed by the concept of absence and presence and how ambiguous loss theory relates to an experience of dementia.

  • About the Artist

    • About the Artist

    Marie Brett

    Marie Brett is a visual artist working in digital, sculptural and live events. Her practice responds to culturally shunned human behaviours and the lived experience of loss and trauma. A graduate of London University Goldsmiths College, Brett makes filmic, audio-sculptural, and event based pieces, for gallery and flux-off-site locations. Her work develops through socially engaged methods, particularly exploring an ethical and aesthetic relation to the politics of cultural production.

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    Talks and Events

    Launch and Discussion| E.gress
    To mark the launch and tour of E.gress, a multilayered film that explores living moments on lifes edge; Marie Brett (artist) and Jon Hinchliffe (Alzheimer Society of Ireland) discussed the making of this collaborative project with Cliodhna Shaffrey (Director, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin). The event was opened by Prof. Rose Ann Kenny (Director, Mercers Institute for Successful Ageing). Listen to the discussion here.
    This talk took place on Tuesday 3 November.

    Conversation | Marie Brett and Mary Dorcey
    Listen here to Marie Brett (artist) and Mary Dorcey (poet) discuss the intersections between their respective practices as poet and artist in relation to E.gress. This talk took place on Friday 27 November.

    Additional Resources

    Watch a video on the film work featuring interviews with artist Marie Brett and Jon Hinchliffe from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.

    Film brings ‘twilight world’ of dementia into focus, read an interview with Marie Brett by Sylvia Thompson in the Irish Times.

    Read blog by artist Marie Brett as she reflects on her filmwork E.gress during its time at IMMA.

    Click here to view trailer.

    A catalogue accompanies the work with four contextual essays from a variety of perspectives.

    Marie Brett was awarded an Arts Council touring and dissemination of work award for The E.gress Tour 2015/16. Further details http://www.mariebrett.ie/

    E.gress is shown alongside Daphne Wright’s Plura, a film work commissioned by South Tipperary County Council, which addresses remembering or loss of memory, and associated struggles with language, conversation and relationships.