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Sandra Johnston, b.1968

Short Strand, 2000

Short Strand presents edited documentation of one of Johnston’s unannounced street performances, filmed from a parked car at locations across Belfast in 2000. The work is shown alongside alternating UTV news clips tracing the rise and decline of The Peace People, a movement founded in 1976 in response to violence in Northern Ireland. Incorporating extracts from Johnston’s 2003 interview with peace activist Mairead Corrigan Maguire, the installation reconsiders the organisation’s legacy and its promotion of non-violent approaches to reconciliation, education, and conflict resolution. 

MediumColour video, with sound
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Purchase, 2021
Item NumberIMMA.4217
On viewTechnologies of Peace: Art in Transition 1989 - 2026, 11/09/2026 - 09/05/2027
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Sandra Johnston, Short Strand, 2000, Colour video, with sound, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 2021

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

About the Artist

Sandra Johnston, b.1968

Northern Irish artist Sandra Johnston uses performance and installation to explore the aftermath of trauma through acts of commemoration as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. Johnston is a co-founder of collectives including CATALYST ARTS and BBEYOND. She completed a PhD research project ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into Concepts of Doubt, Risk and Testimony Explored Through Consideration of Performance Art Processes in Relation to Systems of Legal Justice’ in 2013.

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