Falling Gardens part II: Grief Lines
a multimedia Installation by
Michael R. Murphy and Róisín O’Gorman
In collaboration with Roksana Niewadzisz
is showing at the Gallery of Arts on the University of Montana campus Monday-Friday, August 24-September 10.

Artist Talk, Thursday, August 27th; 4:30--6:30pm, talk starts at 5pm. 
Daily Hours:
Monday/Tuesday 11-4
Wednesday/Thursday 11-5
Friday 12-3
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Artist’s statement
Murphy and O’Gorman’s work subverts the catharsis and spectacle that traditional time-based arts and culture train us to expect (conflict, rising action, heroic resolution). Instead, through a collage of forms, where sound and vision are not neatly stitched together, their work opens to the possibility of breaking apart our usual experience of time  and allow for being with unresolved rage and grief. This work is a companion piece to their previous work, Falling Gardens part I:Angel of Histories

Bios

Michael Murphy is a faculty member of the School of Art and Game Design at the University of Montana, where he began working after a career as an actor in theatre, film and television in New York City and Los Angeles. Since then he has worked as a director and creator across multiple disciplines, including theatre, film and opera, as well as interactive media design and installation work.

Róisín O’Gorman  is a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre, School of Film, Music & Theatre at University College Cork. From her background in theatre historiography, dramatic literature, theory, feminism and visual culture, Róisín's current research lives between embodied practices and theoretical understandings of performance. 

Roksana Niewadzisz is a polylingual multidisciplinary artist and a researcher with an academic background in Theatre, Translations and Art History. For over eighteen years she has been developing her skills as audio-visual artist, performer, stage director, actress and mover training, devising work and performing in dozens of projects in/across Poland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and the United States.