Hanne Tierney

RECENT PERFORMANCES

WHY??
May 30 – June 29, 2024
Installation and performances at FiveMyles

An exhibition with performances at FiveMyles featured large prints on the gallery walls illustrating the progression of propaganda and indoctrination that have historically led to men engaging in battles and wars. A life-size puppet provided a detailed lecture on this theme, while her small boy puppet companion asked provocative questions on behalf of the audience. Additionally, a line of dowel sticks represented marching soldiers, and an otherworldly spirit-figure sang commentaries on the folly of mankind.

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The drawings by the Russian artist Lyobov Popova were the starting point for this work. Constructed in three dimensions these intersecting lines are manipulated by gesture and movement resulting in dramatic storytelling. The geometric, shape-shifting figures lend themselves to the wit and humor in this retelling of
The Emperor’s New Clothes.

18 Stanzas Sung to a Tartar Reed Whistle
September 19 – October 6, 2019
Installation and performances at Fiveyles

This performance was inspired by the Chinese epic written by the woman poet Ts’ai Yen 2,000 years ago. It tells of a young Han woman’s life in a Nomad camp, where she had been abducted by the victorious Tartars.