Sarah Browne
Sarah Browne
Sarah Browne is an artist concerned with spoken and unspoken, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice. Her practice involves sculpture, film, performance and public projects, and frequent interdisciplinary collaboration.
Echo’s Bones, 2022
Echo’s Bones (2022) is a collaborative film-making project by Sarah Browne with autistic young people in North County Dublin, Ireland. The project borrows its title from an unpublished story by Samuel Beckett set in that landscape of Fingal, where now an old asylum building meets the coastline. Beckett’s plays are populated with people who might move with difficulty, mutter over each other, talk into the dark or not speak at all. As a project, Echo’s Bones questions why such neurodivergent or disabled styles of communication may be treated poorly in everyday situations, but valued as artistically exciting in others. Autism in the project is not a deficit, a disorder, or a problem to be fixed. It is a condition of sensitivity and divergence from what’s socially and cinematically measured as ‘normal’. As a condition, it is a way of asking what a neurodivergent cinema, and art, and world could be like.
The presentation at TULCA includes the film (26:14 minutes, open captions) and extracts of the ‘sensory score’ used in its creation.
Echo’s Bones by Sarah Browne is commissioned by Fingal County Council through Infrastructure 2017-2021, and funded by the Per Cent for Art Scheme.
Image: Sarah Browne, Echo’s Bones, 2022. 4K video with open captions (English language), 22:18 minutes. Film still. Cinematographer Cathy Dunne.
Gallery: Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick St Lower, Galway
Dates: 4-19 November, Mon-Sat 10-5pm, Sun 12-6pm
Tickets: Free
Access: On the ground floor of the Galway Arts Centre, which is step-free. There are accessible toilet facilities on the ground floor. There is a single accessible parking space on Dominick Street located across the road from Galway Arts Centre outside Rouge Café. The film time has a captioned and audio described version, played on a loop. Seating is provided.