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Updated 1st June 2005

Home Entertainment - Enso art event in the home of Artist\Playwright\Activist Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden. 7pm - 10pm Friday May 27th. Bridgets Place Galway. Thanks to Margaretta and John for welcoming us into their home and for a wonderfull evening.

The living room had a number of televisions placed in the fireplace and counters and in cuboards with video art by Megs Morley 'Cultural Excavation of Febuary 8th 2003' a day of degenerated adverts (Irish desires), 'See-Saw', Video potrait of Margaretta D'Arcy and video from a small camera hidden in Margarettas hat.

One wall was filled with a projection from a computer from which we showed websites as part of the opening performance 'Changing The World in an Hour'. The performance in which we tried to contact president George W Bush involved phoning the White House and the collective writing and sending of an email asking George to end his 'war on freedom'. Goverments world wide have used the global media's spectacle of a 'world in terror' to introduce absurd laws such as the Homeland Security Act and proposed introduction of Anti Social Behaviour Act here in Ireland. These kinds of laws give goverment more power over peoples lives including increased ability to supress artistic and activist activity that challenge goverment policy. Policy which infringe on peoples creative freedom is truly anti-social. This performance is in solidarity with Steve Kurtz of Critical Arts Ensemble and all the other artists world wide who challenge hegemony and oppression of the Neo-liberal Capitalist 'status quo'.

The Internet projection blended with projections by Tom Flanagan of old slides he found which must have been used for teaching Irish in some primary school.

Rocky Meaney perfromed 'This Village Is Surrounded by Razor Wire Fence' which he wrote with red tape on the kitchen floor. At the same time there where sound perfromances by Barry Prendergast, Eoghan Hunt and Arron Hurley from Sunmonster.

Kevin Flanagan read random sentences from Margaretta and Johns book shelves this included their Encyclopedia Brittanica, Andrea Fitzpatrick wrote these sentences down and created a fractured text with a focus on human conflict. Andrea also made a book with the audience.

Maeve Mc Elligott scrubbed the kitchen floor leaving on it the words 'Domestic Wretch'.

In the bathroom audience members found themselves left alone confronted with a huge mirror surrounded by lights with a camera hanging from the ceiling with which they where invited by a sound piece by Maeve and Megs to get in touch with and photograph their true selves. The lights on the mirror where put up by Tom "Sorry I Cracked Your Mirror" Flanagan. To listen to the sound piece that was in te bathroom Click Here.

The whole evening which was broadcast live on Radio finished up nicely with readings by John from one of his books and by Margaretta from her soon to be published biography 'Loose Theatre' which documents her life as a Guerilla Theatre Activist.