Rosie Trump + Noel Molloy
April 2 - 15, 2023
“Home Movies” by Rosie Trump
Above stills from “Home Movies"
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“Home Movies consists of vintage found footage of people dancing. Living room dance parties, impromptu twirls down the street and in the kitchen, and birthday, holiday and wedding celebrations are excavated from vintage home movies. By collaging together scenes of movement, old footage is seen anew. Home Movies positions our contemporary normalizations of voyeurism against the privately intended moments of the past.”
About the artist:
Rosie Trump is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, and educator. Her work is nostalgic in style, feminist, and deliberately understated. Trump’s dance films have recently screened at ADFs Movies by Movers, San Souci Dance Film Festival, Extremely Short Shorts at the Aurora Picture Show, the Utah Dance Film Festival, the Philadelphia Dance Film Festival, RADfest, and Dance Film Association’s Long Legs Short Films. She is the founder and chief curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival. Trump is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno.
“Walk the dog” by Noel Molloy
Above stills from “Walk the dog”
Tell us about yourself and what makes this artwork unique:
“I am a visual and performance artist and use video and sound in my performance. I have developed my video work to compliment my performance work. I create simple animation. "Taking the dog for a walk" is a general expression meaning you are going somewhere you don't want your spouse to know about; typically something relatively innocent like sneaking off to the pub for a crafty pint. It also has a number of sexual connotations. It can also suggest "to overpower" or "outsmart" someone as well as to smoke marijuana. Performance by Electrolux the dog and Noel Molloy, photographs by Aodha Molloy, voice over and editing by Noel Molloy. Language in Irish with English subtitles.”