Roisin O'Gorman

Róisín O’Gorman Department of Theatre. 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. Her work explores modes of embodiment and corporeality as transdisciplinary epistemologies. Articulating the joints between creative arts practice and traditional scholarship she interweaves practice as a Somatic Movement Educator along with creative arts research and critical scholarship. This work results in arts-based research projects, community projects, essays in international journals, book chapters and video essays which develop conceptual knowledge alongside affective and feminist imaginaries. Recently this included explorations of human remains of the uncared for dead as part of the research team on the Wellcome funded and award winning project, Living Well with the Dead in Contemporary Ireland (2018-19) (see: (see: https://livingwithdead.wixsite.com/website/events) She explores trans-disciplinary terrains through movement, in particular the somatic practice of Body-Mind Centering (BMC) which offers an embodied ground to her theoretical, performance and media based work. Róisín completed her Somatic Movement Educator certification in BMC with Embody-Move Association in the UK with support from UCC and The Arts Council of Ireland (see: http://embody-move.co.uk/). BMC has been highly influential and innovative in the field of Dance, part of Róisín's ongoing research is to examine how this mode can be applied to theatre and performance. (See also: http://www.bodymindcentering.com/) Crit

Areas of interest include: contemporary performance, corporeality, performance theory and dramatic literature, intermediality and visual culture, somatic practices, feminist praxis, critical pedagogy, artistic research, environmental arts practice, medical humanities.