Aoife Dunne is interested in the experiences of the body and of the self in interaction with the lived environment. Her interests stem from embodied research as an autistic woman in a disabled body. She draws from the Situationist concept of Psychogeography- the idea that the environments that a person lives, works, and operates in have huge impact on the way they think, feel, act, and behave. Influenced by aspects of crip theory and writings on the abject, Aoife’s research-based practice is fundamentally concerned with the space between the body and the self.
Aoife’s work deals indirectly with her experience of hypermobile type Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder which impacts each area of the body in various ways which may at first seem unconnected. A diagnosis of the condition necessitates an understanding that different areas of the body, though they may seem separate, are intertwined elements in a system, joined by connective tissues. Disparate elements come together as a whole.
She is five feet and two inches tall, approximately, and walks with short, flat steps.
Aoife works through drawing, photography, writing, sculpture, sound, and installation.
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