Chrysalis
Screening Programme featuring Shannon Te Ao, Laura Fitzgerald, Christopher Ulutupu, Eimear Walshe, Ana Iti, Venus Patel, Isadora Epstein, Jack Hogan & Francis Jones, Xin Cheng, and Susu
25 January – 8 February 2024
Chrysalis describes a transitional state, an incubator from which to grow. This screening programme pulls in works from a large variety of artists across Ireland and Aotearoa, exploring themes such as; the politics and nuance of language, migration, dislocation, housing, sexual and geographical histories, musing on how to live collaboratively, and how to relate to the more than human world. As STARLING’s first programme, Chrysalis has been fundamental in building a network of artists we love and support.
Chrysalis features 11 moving image artists. Over three weeks, we welcome in audiences for previews of 14 video works in total. This programme is designed to represent STARLING’s initial state of being, a state that responds to the building’s interior and the winter months surrounding us. We hope to create a comfortable dark space to experience this video series within, where people can gather together and gently lean into the beginnings of a chrysalis.
List of artists and works in the programme;
Shannon Te Ao, What was or could be today (again), 2019
Laura Fitzgerald, A Damp Opening, 2021
Christopher Ulutupu, Lelia, 2018)
Eimear Walshe, Land Cruiser, 2022
Christopher Ulutupu, The Pleasures of Unbelonging, 2023
Laura Fitzgerald, A Walk to Clear the Head, 2013
Ana Iti, I am a salt lake, 2022
Venus Patel, Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse, 2022
Isadora Epstein, The Revivalist, 2022
Jack Hogan & Francis Jones, I Thought I Hated U, Moon Snail, 2023
Xin Cheng, Suburban Water Bodies, 2022
Jack Hogan, Keepers, 2020
Xin Cheng, Seeing Like A Forest, 2019
Susu, Coco and Aiai 可可愛愛 , 2021–2022
Anne Egilsy
London writer Anne Egilsy wrote a response to our first Chrysalis Screening, focussing on two works – Shannon Te Ao’s What was or could be today(again) and Eimear Walshe’s Land Cruiser. You can read it here.
Anne writes a substack, I Love Emails, in which she writes about her life, books and movies.