Michelle Deignan

Red Cheeks
Single channel digital video, 9 mins 26 secs, 2006.

In ‘Red Cheeks', an Irish actor makes a series of presentations to camera at three different locations around London; RTE's (Radio Telefis Eireann) offices at Millbank; The London Irish Women's Centre in Stoke Newington and at Irish Contemporary Art in Kensington. Throughout her earnest performance, she tells us information about the sites and stories about the artist, loosely suggesting associations between the two. At the RTE location, we are told about the artist's first British television appearance; at The London Irish Women's centre we hear about Deignan's altercation with a blind elderly racist and at the possibly fictitious site of Irish Contemporary Art we hear about the artist's interaction with an artwork at Freize Art Fair.

click on images for QuickTime movie 3 minute excerpt from 'Red Cheeks'. file size: 11 mb.