Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Mousse Publishing (2017)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
109 p.; 16.22 inches
ISBN
8867492683 / 9788867492688
Call number
MON.ZZZ.JOJ.17
Library's review
Excerpt from E-flux: Jesse Jones threw a spotlight on feminism and women’s issues with her work Tremble Tremble when she represented Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale, particularly informed by the growing female bodily autonomy movement in Ireland. Since then the political landscape has changed
The title is inspired by the 1970s Italian wages for housework movement, during which women chanted “Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate! (Tremble, tremble, the witches have returned!).” At the time of this rising social movement in Ireland, Jesse Jones returns to the witch as a feminist archetype and disrupter who has the potential to transform reality. Tremble Tremble imagines a different legal order, one in which the multitude are bought together in a symbolic, gigantic body, to proclaim a new law, that of In Utera Gigantae.
"Did I disturb ye good people? I hopes I disturb ye, I hopes I disturb ye enough to want to see this, your house, in ruins all around ye! Have you had enough yet? Or do you still have time for chaos? Hah? More?"
Based in Dublin, Jesse Jones has been researching the ways in which the law transmits memory between generations and over time. Her research weaves between an archaeological dig of a 3.5 million year old female specimen, to the suppressed voices of the witch trials of 16th century Europe, the symphysiotomy trials, and abortion legislation in Ireland today. The new world order to be found in Tremble Tremble churns testimony, court statements and song into a towering bodily incantation. Sitting somewhere between sculpture, film and theatre, Tremble Tremble evolves each time it is shown—pulled apart, re-animated, it becomes part of its context: in Singapore at the ICA of LASALLE College of the Arts in November 2017 it included a burning table, which, in the tradition of the ‘hungry ghost’, held burned copies of an Irish declaration from 1821 that repealed the Witchcraft Act of 1586, and surrounded by gestures that inscribed marks into the walls of the space. At Project Arts Centre, some of these gestures remain, with Jones also inserting new monuments alongside the giant bones: a millstone, mist, and a sacred water source blessed by nine St Bridget Wells of Ireland, all make their way into the room.
Tremble Tremble is a collaboration with theatre artist Olwen Fouéré, sound artist Susan Stenger and commissioner and curator Tessa Giblin, Director of Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh.
A book, published in English and Italian, features the writing of Silvia Federici, Tina Kinsella, Lisa Godson, and Tessa Giblin. Designed by Åbäke, with photography by Ros Kavanagh, Tremble Tremble / Tremate Tremate is co-published by Mousse Publishing and Project Arts Centre, and will be available to purchase from Project Arts Centre from the duration of the exhibition.
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dramatically, with calls for change echoing around the world. In the wake of #MeToo, #IBelieveHer, revelations about the gender pay gap, and in the year that Irish citizens have won the opportunity to vote in an historic referendum on Ireland’s 8th Amendment, Jesse Jones returns to Dublin with the Irish premiere of this timely work. Jones will transform Project’s main theatre into a multi-media installation which re-imagines feminist history and law, presenting an artwork she describes as a “bewitching” of the judicial system.The title is inspired by the 1970s Italian wages for housework movement, during which women chanted “Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate! (Tremble, tremble, the witches have returned!).” At the time of this rising social movement in Ireland, Jesse Jones returns to the witch as a feminist archetype and disrupter who has the potential to transform reality. Tremble Tremble imagines a different legal order, one in which the multitude are bought together in a symbolic, gigantic body, to proclaim a new law, that of In Utera Gigantae.
"Did I disturb ye good people? I hopes I disturb ye, I hopes I disturb ye enough to want to see this, your house, in ruins all around ye! Have you had enough yet? Or do you still have time for chaos? Hah? More?"
Based in Dublin, Jesse Jones has been researching the ways in which the law transmits memory between generations and over time. Her research weaves between an archaeological dig of a 3.5 million year old female specimen, to the suppressed voices of the witch trials of 16th century Europe, the symphysiotomy trials, and abortion legislation in Ireland today. The new world order to be found in Tremble Tremble churns testimony, court statements and song into a towering bodily incantation. Sitting somewhere between sculpture, film and theatre, Tremble Tremble evolves each time it is shown—pulled apart, re-animated, it becomes part of its context: in Singapore at the ICA of LASALLE College of the Arts in November 2017 it included a burning table, which, in the tradition of the ‘hungry ghost’, held burned copies of an Irish declaration from 1821 that repealed the Witchcraft Act of 1586, and surrounded by gestures that inscribed marks into the walls of the space. At Project Arts Centre, some of these gestures remain, with Jones also inserting new monuments alongside the giant bones: a millstone, mist, and a sacred water source blessed by nine St Bridget Wells of Ireland, all make their way into the room.
Tremble Tremble is a collaboration with theatre artist Olwen Fouéré, sound artist Susan Stenger and commissioner and curator Tessa Giblin, Director of Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh.
A book, published in English and Italian, features the writing of Silvia Federici, Tina Kinsella, Lisa Godson, and Tessa Giblin. Designed by Åbäke, with photography by Ros Kavanagh, Tremble Tremble / Tremate Tremate is co-published by Mousse Publishing and Project Arts Centre, and will be available to purchase from Project Arts Centre from the duration of the exhibition.
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Pages
109