Freude! Freude! by Amanda Coogan

Freude! Freude! by Amanda Coogan
In collaboration with Deaf artists Lianne Quigley and Alvean Jones with Dublin Theatre of the Deaf (DTD), Cork Deaf Community Choir and students from the Centre for Deaf Studies (CDS)

11 – 29 October 2023

The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art is excited to present a new work by renowned performance artist Amanda Coogan, Deaf artists Lianne Quigley and Alvean Jones with Dublin Theatre of the Deaf (DTD), Cork Deaf Community Choir and students from the Centre for Deaf Studies (CDS) at Trinity College Dublin.

Freude! Freude! is a live exhibition, an embodied performance and installation which translates Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ode to Joy chorus into Irish Sign Language (ISL) and reinterprets the entire symphony through the lens of the Deaf experience. Using ISL as a choreographic language, Coogan, Quigley and Jones have worked with DTD and students from the CDS to produce an aural, visual and immersive feast that will be presented through a series of performances and exhibition installation.

Amanda Coogan is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across media; through live art, performance, photography and video.

Amanda Coogan presents solo performances of Movements from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at between 1pm - 3pm

• Wednesday 11 & 18 October: Movement 1
• Thursday 12 & 19 October: Movement 2
• Friday 13 & 20 October: Movement 3

Coogan, Quigley, Jones and ensemble performs to the full score of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, including the Ode to Joy Chorus, between 1pm – 3pm

• Saturday 14 and 21 October: Full score
• Sunday 15 and 22 October: Full score

The exhibition continues until Sunday 29 October. No booking is required, and admission is free as always.

Image: Amanda Coogan, Dublin Theatre of the Deaf and the Cork Deaf Choir, Ode to Joy (performance still), 2023, Cork Midsummer Festival. Courtesy of the artist. Photography by Jed Niezgoda.