Kelly O'Connor

Video Work

O’Connor’s video work traverses a world of exploration and exchanges. She uses the camera as a tool in her investigations, where it becomes thrust right into the action. This turbulent interaction is then sistered with its opposite, in silent and often tender observational sequences.

Most of the videos on this page are from ‘The Mortgage Series’, about the supposed impending demolition of her childhood home. The project to date includes videos, photographs and drawings. Five of the videos below are from this project [‘Are We there Yet?’ (2:55mins), ‘The Green Light’ (2:20mins), ‘Homesick Triptych’ (2:10mins), ‘Navigating The Mortgage’ (2:45mins) and ‘Marbulus Interuptus’ (4:20mins)]

Many of these videos are expressed through the guises of a child, as she struggles with understanding the inevitability of loss. Each piece communicates small details of the rituals and nuances of her home space.

Click on the images below to view 20 second clips of each video.

Are We There Yet?

The Green Light

Homesick Triptych

Navigating The Mortgage

Marblus interuptus

‘Bye Bye Baby’ was born from experimentation with the camera, using it as a tool to develop the idea of the viewer becoming proprietor of the acts being watched. It is also concerned with pleasure/pain borders.

‘Mnemonic’ is part of a series dealing with memory loss. O’Connor experiments with editing, using short jumps, various camera angles and underlying images combined with indecipherable sound to create a type of blurred unreality often associated with the recall of memory.

Mnemonic

Bye Bye Baby

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