Crickets - Bea McMahon

This is a screening of a work-in-progress of a potential six-part TV series titled Crickets by visual artist Bea McMahon and a crew of collaborators; Deniz Buga, Artémise Ploegaerts, Nathan O'Donnell, and Díc Walsh, among others.

Working in the genre of 'cringe tragedy' and improvising script, set, characters, costumes and direction on location in France and Ireland, this event marks an
opportunity to delve behind the scenes and hear about the production process from the inside out.

The event is developed in collaboration with Kunstverein Aughrim.

Bea McMahon

Bea McMahon uses many different media including sculpture, performance, song, dance, moving image and installation, often working in collaboration with others. Trained in mathematics and mathematical physics, she navigates through conceptions of reality and their corresponding appearances in the outside world. Recent collaborations include Crickets, a TV series shot in various locations including Treignac Projet and Kunstverein Aughrim (ongoing); Another Shot at Love, a romantic comedy commissioned for the 40th EVA biennale in Limerick, 2023; live performance with lip-synching pop group Dina from Egypt in I’ll be your Mirror, Hugh Lane Gallery, 2023 and pop-video-smash-hits magazine launch at Framerframed, Amsterdam 2024. Recent exhibitions include God, a two-person exhibition with Conor McFeely, The Complex, Dublin; Animal Farm, Paper Biennale, Museum Rijkswijk, The Hague, 2024; Sequins, with Maaike Schoorel at Shimmer, Rotterdam, 2023; Floppy Forest at Treignac Projet, 2021; and group shows Ad Ampio Respira, Artopia Gallery, Milan 2022 and Under Bat Hill at W139, Amsterdam 2021.