Tremble Tremble by Irish artist Jesse Jones was developed in partnership with the Pavilion of Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale.
Tremble Tremble is a multimedia installation which reimagines feminist history and the law. Its title is inspired by the Wages for Housework Campaign from an Italian feminist movement in the 1970s, during which women chanted Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate!Tremble Tremble by Irish artist Jesse Jones, developed in partnership with the Pavilion of Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale.
Tremble Tremble is a multimedia installation which reimagines feminist history and the law. Its title is inspired by the Wages for Housework Campaign from an Italian feminist movement in the 1970s, during which women chanted Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate! [Tremble, tremble, the witches have returned!]. In the work, Jones returns to the witch as a feminist archetype and disrupter who has the potential to transform reality and institutions of law.
The installation features a film starring Irish actress Olwen Fouéré performing a script written by Jesse Jones. The script draws on Jones’s research into the relationship between women, the law and the witchcraft trials that took place across Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Two large images of Fouéré’s body printed on curtains are drawn across the gallery at intervals. Together, these elements create a form of expanded cinema that imagines a different legal order, one in which the multitude are bought together in a gigantic, symbolic body to proclaim a new law capable of ‘bewitching’ the legal system.
The exhibition follows Jesse Jones’ residency at LASALLE in July and August. The installation at the ICA Singapore will include sculptural elements inspired by Jones’s research on the archive of LASALLE founder Brother Joseph McNally, and the role of archives in the construction of institutions.
Originally commissioned and curated by Tessa Giblin, Director of Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, for the Pavilion of Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017)
Curated by Bala Starr, Director, ICA Singapore [Tremble, tremble, the witches have returned!]. In the work, Jones returns to the witch as a feminist archetype and disrupter who has the potential to transform reality and institutions of law.
The installation features a film starring Irish actress Olwen Fouéré performing a script written by Jesse Jones. The script draws on Jones’s research into the relationship between women, the law and the witchcraft trials that took place across Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Two large images of Fouéré’s body printed on curtains are drawn across the gallery at intervals. Together, these elements create a form of expanded cinema that imagines a different legal order, one in which the multitude are bought together in a gigantic, symbolic body to proclaim a new law capable of ‘bewitching’ the legal system.
The exhibition follows Jesse Jones’ residency at LASALLE in July and August. The installation at the ICA Singapore will include sculptural elements inspired by Jones’s research on the archive of LASALLE founder Brother Joseph McNally, and the role of archives in the construction of institutions.
Originally commissioned and curated by Tessa Giblin, Director of Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, for the Pavilion of Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017)
Curated by Bala Starr, Director, ICA Singapore
Opening date: Fri 3 Nov 2017, 6:30pm
Exhibition period: 4 Nov 2017 – 28 Jan 2018
Opening hours: 12:00pm – 7:00pm, Tue to Sun
Closed on Mon and public holidays
Venue: Gallery 1, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE, 1 McNally Street
When: 4 Nov - 28 Jan 2017,
By: LASALLE College of the Arts
