Paul Moore
NONARNIA, 2016
Public performance / participatory project / social media archive
Newtownards Road, East Belfast
Street performance / public intervention / processional action / video / photography / online archive
Documentation: Robin Price, John Boucher
Unsettlement, 2017
Installation
Platform Arts, Belfast
Video / sculptural assemblage / performance documentation / found materials / monitors / scaffolding
Developed from the NONARNIA project
Documentation: Simon Mills and David Bunting
NONARNIA / Unsettlement developed from a series of public actions, performances and installations responding to redevelopment, displacement and the changing identity of East Belfast.
The project used the wardrobe as a recurring object: part domestic structure, part absurd monument, part protest symbol. Moving between street performance, social media participation, processional action and gallery installation, the work explored how fantasy, regeneration and cultural branding can reshape a place, and what becomes unsettled or displaced in the process.