Máiréad Delaney works in performance. Her practice of embodied speech acts— sort of emergency gestures— attempts a simultaneous holding-at bay and an affective entrance into its structure of feeling. Delaney understands these gestures as applying pressure to pressure, so we might register the systemic, continuous effects of harm, injustice and grief over time.
She has exhibited internationally and has presented work in the Science Gallery Dublin, in partnership with MoMA’s Design and Violence, The Ulster Museum in Belfast, at MANA Contemporary Chicago, The Queens Museum, The Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, the VI International Biennial of Performance DEFORMES, Performance is Alive at Satellite Art Show, Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, the Brooklyn International Festival of Performance Art, at ]performance space[, EXPO Chicago, and Art Basel Miami. Her artist residencies include the MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Skowhegan Painting and Sculpture, and the Corporation of Yaddo.
