“No More is my interpretation of what resides in memory”  

Two filmed events, which take place at the same time in two different parts of Europe, come together some 40 years later, in a memory of things past.  

In the first, broadcast on the BBC on the eve of August 8th, 1971, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner, announces the introduction of Internment. In 'No More', this footage is intercut with that of Ryszard Cieślak, lead actor from the Polish Laboratory Theater Company. Cieślak’s, demonstrates body exercises (derived from Hatha Yoga) designed to allow the practitioner to go beyond ‘their own personal limitations’.  

In combining both performances’, questions are asked about authoritative power and control over freedoms of expression.  

the political as personal,  

the private as public,  

the dark as light,  

the closing as opening,  

the real as imagined  

the dream as real.  

*No More is held in the National Collection of Ireland at The Irish Museum of Modern Art.