LIVE LAUGH SLUG™
SARAH DEVEREUX
CERAMICS and TEXT:
2022
Live Laugh Slug™
Inspired by fibromyalgia™* and a constant use of the expression “feeling sluggish” Sarah Devereux embraces this enforced Slug State™. Using the slug as the ultimate symbol of slowing down, Devereux began to question ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING ABOUT LIFE while spending these past 2 years in an experiment trying to balance her energy between Work™ and REST OF LIFE™. How can a glam, wild, ridiculous performer and CONSTANTLY BUSY AND HUSTLING CREATIVE GAL ABOUT TOWN learn to un-Dick Van Dyke myself?**
After many years of being in a constant state of production within her arts practice Devereux became interested in interrogating ideas around labour & capitalist production. Her practice explores a chaotic ideal of MORE IS MORE. Under the umbrella of play LIVE LAUGH SLUG™ challenges this by embracing slowness & skills based process “I like your manifesto, put it to the test-o” The LIVE LAUGH SLUG manifesto is to reimagine joyful anti-productivity.***
This work includes an invitation to the first meeting of the SLUG PEOPLE™ who want to LIVE LAUGH SLUG and relearn to live through embracing their inner slug. The meeting takes place on Sunday 21st August from 2pm.
*is a condition that causes pain all over the body, chronic fatigue, sleep problems, emotional and mental distress
**Ya know in Mary Poppins where he has the whole band on his back, this is the reference.
***Ask her about her dream AKA the real reason she made her ceramic piece.
SARAH
DEVEREUX
Sarah Devereux is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice traverses both visual arts & performance. Her practice stems from the deeply personal, relating to mental and emotional states, explored through the central themes of labour, humour & play to form connection to
the audience. Sarah’s work often accumulates as immersive & experiential exhibitions or events where the audience upgrades to participants. Sarah strives for her work to always embody the state of being “Fun-erable”- A state she is claiming as her own, a means of making vulnerability, fun!
Her recent achievements include “Let’s Get Fun-erable!” a commission by Dublin Fringe Festival 2021. She is Artist in Residence at VISUAL Carlow, 2020-2022. “My Fringe Show”, at Dublin Fringe Festival, was nominated for The Spirit of Wit:Moira Brady Averill Award 2019. She is co-founder of acclaimed Dublin-based, queer performance event SPICEBAG. She has performed at numerous festivals & events across the country. She has been a member of A4 Sounds Studios since 2016, making her a part of the furniture at this stage.
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sarahdevereux1@gmail.com