2022 Script excerpt Two-channel HD video, 07:13 Black text on white background reads: ‘remembering the closeness I simply began’. The last three words are highlighted in yellow.
2022 Hand-rubbed woodcuts on paper, inked printing plates and audio equipment. Performance with Georgica Pettus. Prints, 594 x 841 mm each. Three blue woodcut prints are mounted on a white wall, with three inked printing plates leaning below. Two empty chairs are placed back-to-back, each with headphones and microphone stands.
2022 Digital print 218 x 78 mm Black and grey digital print of scanned bubble wrap. The image is distorted.
2022 Script excerpt Two-channel HD video, 07:13 Black text on white background reads: ‘remembering the closeness I simply began’. The last three words are highlighted in yellow.
Eleanor McCullough
Eleanor McCullough’s work as an artist, writer and archivist is to care for the residues of other people’s stories. She searches for moments of intimacy within archives and listens for the voices of women whose role it has been to maintain the legacy of a loved one.
Gathering fragments of biographical material like recorded interviews, letters, lists and notes, McCullough discharges the narratives of these often-overlooked figures through writing, moving image, audio, and various forms of image making. The processes she employs are methodical and repetitive, drawing on feminist practice of the echo, a mode of poetic analysis known as deformance, and psychoanalytical methods of deep listening.
Aiming to address an imbalance, McCullough’s work speaks to the absence of these memory workers from our cultural consciousness, while amplifying the contradictions implicit within notions of dependency, dedication, and debt.