Amanda Coogan – Freude! Freude!

QSS artist Amanda Coogan in collaboration with, Deaf artists Lianne Quigley and Alvean Jones with Dublin Theatre of the Deaf (DTD), Cork Deaf Community Choir (CDCC), and students from the Centre for Deaf Studies (CDS) at Trinity College Dublin will present new work, Freude! Freude!, at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dublin.

Freude! Freude! is a live exhibition, an embodied performance and installation which translates Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ode to Joy chorus into Irish Sign Language (ISL) and reinterprets the entire symphony through the lens of the Deaf experience. Using ISL as a choreographic language, Coogan, Quigley and Jones have worked with DTD, CDCC, and students from the CDS to produce an aural, visual and immersive feast that will be presented through a series of performances and exhibition installation.

More Information on the project and associated events can be found here: Freude! Freude!

Exhibition Dates (Gallery 1): 11.10.23 — 29.10.23

Live Performance Schedule

Amanda Coogan presents solo performances of Movements from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 between 1pm and 3pm

• Wednesday 11 and 18 October: Movement 1
• Thursday 12 and 19 October: Movement 2
• Friday 13 and 20 October: Movement 3

Coogan, Quigley, Jones and ensemble perform to the full score of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, including the Ode to Joy Chorus, at 1pm

• Saturday 14 and 21 October: Full score
• Sunday 15 and 22 October: Full score

The exhibition continues until Sunday 29 October.