Jordan Hearns
Jordan Hearns (b. Laois, 1995) is an Irish lens-based artist, working between the still and moving image. His practice explores the significance of private spaces as vessels for individualism and expression, explored within the contexts of time, memory and ephemerality. His still image work pertains to an ongoing documentation of transient street flowers, short-lived clubbing spaces and fleeting, often anonymous romantic connections. Recently, he has moved towards a mixed media output, centring his current practice around the moving image, textual publications and sound design. Publications include i-D, Adonis, GCN, District Magazine, DJ Mag, Sabukaru, and more.
We Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet (We Will Dance Again)
We Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet (We Will Dance Again) is a socially engaged, mixed media project that documents and illustrates the newfound realities of clubbers in Ireland and beyond, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Presented in a variety of mediums, the project aims to represent the thoughts, feelings and actualities of a range of subjects in a variety of locales concerning their experiences of clubbing, the importance of these spaces for their personal and communal growth, and their desires for post-pandemic club life.
The project is presented in three parts: We Will Dance Again is a 48-page A3 tabloid publication featuring six long-form interviews with a total of seven subjects. Each interview is illustrated with a series of 35mm still images taken pre-pandemic in the spaces mentioned throughout the text; Dancing (Removed) is a series of four individual moving image presentations depicting four subjects dancing in their bedrooms. The subjects dance to a song of their choice, discuss what dancing means to them and how they experience dancing now that clubbing spaces are no longer available; Raveyne, a 60-minute HD video/audio presentation that highlights the loss of human interaction within Ireland’s nightlife-dedicated spaces. It features a 59-minute DJ mix curated by the artist, as well as a series of verbal snippets taken from the audio recordings of interviews featured in the accompanying publication.
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