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Wounded Healer audio visual piece 'Grief as a Ghost' https://www.stpatricksfestival.ie/events/transitions-sorca-mc-grath12th - 17th March 2021 Sorca McGrath is a musician, vocalist and audiovisual artist. She was a recipient of the RTE Choice Music Prize for her work on the album Precession with the band Ships, she also writes under her own name and through the Wounded Healer moniker as a solo artist. Wounded Healer is a process based audiovisual project, examining rupture and repair as agents of change. Her audiovisual piece 'Grief as a Ghost' was written to be performed live in March 2020, for the St. Patrick’s festival, which was postponed due to the rupture of life as we knew it, as the global pandemic landed on the shores of Ireland. Almost a year later, as live performances remain out of reach for the time being, Grief as a Ghost was filmed in February 2021 by a small masked crew, in the incredible surrounds of St. Finnian’s Bay, Co. Kerry. Thanks to the hosts at The Driftwood Surf Cafe and the attentive arrangements for artist and crew, by Emmet Condon of Homebeat, a once off performance was captured with the hint of silhouettes of the Skellig Islands and the wild Atlantic sea as the backdrop. The piece as described by Sorca “is a prayer of loss and love that weaves augmented vocals, sounds and visuals in response to each other, creating a unique tapestry of sound and vision through each passing.” She adds, “It was created with a live audience in mind, as an immersive experience, but hopefully as we’ve all had to find ways to immerse ourselves in experiences in our small intimate spaces at home, some of its communal intention will come alive through the film that was captured”.
Sorca McGrath 