Public feeling / FALLOUT
Sarah Browne | AOB Arts Management
Public feeling is an artwork about health and austerity shaped by fitness choreography.
Each class (an aquafit class, a circuit class and a virtual spin class) is delivered by a qualified fitness instructor, and accompanied by a musical score and scripted soundtrack. This participatory project explores ‘feelings’ – like joy, shame, anger and depression – not only as individual emotions, but as shared social realities, and asks how we can occupy the everyday space of the gym or leisure centre to re-imagine and re-work these collective experiences.
FALLOUT is a circuit class that uses re-purposed everyday objects to train functional movements, developed in collaboration with Gareth Francis. This class can provide individual coaching if needed and exercises can be adapted for different levels of strength and fitness. This class is not wheelchair-accessible. FALLOUT features newly commissioned writing by Colm Keegan.
Gareth Francis is a former competitive boxer and highly qualified personal trainer with over eight years’ experience in sport and fitness. Gareth is the head coach at Kickstart Fitness, which employs six coaches and teaches up to 50 classes weekly including HIIT, TRX and strength & conditioning. Kickstart began as a pay-as-you-go bootcamp in a local park during the recession and is now based in Brookfield Enterprise Centre, Tallaght. www.kickstartfitness.ie
Produced by AOB Arts Management
Public feeling by Sarah Browne has been commissioned by South Dublin County Council through IN CONTEXT 4 – IN OUR TIME and funded under the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government’s Per Cent for Art Scheme.
