Using a process-based performance methodology, Rocky’s live performance work enable him to use his body as architecture and infrastructure within specific environments. Presenting his body as material and a vessel for the embodiment of artifacts, gathering traces from the natural world, he uses his body as a tool implementing the dual processes of mapping and tracing the landscape.

Rocky’s site responsive performances further explore this idea of the body as architecture, responding through performative actions, gestures, and movements to site, positioning the work within a contextual framework. He positions his body within internal architectural spaces immersing and engaging with structures and found objects as a form of human architecture.

Bio
Rocky Meaney is an Irish performance artist from County Clare, based in Limerick City in the Republic of Ireland. He holds a Master of Arts Fine Art, First Class Honours Degree from T.U.S/L.S.A.D Technological University of the Shannon Midwest – Limerick School of Art & Design, Limerick, Rep. of Ireland. His Live Art Practice is firmly rooted in the areas of Time-Based Performance Art, Site – Specific and Site – Responsive Performance, with a strong emphasis on Performance Drawing. Rocky works primarily in the mediums of live – art performance, moving image and drawing.