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The Stars Have Eyes, 2025
In The Stars Have Eyes, suspense, thriller, and horror film stills, recorded performances, and animations are remixed and re-contextualized to create a subversive visual language. The artist inserts herself into iconic cinematic scenes, becoming both voyeur and participant. These interventions disrupt dominant narratives, drawing attention to the sexual, psychological, and phenomenological subtext often embedded in representations of femininity in media. Referencing traditions of graphic novels, video art, and cinema, the work navigates feminisms, power dynamics, and creative agency. The imagery oscillates between the humorous, abject, and disturbing, recalling the oppressive history of women’s roles in media.
Alfred Hitchcock’s films, long critiqued for their psychological complexity serve as key source material. At the center of this work is the artist's persona, Heady Desire, who infiltrates and reclaims acts of cinematic voyeurism. She embodies and embraces the feminine with her soft, folded fleshiness and dripping excess. As watcher, director, and creative subverter, she dismantles the passive female archetype, transforming notions of excess into a site of empowerment. What was once "too much" is reimagined as empowered desire and creative agency.
Themes of consciousness, time, and the cosmos emerge as embodied experiences. Through layered imagery and temporal dislocation, the work evokes dream states, liminality, and the porous boundary between self and other. Heady Desire becomes a vessel through which time alters perception and the feminine body becomes a conduit for philosophical interconnections between space, time, and consciousness.
Venus Rising, 2020
Single Channel Video, 8:07
Venus Rising is a single channel video and sound work exploring the dismantling of patriarchal systems and a call back to feminine wisdom.
A chant to the moon ritualizing the crumbling effigies of patriarchy opens the first scene of Venus Rising. A woman is seen summoning new life as she dances in a cloud of microbes. What is hidden becomes visible as her rhythmic and undulating body conjures natural forces. Electromagnetic phenomena cuts through the atmosphere as she performs her ritual. A planetary, social, and spiritual awakening is taking place. What lies ahead is unknown. The path has been set in motion and now must be followed through.
Venus Rising is a visual and sonic response to this unprecedented moment of global change. It embodies hope for human resilience and a message of returning to earth-centered wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence as a way to heal environmental and systemic injustices and begin anew.
Creation Myth, 2019
Animation/Video, Sound, 11:28
Creation Myth is an expanded media project that explores a futuristic world born from the impacts of climate change and destructive technologies. The work depicts a creation myth of how its world came to be, exploring evolution and the impact of the age of the Anthropocene upon life’s delicate balance. The recurring image of a mushroom cloud recalls an event from the deep past which set earth changes in motion. In this new world, natural selection determined what life would be supported and sustained. The biological, technological, and spiritual merge. Life forms take on robotic qualities and landscapes are haunting and unforgiving. The absence of green and plant life speaks to the horror of imagining the reality of a futuristic barren world. The death of flesh and the human body suggests a time when transcending the human species became necessary for life to re-emerge. The work is comprised of large 2D/3D digital print collage assemblages, objects, and moving image and sound work. The future vision for this work is an immersive installation environment in which the viewer enters and experiences a comprehensive world.
Ether and the Voice: an Electronic Media Opera, 2010
Single Channel Videos
Ether and the Voice: an electronic media opera is an exploration of female voice, technology and identity. Keough creates a world of symbolic and linguistic fantasy, exploring the disembodied voice, electronic environment, personal drama and the archetypal and psychological structures of the interior.
The narrative explores the phenomena of the disembodied voice and the fragmentation of identity and language through electronic modes of communication and identification. The work investigates older technologies as media devices which initially dislocated the voice from the body such as radio, the telephone and the phonograph, and parallels that phenomena with the splintering and hybridization of virtual identity, digital communication, and language thus expressing a profile of the posthuman. Click the thumbnail for the gallery.
iLook, 2014
Single Channel Video
The replicated (digital) image takes on its own signification reminding us of the fabrication of identity and our ability to digitally alter our appearance and personal narrative. We live in the age of the repeated and fragmented. We gaze at our Other selves with the same starry eyed hypnosis Narcissus experienced when consumed by his own reflection. This Other has a life of its own, its own identity, function and destiny.
"iLook" explores this notion of looking and psycho-feedback through a series of visual collages. The video moves slowly allowing the viewer to look, linger and watch. The image of the artist distorts and multiplies creating an imaginative space where copies of copies mingle and coexist. Image fragments multiply and join creating new forms and curiosities. Imagery shifts from sensual to abject evoking the scopophilic, and allowing the viewer to luxuriate in the act of looking with the added dimension of being conscious of their voyeurism.
iSeek, 2014
Single Channel Video
iSeek, the second video in the series iLook, iSeek, iAm, shifts the artists focus from self exploration and imaging, to mediations behind the lens.
Here, the mythic is embedded in the landscape. We move through stretches of meditative moments. Some meandering and unhinged, others contemplative and still. The soundtrack shapes these meditations through field recordings, silence, and an original piano string composition. The fluctuation of sound, and the play between sound and image, speaks to the profound effect the natural environment has on our imagination and consciousness.
iAm, 2014
Single Channel Video
In the video work "iAm", the myth of narcissus is reenacted, further exploring the multiplicity and dimensionality of identity. The pool has woken. Reflections break free from the loop of hypnotic psycho-feedback. Artifacts surface from the depths, these totems of self bob up and down in the water, and later appear as ritual objects, protruding from the ears, and piercing the skin and skull. The initiation has begun, reflections have inverted, turning in on themselves in pursuit of their own evolution and transformation.
VILLUSION, 2015
Single Channel Video
VILLUSION explores the illusion and artifice of the screen. A microscopic camera scans the pages of a vintage Pin-Up girl publication revealing the patterns and textures of analogue printing methods. The magnified view speaks to the mechanisms of media and the illusion and artifice of image reproduction and representation.
Welcome to Global Cone, 2009
Single Channel Video
In “Welcome to Global Cone” Keough creates three distinct characters who express their anxieties about the climate crisis and the state of the economy. The viewer enters their miniature sized world and is directly addressed when asked for their order. Issues concerning the environment, the economy, natural resources and corporate agendas are subtly woven through the monologue’s of each character. The work humorously highlights the emotional and psychological distress of living on a deteriorating planet.
InLuma 2008
Single Channel Video
The single channel video work InLuma speaks to the phenomena of bio-electric communication and organic consciousness. The imagined organisms fuse and separate creating new bodies and electrical connections thus expressing the deeply embedded order of natural systems.
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