Adrift  explores the histories of island mobility and everyday life. Initially focusing on the relationship between mobility access and gender disparity, the work sought to create an open space for dialogue on island experiences of freedom, restriction, and exclusion.  

Taking discarded floorboards from an island house, a fully functioning raft was designed to stage discussions and interviews at different island coves, beaches, and docks.  Through this process, construction techniques are discussed, launch sites considered, weather and tides negotiated. 

Interviews and conversations reflected on women and land, women and the sea, access to mobility, boats, freedom of movement. Excerpts from the conversations become interpreted, staged and performed as allegorical acts. Co-produced with islanders and communities, Adrift stages heterotopic forms to explore the unspoken histories of everyday life in island contexts.

Photos courtesy of Robbie Murphy, Ann Burns and Sinead McCormick