To mark Daffodil Day 2025 Hawk’s Well Theatre hosts Mammary Mountain (VR experience) by Sligo based artist Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille Baker, and Maf’j Alvarez.
Tara Baoth Mooney will also talk about the experience in an informal panel conversation with special guests on Sunday at 6pm.
Mammary Mountain is an intimate immersive story and embodied haptic experience that explores dis-ease within the body and its relationship to the broader context of the land through the breast cancer journey. These pressing themes and social realities are explored through the prism of artist Tara Baoth Mooney’s experience of breast cancer, interwoven with patients’ and survivors’ stories of their cancer treatment, recovery and post treatment trauma.
The result is a piece of work with many deep roots, bringing together the personal and the collective, the abstract and the representational, in an intimate and far-reaching investigation of eco-psychosocial models of human-landscape interaction. The work hopes to ignite new public engagement, validate survivors’ experiences and inform others, ultimately resulting in a more nuanced empathic and holistic understanding of the breast cancer treatment experience.
Mammary Mountain has previously exhibited at Venice International Film Festival in Italy, Digital Cultures Festival in Poland, BFI London Film Festival in the UK, and Art + VR Festival in the Czech Republic.
About the Artists
Tara Baoth Mooney is an interdisciplinary artist whose work responds to events past and present that explore lived experience and the inter-relationship of people with daily ritual, plants, nonhuman life forms and objects within their respective ecologies and practice.
Camille Baker is a maker of participatory performance and immersive artworks, through expressive non-verbal communication, extended embodiment and presence in real, mixed reality and interactive artworks, using XR, haptics, wearable devices and mobile media.
Maf’j Alvarez is a digital media artist and creative technologist living in Brighton, UK. Her work focuses on ecology, cultural and gender diversity in relation to open access to technology. She also works as a user experience designer on large-scale digital transformation projects for government services.Mammary Mountain was funded by Arts Council England, Create, The Arts Council of Ireland, Leitrim County Council Arts Office, and Root Interactive.
