Niamh Peren Bubblegum
Bubblegum
Bubblegum (2008) is a performative piece that has screened on National TV in Austria (thanks to arts program Helix), at Egyetemleges Film Festival in Budapest and at the Hokianga Outpost, NZ. As a projected film, Bubblegum embodies illumination, and was inspired by the massive blobs of sticky residue parading Auckland's streets, gum. The visceral chewing of eight pieces of Hubba Bubba bubblegum queries the healthiness of the process for both human and landscape. Can it stick people together?
Niamh Peren
Niamh Peren studied fine art at Elam where she won the Best Moving Image prize for 2010 film, The Great Bunny Hunt. Since graduating with First Class Honours, Niamh has focused on finishing off a conjoint degree in Anthropology and History at the University of Auckland. An actress, artist and film maker, Niamh has worked extensively since 2005, most recently showing The Great Bunny Hunt at the Papakura Art Gallery’s 'Animal Incarnations' exhibition. Outside of New Zealand, her shorts Moustache Me Oh My and Bubblegum have played on Channel Okto (Austria). The latter was also screened along with another of Niamh’s shorts, Waterlord, at the Egyetemleges Film Festival (Hungary). As an actor Niamh appeared in Stephen Kang's 2011 Cannes award-winner Blue, and Florian Habicht's Rubbings from a Live Man, in which she also worked as Assistant Art Director. She was interviewer, Co-Director, Co-Director of Photography and Creative Consultant on Habicht’s 2009 film, Land of the Long White Cloud.