Daniel O’Shea
Lighting Designer, Technical Director, Lead Filmmaker, Film Editor
Daniel O’Shea makes theatre, designs projections, and creates films, using technology and design as a keystone to support narrative and deepen dramaturgy. In his own works PKD Workshow (2013) and Are we not drawn onward to new era (2018), Daniel employs a low-fi DYI aesthetic, making circuits by weaving wires and exposing the guts of the machinery as a metaphorical parallel to the convoluting ideas of existential discourses. Currently his work focuses on states of presence, unbalancing audienceship and novel constructions of light through design and new media. In the last few years, Daniel’s artistic research has explored the ephemeral nature of a ‘self’, interruptions of technology on human processes, and the results of cognitive dissonance.
Presented by Performance Studies international (PSi), Festival Of Recorded Movement, and Shooting Gallery and elsewhere, Daniel’s work has been seen in Canada and internationally and is a founding member of A Wake Of Vultures. Daniel is engaged with Vancouver’s thriving contemporary performance scene and recently completed a three screen feature length experimental documentary, shot in Hong Kong in 2017 called If I Was To Retain You.