Against the Waning Light
Uillinn Dance Season 2025

Against the Waning Light I Film Screening I Paul Murnaghan, Cindy Cummings, Nina McGowan

Thursday 30 October to Tuesday 4 November I 10:00am to 4:45pm I Free entry I

 Gallery III I 26 mins on loop I Age guide 10+ I

A video installation from artist/director Paul Murnaghan that follows artist and freediver Nina McGowan, with choreography by Cindy Cummins, and soundtrack composed by Murnaghan. Merging human and non-human landscapes, retracing an ancient departure, from deep seabed to forested hills.

About the Artist/ Company

Paul Murnaghan is multidisciplinary artist working with the substance of belief. His projects explore points of . intersection between things spiritual, scientific and psychological. Content is gathered through public experiment, research and by engaging in utopian quests. Results from this process vary greatly but the more
tangible elements develop as moving image, sound, installation and music composition. He has curated more than thirty exhibitions in Ireland with numerous national and international exhibitions of his work as an artist.

Cindy Cummings is a freelance dance artist who creates original collaborative works with dance, theatre, visual, sound, literary and media artists around the world for live performance, installation and film. Unifying her practice are several themes: the vulnerable and mutable place of the body within contemporary society;
the centrality of play and humor as tools of creative interrogation; and a passion for scientific ideas, rigor and innovation. Cindy is based in Co Kilkenny where she works with award winning Asylum Productions and is a facilitator on the Inclusive Dance Cork course at Dance Cork Firkin Crane. Since 2007 Cindy has been a member of Aosdána.

Nina McGowan is a Dublin born visual artist and professional freediver. Her work explores transcendence, and the primacy of the experiencing body. Recent commissions include a collaboration with Trinity College Dublin on a Creative Ireland Climate Action project titled ’House on the Beach’ (2025). She is an ambassador for the Captain Paul Watson Foundation.

Credits

Director/writer – Paul Murnaghan

Actor/freediver/dancer – Nina McGowan

Choreographer – Cindy Cummins

Acknowledgments 

This work was made with the support of the Arts Council Visual Arts Project Award.