Dark Dark Mouth is a body of performance, drawing, and installation work by Dominic Thorpe, which addresses perpetrator trauma and the Irish Civil War (1922-23) in Cork. Perpetrator trauma is an often under-explored aspect of conflict. It can be experienced by individuals and groups struggling to comprehend and process violence for which they have been directly or indirectly responsible. In Dark Dark Mouth, Thorpe takes various instances of Irish Civil War killings in Cork City as his starting point and gives expression to the perpetrator trauma that can mark and seep into individual, collective, and generational experiences in the aftermath of violence. Presented as part of the Building as Witness programme, Dark Dark Mouth is accompanied by a performance (25 January) and Perpetrator Trauma: A Discussion (27 January). To read more about these events, visit here.