convergence2023

Convergence Festival Open Call

On 26 April 2023 by

Live Art Ireland together with Livestock are collaborating to create the second instalment of Performance Art, sound art, and dance art festival ‘Convergence’ Curated by Deej Fabyc, Francis Fay & Sandra Corrigan Breathnach.
We are calling for proposals for six solo or artist collective performances that will be taking place at Live Art Ireland’s Ealaín Bheo Centre for Art Research and Development here in North Tipperary on the 25th and 26th of August 2023.
Artists selected are invited to come here as artists in residence with accommodation provided for up to three weeks before the event in August in order to make the work site specific. We are asking artists to consider the climate emergency within the context of rural Ireland
We are looking for new works created for the event that may be site specific. Information re the space can be found by visiting https://www.live-art.ie/milford-house/
Selected artists will receive a 250 Euro artists fee.
Application Deadline | 30th June 2023
Application Information:

  • Please send a short Bio. of no more than 200 words
  • Please send 1 high quality 300 dpi image of a performance made in within the past two years
  • Please send 3 links to an online source to view your work (Websites or instagram etc.)
  • Please send an outline of your proposed performance – (Please Note This Must be a New Work) 250 Words MAX.
  • Please Note – Applications are welcome in a non traditional form from artists with additional access needs. Please contact Deej at live.art.ireland@gmail.com to make arrangements.
  • please find the link to the online application form below

Live Art Ireland and Livestock are performance art organisations that strongly believe that creativity and the arts are for all. We are committed that Convergence will be an inclusive equal opportunities event, which strives to be open to artists from every background, we welcome applications from artists of different religious beliefs and political opinion, different ethnicities, differing marital status and sexual orientation, gender and persons with disabilities and additional access needs, persons with dependents and persons without.

Image Kelvin Atmadibrata Convergence 2022 Live Art Ireland photo by Jordan Hutchings