Month: May 2023

Photos from Final Day of the La Pocha Nostra Workshop April 2023

On the final day of the accelerated La Pocha Nostra Workshop 2023 we made a film of the process This film will be edited in collaboration with La Pocha Nostra later this year “In this cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational intensive, participants are exposed to the ‘Pocha Method’, an eclectic combination of exercises borrowed from multiple […]

AGM 2023

Our AGM will be held via Zoom on the 12 of June 2023 at 7pm We asking members to put themselves forward for positions on the board including secretary, chair and member of board We invite all members of Live Art Ireland to attend and have a say in the direction of your own special […]

Soil Sabbathical

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Aideen Barry

Aideen Barry is a practising Visual Artist based in Ireland but with international representation. In 2020 she was elected to the RHA. She is a member of Aosdána and Lectures in several universities and schools of visual art in Ireland, the US and Europe.  Barry is an artist whose work encompasses a vast range of […]

Alex Billingham

Live Art IrelandResults – Fluid bodies 001Alex Billingham27/05/23What form does survival take when it begins from a position outside of the cis white male?How does trans survival taste?When you add in a dash of Neuro spicy?Where can Crip survival form itself in safety?I began with a picture of a brightly painted arctic survival shelter and […]

Christopher Linforth

Christopher was our second writer in residence During the soil residency, I have been working on revising, maybe even rewilding, some flash fiction for a new collection: Sauna Culture. From the story, “Genealogia” My other self rarely asks questions about me. He exists on a parallel plane, superior in his mind, concerned with the strange lives […]

Fay Burnett

I arrived at the SOIL residency, with a bag of peat, collected from Knockmore on Clare Island. I felta preciousness in the peat, derived partly from my feeling of ‘hiraeth’ – homesickness, for theisland. I found this feeling to mirror the current precious reality of the bogland; as it rests andrestores, it is now recognised […]

Julie Lockett

 Julie Lockett is an independent dance artist who lives and works in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Co. Tipperary – a lived response to the climate crisis.   Julie creates work over an extended period of several months in order to build a multitude of themes and meanings in her work for herself and her audience.  Her practice comprises […]

Grass: Open Call

GRASS – APPLICATION DEADLINE May 22nd This OPEN CALL for Artists in Residence from June to November 2023 at LIVE ART IRELANDAT MILFORD HOUSE. Residencies 3-6 weeks from available from May 30th to August 5th and from September 1st to November 30th. The residency is called ‘Grass’ because it asks artists to look down and […]

Annie Hogg

Coming to the SOIL Residency, I held the seed of an idea looking at soils and their microbiallife in a context of communication. This was originally to be explored in a kinetic, time-lapseeffect of creating environment through which growth and mould development could occur.Through-out my time here, however, the idea for this new installation has […]