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
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 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 – 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
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