/ PERFORMANCES Venus Patel Venus Patel is a transfemme artist of colour based in Dublin, working primarily in performance and film. She recently graduated from TU Dublin with a BA in Fine Arts, and her first solo exhibition “Monsters of the Apocalypse” opened April 2023 in Pallas Projects, Dublin. Patel uses her work to
the landscape is an archival process of covering and uncovering layerings of stories and unheard voices compressed, exposed, covered, re-covered and recovered. earthed stories: i’m exploring edges and borders, boundaries and interfaces between ‘borderlands’ – here it is as mud is – between water and land – not mixing but holding particles both bonded and
The Convergence 2023 artists Performances Venus Patel is a a transfemme artist of colour that uses her work to talk about her experience, trying to navigate living in a conformist society that actively suppresses the “other”. Mads Floor Andersen explores recycling, risk, breakage, destruction, ruins and being ‘response-able’ to his surroundings.> Website : Click here
Carol Kennedy lives and works in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. She works predominantly in the mediums of printmaking and photography. She graduated with an Honours Degree in Contemporary Fine Art Printing from Limerick School of Art and Design,and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business in Cultural Event Management from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design,
Live Art Ireland with Livestock, presents Convergence which will be returning in 2023. We are delighted to inform you that our full confirmed lineup of artists is now available. The Live Art Ireland with Livestock Convergence festival aims to celebrate and promote diverse artistic talents from around the world. It serves as a platform for
Edy Fung is the first of our Artists to arrive for the Grass Residency which takes place mostly after our Convergence Festival in September October and November. Edy will be researching as follows: 1)Sonic Ethnography: I will conduct in-depth research into the specific natural environment surrounding the residency program. By documenting the unique soundscape of
Rachel Cohen, Edy Fung and Katherine Maynell will be present to show some of the results of their research here at Live Art Ireland, at 6.30 pm on Thursday the 3rd of August 2023. Please come for a relaxed evening looking at the work, talking about the work and having a bowl of yummy soup
Rachel is here as one of our final Soil Residents I gathered raw ingredients around the grounds of Millford House and, with a pestle and mortar, created a home-made, site-specific soil Ingredients: some dead animal fragments (dead moths, flies, snail shells,) dry leaves, beech nuts, fIowers and grasses, bark, moss, mushrooms, limestone,rainwater, lime and clay.
Rita Marcalo (she/her) is a Portuguese dancer/choreographer, currently based in Ireland. She is the Artistic Director of Instant Dissidence, a dance company based in Cloughjordan Ecovillage. As a socially and ecologically engaged company, Instant Dissidence foregrounds the role of dance as a social engine. The company’s work resists the idea of art as an object produced