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 […]
Katherine is also one of the last of our Soil Residents Soil residency at Performance Art Ireland, July/August 2023Rolling in but not rolling over – a persistence of dignity and resistance against a backdrop ofrapacious economics and failing environments.I have spent this time contemplating all things soil, forming a pair of texts. One as anaccount […]
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 […]