Performance Images from Convergence 2023
On 30 August 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1PERFORMANCES
Venus Patel
Venus Patel is a 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 talk about her experience, trying to navigate living in a conformist society that actively suppresses the “other”. Although her work deals with a serious subject matter, she blends in absurdity, abjection, and humour to create multi-faceted performances and experiences.
Photo Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
Mads Floor Andersen
Mads Floor Andersen has developed a performance language of recycling, risk, breakage,
destruction, ruins and being ‘response-able’ to his surroundings. He particularly explores the
intimate relationship between body and environment and how they shape and affect each other.
website
https://madsfloorandersen.com/
Instagram: mads_floor_andersen_official
Facebook: Mads Floor Andersen
Photo Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
Erica Felicella
: Erica Felicella works as an artist, curator, producer, organizer, and program developed. Her artistic practice includes endurance and durational-based performance, site-specific installation, and new media, diving into the depths of society through the exploration of thoughts ideas, and a felt response to a collective whole.
Wilted Remains is an explorative offering to the rural lands of Ireland to begin a healing process from damage caused to the climate by humankind. Within all chaos there is a calm, a piece of contemplation to no longer hold what is and never was ours to take. www.ericafelicella.com
Insta – @felicella
Photo Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
Paul Regan
Where to start. Where to end
Paul Regan has transmutated from a painting practice to one involving performance. These site-specific interventions explore faith, devotion, religious symbolism and [mis]appropriate ritualisic reflections.
Web:
Instagram:
PaulRegan10
Photo Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil
Marina Barsy Janer x Isil Sol Vil (Puerto Rico x Catalonia) are visual and performance artists, curators, researchers and pedagogues. Directors of the MATERIC.ORG cultural centre and curators of MAR DE ISLAS performance encounter of the Caribbean and EMPREMTA international performance festival. They begin their joint work in 2015 following a philosophy of Subversive Love and eXtreme Care.
They explore alternative sensitivities that challenge the imposed historical chronologies while suppressing the male/ female dichotomy. Their point of union, as a vanishing point, is a constant pulsation where the plural presence of the body, the border destruction and the decolonisation of the mind-body is an act of rebellion and subversion.
Photo Deej Fabyc
Una Lee
Una Lee is an artist working with sounds, stories and sensations, in perpetual pursuit of alternative storytelling. She seeks innovation in the contemporary marriage between performance and poetry, exploring human condition, memory, time, and our relationship with art and ecology, often drawing from her autobiographical events and her present identity as non-native in her habitat.
Web site https://www.unalee.org/
Photo Mariya Hoyin
selina bonelli
Their work is underpinned by personal and political stories that are often not visible and inarticulatable through language. What types of spaces are needed to be able to connect with other voices, fragments and the imperceptible connections that conflict shatters?
Currently a researcher at the University of Ulster Bonelli also seeks to explore spaces outside of language, expanding on listening through touch to uncover the resonances trapped in ruins, utterances and hauntings. They co-deliver SITE and are an associate artist with Performance Space, UK.
web site https://www.selinabonelli.com/
Photo Mariya Hoyin
Slavek Kwi
is a sound artist interested in the phenomena of perception as the fundamental determinant of relations with reality.
An attempt to tune in to the surrounding environment. Every sound has the same potential to interact, all sounds are equal participants in the ecological organism. Listen.https://www.discogs.com/artist/237503-Slavek-Kwi
Video Mariya Hoyin
Keike Twisselmann
is a multilaterally creating artist. The scope of her work since 1989 includes painting, poetry of the mind, film, performance art, automatic writing, philosophy, politics and the laws of nature and humanity; noise and silence. However, her two main fields of output are in painting and performance art
There are more things between heaven and earth than we will ever understand…“
Mariya Hoyin+Volodymyr Topiy
Mariya Hoyin (Ukraine, 1982) Works with such media as: analog and digital photography, performance, video, collage, graphics. Graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Created the photographic project “Peryferium” during her stay at the AIR Wro residency 2016 During her stay at the Multimedia Ukrainian Plein Air in Ustka, she made the art book “Diary in the Time of War” (curator: Veronika Teplitzka, Ustka, 2022).
Volodymyr Topiy was born in 1979 in Sudowa Wyshnia. He graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts. In 2013 he was a scholarship holder of the “Gaude Polonia”. In 2023 he was at a residency in Krasnogruda, created a series of painting and graphic works. Took part in the master class by Vest&Page in Plotsk. He mainly deals with performance, painting, graphics and instalation. He lives and works in Lviv.
Photos Julieann O’Malley
Satadru Sovan Banduri
– I have a very tumultuous love-hate relationship with performance art that I don’t have with other mediums. the work is a state of consciousness, a way to move towards the future. Online Zoom Performance
He is a multi-disciplinary Indian NFT artist, specialising in canvas art, digital art and installations with light as well as perfomance art . He recipient of several awards including prestigious Fulbright Scholar From DANM,California USA, and residencies.
Photo Mariya Hoyin
Hi-Vis Witches
invite you to work on the construction of a collective Moon Circle to cement your connection to the moon as a source of power and to psychically renovate your spirit-level. Work gloves and hi-vis jackets are recommended.
Hi-Vis Witches are a practical & absurd collective of constructive spellcasters currently composed of Megan Scott & Heather Gray. Through their occult construction company they aim to bring a higher level of visibility to issues surrounding climate, dereliction and neoliberalism.
Robbie Maguire
Robbie Maguire is a visual artist based in Meath and a graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, where he studied Sculpture. His practice is situated in between art and music, incorporating interactive performance and installation. He has participated in the artist’s residency for the award winning Stendhal Music & Art’s festival, Derry, (2014). He has most recently exhibited at Catalyst Art’s, FIX17 performance festival, Belfast 2017 and performed at Livestock’s ‘Get Real’ exhibition 2017
Photo Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
WORKSHOPS
Day Magee
Bodyjam – A guided kinetic meditation narrated by Day Magee, treating the body and the mind as creative materials so as to generate a collective reality through movement and vocalisation.
Day Magee is an artist, performer, and writer based in Dublin. Their work, performing images and words live and to lens, explores the body’s phenomenology as a creative material, drawing from a self-mythography of queerness, illness, and religiosity.
Instagram: @daymagee
Photo Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
Karmel Daly
Karmel is a multi media artist/singer songwriter and member of IMRO. Presenting a Vocal session specifically for performance art
Photo Julieann O’Malley
Rita Marcalo
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.
Instant Dissidence believes in the ecological necessity of shifting art-making away from its current ego-centric paradigm to an eco-centric paradigm.
Photo Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
MUSIC
Mid Life Crisis
Presents traditional tunes and well known anthems to sing along to.
Photo Julieann O’Malley
Laine and Slatts
are joining together for a sibling dynamic duo for the Convergence Festival, featuring elements of ambient, tribal, disco, alternative and deep house.
Live Art Ireland wishes to thank all the Amazing Volunteers and members who helped get this event up and running and a Workspaces Grant from the Arts Council of Ireland and a Festivals and Events Grant from Tipperary Council
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