Rob La Frenais

In June, international curator, writer and artist Rob La Frenais will be coming by train and boat from France to spend some time with Live Art Ireland, supported by the Culture Moves programme of Creative Europe. He’ll be working with our team on a new network PLAN.E (Performance and Live Art Europe) taking part in and writing about the performance workshop and visiting nearby rowing clubs to research his rowing performance  ‘Close To The The Water”, as well as visiting artists around Ireland.

Rob La Frenais has returned to artistic practice after working for 38 years as a contemporary art curator and 45 years as a writer (he founded Performance Magazine in 1979, which continues to this day as Performance Magazine Live). He has roots in the video and performance practice of the 70’s. His first return to practice was the collaboration with performance artist Anne Bean, ‘Unpaintings’ which was a return to a performance he did with her 30 years ago He combines hisinterest in the sport of rowing and art with his performance ‘Close To The Water’ done at New Performance Turku, Finland, Art Meets Radical Openness, Linz, Austria, Piksel, Bergen, Norway, and finally in 2022 at Artbomb Doncaster. His most recent project is the ‘Let The Birds Have The Skies’with composer/pianist Lola Perrin, a mobile performance connecting climate with sustainable travel done on 6500 kilometres of railway lines in Europe and presented in 2023 at Gare Maritime in Brussels. He lives and works in SW France and no longer flys. His recent curatorial projects were No Such Thing as Gravity (FACT, UK, National Museum of Fine Art Taiwan, Exoplanet Lot (Maison Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, France) and Future of Transportation (Cochin Biennale, India, ArtBomb Doncaster, UK). He is working with Live Art Ireland to establish a new network PLAN.E – Performance and Live Art Europe. He is an associate Curator at LAI

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Participated in the following Live Art Ireland projects :

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