PORTACH PROMENADE

PP is a collaborative and participatory performance walk from Redwood Castle to the Redwood bog and back taking place on the 5th of October 2024 from 11 am to 6pm . Performance artist and video maker  Deej Fabyc is the lead artist on this project working in collaboration with Theresia Guschlbauer, Olive O’Meara, James Heenan, Theresa De Burca, Aisling Muller & Clare Hurley as co-developers of this engaged spectacle. The walk is in part in memory of Mark Newell –  Deej’s partner in love and art who suddenly passed away in May 2023. He originally devised this project with Deej but did not live to see it florish. We all may have lost someone important to us and this walk through a landscape imbued with past ghosts and future memories for many local people will allow space for contemplation away from the distractions of our normal digitised present. The walk will engage with recent and deep time and the climate emergency that is coming.

We are holding planning and making meetings at the Lorrha – Sceal community centre and shop on the 22nd of August 2024 at 6pm, the 5th of September 2024 at 6pm, the 19th of September 2024 at 6pm and the 3rd of October 2024 at 6pm

Workshop and Residency

There will also be a four day making workshop with artists Deej Fabyc, Aisling Muller and Clare Hurley on the 12th to 15th of September 2024 this workshop will bring local people and artists from further afield to work together to create costumes from natural materiels, learn photography for performance  and performance techniques to develop the shape and feel of this walk. This will take place at Live Art Ireland at Milford House, Borrisokane. Following this there will be a residency for artists from further afield based at Milford house to further develop the project in collaboration with local people. The residency will be from the 11th of September until the  7th of October 2024.

The walk will be documented by film artists  Jouana Roubles, Michael Higgins and sound artist Oli Ryan, as such all participants will need to sign a film and photography waiver in order to take part. The project will become a film which will be shown in local community and further afield after the walk has taken place.

This project is funded by a  Creative Ireland  and an Arts Act grant from Tipperary Council and an Agility Award from the Arts Council. Live Art Ireland is funded by a workspaces grant from the Arts  Council.

IMAGE Deej Fabyc and Manuel Vason

For Residency and Workshop