/ Preservation and Loss: Writing (after) Performance The artists selected to participate in the Marilyn Arsem and Mark Leahy Residency and workshop which took place in June 2024 were Nichole Panneton, Rob La Frenais, Ann Conwy, Marianne Marcote, Alisa Alho, Deej Fabyc, Georgia Lale, Silke Michaels & Carlos Tejo. The durational performances are a response
Marianne Marcote is a performance and theatre artist with a practice that expands over 30 years, which has focused on the embodied connection between body-mind-spirit, impulse and action – performance as a vehicle for the exploration and expression of Self. Marianne’s current artistic work is informed by Butoh dance, somatics, and her own practice as
Diana Bamimeke (they/them) is an independent curator, art writer and transdisciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Their practice—spanning text, exhibition-making, performance, pedagogy and other artistic interventions—is grounded in critical & political frameworks, including Black feminist & queer thought, ecocriticism, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, applied especially to contemporary Irish contexts. They are interested in the negotiations of
Application Deadline | 15th May 2025 Live Art Ireland with p(art)y Here and Now, presents CONVERGENCE A BORDERLESS ROMANCE 2025. from 8-10 of August This is an an art and music festival like no other bringing together the latest in live art practice with local and national musicians and a range of workshops, aiming to celebrate and
Announcing a collaborative event between @live_art_ireland and @partyhereandnow CON/p(art)y is a pre festival event between the two live art organisations. Convergence 2025- A Borderless Romance- 8 – 10th August And Here and Now Performance Art Festival 2025- 13 – 14 September When: Sunday 15th June 12-4pm. Where: The People Museum of Limerick (Coach house and gardens) CON/p(art)y The Lineup:
Wioletta Ratajczak is an interdisciplinary artist and a member of Bbeyond.Based in Dublin, her artistic practice focuses on creating small scale performative devices and sculptures called ‘moment catchers’. They are inspired by paradoxical phenomena observed in everyday life.She also has designed sculptural costumes influenced by her childhood experiences,traumas and her family’s secrets. Those costumes are
Balitronica Gomez is a performance artist, cyborg poet, and queer sex radical raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border. She studied Literature at San Diego State University and then moved to a 17th century Dominican convent in Paris. Currently living between San Francisco and Mexico City, she recently earned her MFA in Poetry and Queer Theory
Ελένη Κολλιοπούλου Eleni Kolliopoulou is a visual artist interested mainly in the intersection between Performativity and Philosophy. Initially Kolliopoulou trained as a painter, her research was concentrated in the abstract relation between elements as colour, lines, and shapes. From the very start her strongest interest was the movement occurring in the surface and stimulating the
Deej Fabyc works with performance, installation, photography and video. They are the Executive director of Live Art Ireland – Elain Bheo Centre for Art Research and Development at Milford House. Their work has for many years addressed the psychological dimensions of the personal and political experience of trauma. Current performance work is engaged with wicked