Performances: Considering Time in Performance / Preservation and Loss: Writing (after) Performance
On 28 January 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1The artists selected to participate in the Marilyn Arsem & 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 to the mentoring process via the workshops of Marilyn Arsem and Mark Leahy. The workshop with Marilyn examined the significance of time in live performance. Through exercises, participants explored different ways that time can operate as an active element in their performances. Working with time, against time and through time. The artists investigated how actions, sites, objects and ourselves are impacted and altered in extended time.
In the workshop with Mark the artists looked at how performance is communicated after the fact, across gaps in time and space, to different audiences. What is lost, what do we hold on to, what do we transmit beyond the present moment? Our actions and thinking will occur in and with awareness of extinction, waste, and the other-than-human. The concerns above will be reflected in the performances presented.
Funded by a workspaces grant from the Arts Council
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Considering Time
Live Art Ireland
Saturday 15th June 2024
Performance Group A: between noon and 4.00pm (1200 to 1600hrs)
A1
Location: front steps of The House and field nearby. Noon to 4pm (1200 to 1600hrs)
MARIANNE MARCOTE is a performance and theatre artist, a Butoh dancer and a drama-therapist. Her practice explores the impact of internal and external landscapes in the performer by responding to impulse and site, moment to moment, in an attempt to search for existential meaning, deeper
embodiment of Self and closer connection. She embodies performance as a ritual act of transcendence and transformation, as a vehicle to travel beyond.
Picking up where I left off
Following the thread to return and depart again. A durational performance framed by the main door and steps of Milford House.
A2
Location: gravel courtyard between the barns. 1pm to 4pm (1300 to 1600hrs)
DEEJ FABYC has been making performances, installations and films for nearly forty years, having completed art school in the 1980s and an MFA in the early 1990s. Their work examines narratives of awkwardness, trauma and the everyday. They are the founder and director of Live Art Ireland.
Drilling and sowing
This performance is an everyday action or enactment of a repetitive task involving manual labour. The artist will lay a hedge and sow grass seeds over a time period of three hours. The action is the outcome of attending the workshops with Marilyn Arsem and Mark Leahy and being open to experimenting with another way of working.
A3
Location: Blue Room, on the Main Floor of The House. Noon to 4pm (1200 to
1600hrs)
ANN CONMY is a contemporary artist completing an MA in Fine Art at Limerick School of Art and Design. She examines feminisms and dismantles tropes of femininity and tensions surrounding themes of hegemonic societies. She is driven to subvert and disrupt the gaze by concepts of the “moral body”
and “moral life” of a woman in modern Ireland. Ritual in her performances explores uncanny, unsettled and unhomely artefacts of being.
Summoning
Her performance with Live Art Ireland will recount troubling histories of women in Ireland relating to denials of body autonomy.
A4
Location: in vault off conservatory on ground floor. Noon to 4pm (1200 to
1600hrs)
NICOLE PANNETON, an interdisciplinary artist from Québec Province, Canada, obtained a visual arts degree from Concordia University, Montréal in 1987. She has participated in individual and group exhibitions in Québec, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Bulgaria. In the
2000s, an approach to voice exploration and performance art transformed her practice into something living, malleable and moving. Her various practices come together in publications and videos that tell some of her experiences and give new life to her performances. Her work can be seen at
www.nicolepanneton.com
Murmures et soupirs
A durational action in The Vault, a mysterious space in Milford House. Confined in that place, she will wander and interact with the walls, carrying a sound object made of fabric containing pebbles. Through these actions, she hopes to feel and hear the secrets of The Vault. Attentive presence, faire
statue, slowness, repetition of gestures and actions are notions that make sense in her practice, the basis of which is the bubbling of the unconscious.
A5
Location: bathroom on second floor landing of The House. Noon to 4pm
(1200 to 1600hrs)
GEORGIA LALE is a Greek-born American visual artist and cancer fighter based in Brooklyn, New York. Lale explores the human body’s blueprint on the social and political realm of modern society and advocates for accessible healthcare and gender equality. Their solo show about gender-based violence,
Neighborhood Guilt, at the Consulate General of Greece in NY (2023), was taken down after the censorship of the work Flag by the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs. They are currently maintaining a studio at Governors Island, NY at the LMCC Artist Residency.
Bath-Room
Their performance at Live Art Ireland examines domestic rituals of cleanliness and self-care under the sociopolitical framework of patriarchy.
Performance Group B: between 5pm and 9pm (1700 to 2100hrs)
B1
Location: visible from inside the large barn. 5pm to 9pm (1700 to 2100hrs)
SILKE MICHELS is a visual/performance artist and mindfulness teacher living in Ireland. Her work is interdisciplinary, collaborative and site-specific to explore a sense of identity and belonging to a wider ecology. Her focus is on sustainable working and living to contribute to our planetary wellbeing.
Unravelling
A durational performance at Live Art Ireland, inspired by the workshop with Marilyn Arsem. This piece is about witnessing how the past and future create timelines within the present. What stays? What leaves? What is continuous?
B3
Location: in the second room up the stone steps at the near end of the barns.
6pm to 9pm (1800 to 2100hrs)
ALISA ALHO is a multidisciplinary artist based in Finland. Her works are a part of her day-to-day revolution. Performance is her primary tool, and the examination of normative behaviour her greatest source of inspiration.
Horisija
In Live Art Ireland, Alisa is performing a durational piece called Horisija which can be translated to: “the one who blathers.”
Location: by the trees due south of The House. 5pm to 9pm (1700 to
2100hrs)
ROB LA FRENAIS has returned to performance after curating for over 35 years. He made street and video performances in the 1970s with Action Space. He was the founder of Performance Magazine in 1979. His performance Close to the Water, in his single scull rowing boat, was presented in Turku and Doncaster. He collaborates with artist Anne Bean and composer Lola Perrin.
Considering MJ’s bicycle
This work involves dismantling and re-assembling the bicycle of the late Live Art Ireland co-founder MJ Newell. It’s an homage to and reworking of the 2016 performance by Bangalore artist Suresh Kumar G, in which he dismantled and re-assembled his father’s bicycle.
B5
Location: Blue Room, on the Main Floor of The House. 5pm to 9pm (1700 to
2100hrs)
CARLOS TEJO has been working in performance regularly since 2003. Let us recall: Expotrastiendas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; McGlade Gallery, Sydney, Australia; LAPsody Festival, Helsinki, Finland; TPA (Torino Performance Art Festival), Turin, Italy; Palácio da Instrução Estevão de Mendonça, Cuiabá,
Brazil; or Kunstpodium Gallery, Tilburg, Netherlands.
I love you; do I love you? I don’t love you
Through an impossible and pernicious relationship with Manet’s portrait of Berthe Morisot, we aim to question the ideological construction of what is supposed to be an ideal relationship. Doubt and negation in our performance are used as tools to dynamite the conventions surrounding the stereotype of romantic love in patriarchal society.
Thank you to workshop leaders:
Marilyn Arsem and Mark Leahy
The project has been in part supported by a Workspaces Grant from An Comhairle Ealaíon / The Arts Council and Creative Europe Culture Moves
