Event Call Out

Unfinished Business

On 3 July 2026 by

Jul 11 2026 6 Live Art performances/30 minutes each/2 musicians.

2.00 – 6.30 p.m.

This interdisciplinary performance event brings together performance art and local musicians in a
member engagement initiative that fosters cross-disciplinary exchange and community building. By
creating informal cultural gathering opportunities, Unfinished Business addresses the limited social
infrastructure for artists in rural contexts while introducing audiences to expanded definitions of artistic
practice. The event facilitates cross-pollination between disciplines that rarely intersect, potentially
inspiring new hybrid forms and collaborative projects that enhance Tipperary’s cultural offerings while
strengthening the resilient professional networks essential to sustaining vibrant local arts activity.

Fable Lane is an Irish band based in County Tipperary, known for their original music and energetic live shows. Blending singer-songwriter styles with rich musicality, they frequently perform at weddings, pubs, and community events across the region.

A proud Tipperary native, Jack Keeshan is a modern-day storyteller whose deeply personal songs channel lived experience into music that resonates with raw authenticity. Channelling loss and resilience into his craft, he opens conversations—particularly among young men—about emotion and personal growth. Having shared the stage with Damien Dempsey, Paddy Casey, Mundy, and Gemma Hayes, Keeshan is carving out a distinctive space in the Irish folk and contemporary music scene.

Artists selected for this event are:

lwrds duniam

lwrds duniam (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and educator, born in Callao, Perú in 1984 and living in Tkaronto. A 2019 OCAD University graduate (BFA Integrated Media), their ARTivism is grounded in Afrodiasporic and Indigenous Cosmologies, disability justice, and Decolonial Critical Theory. They have presented work nationally and internationally, attending residencies in Brazil, Czechia, Ireland, Mexico, South Africa, and the US. In 2024 they won the Transformative Territories award of the COAL Prize, Creative Europe Programme, and were invited to produce site-specific work at ArtMill, Czechia (2025). They are a founding member of the Trans Africa Collective and of Broken Forests, Fireweed.

Paul Regan

Paul Regan (b. Dublin, 1970) is an Irish artist whose practice explores image-making through live, site-specific performance interventions. Rooted in sustained inquiry into faith, ritual, cultural identity, and the politics of misappropriation, his work examines how belief systems are embodied, repeated, and performed. Originally working through painting, he completed an MA in Visual Arts at IADT Dublin before expanding into live performance exploring compulsive action, endurance, and ritualised behaviour. Regan has presented work at international platforms in 28 countries, including Manifesta, the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, and Documenta Athens, as well as PAB Open Bergen, Riga Sculpture Quadrennial, and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.

Photo: Marianne Marcote

Clare Carswell

Clare Carswell MA(RCA) (b. London, 1959) is a British/Irish artist based near Oxford, working in the intersections of performance, drawing, and writing. Using play, comedy, improvisation, song, and spoken word, her participatory works migrate between the planned and the spontaneous, exploring ageing, identity, and women’s archives. Recent works include TA-TA and WEEZ (2024) and WONKY_NEE and WONKY STRANGE (2023). With artist Peta Lloyd she performs as GIDDY STICKS, and curates the BIDDY project, which showcases women artists over fifty. In January 2025, COU COU, her curatorial project, presented BOLDER, a major exhibition of nine women artists at Oxford Brookes University.

Sandra Corrigan Breathnach

Sandra Corrigan Breathnach is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working primarily in performance art, with a practice encompassing sculpture, drawing, photography, video, and sound. Recent performances include Éirí at the Guggenheim Bilbao for MEM Festival (2025), Bealach at MOSI Braunschweig (2025), and Eorna at The Model, Sligo (2025). Her video work PRESSURE (2023) was screened at Luminaria Contemporary Art Festival, San Antonio, Texas (2025). Upcoming projects include Solas | Hikari at Live Art Ireland, Tipperary (October 2026). Longer-term works include Within at PEPA Madrid (2024) and Severance III at MAC Belfast (2021). She collaborates with artists including Alastair MacLennan.

| Bealach | Sandra Corrigan Breathnach | Weft Wind | MOSI | Germany | Photography Miran Ozpapazyan | 2025

Mariya Hoyin

Mariya Hoyin (b. 1982, Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across analogue and digital photography, performance, video, collage, and graphic arts. A graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, her practice explores memory, identity, displacement, and socio-political realities, combining documentary and experimental approaches. Notable projects include Diary in Times of War (Goethe-Institut Residency, Lublin, 2022). Her work has been exhibited in Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Germany, Japan, and Ireland. She has participated in international festivals including Convergence Performance Art Festival, Konteksty, and Becoming Tallaght Performance Art Festival. Currently based in Ireland, she continues to develop work bridging photography, performance, and contemporary visual culture.

At Becoming Tallaght 2025 photo © Fenia Kotsopoulou 

Emma Starkey

Emma Starkey is a live artist and doctoral researcher at the University of Gloucestershire whose work explores the politics of refusal, institutional violence, and the ethics of creative practice. Drawing on feminist, decolonial, and disability-informed methodologies, she combines autobiographical writing, live art, and critical theory to examine how creative environments shape, contain, or enable difference. Her practice develops fragmentary, embodied forms of live art that resist correction and the limiting expectations of Eurocentric academic and artistic norms. Her research contributes to emerging conversations on creative ethics, institutional critique, and the generative possibilities of irreversibility, particularly in relation to affective change and forms of expression that exceed language.

Image: Rabid Heart, 2024-25 -still from video by James L Perkins @magicperkins 

Live Art Ireland is delighted to invite our members to apply to perform at an afternoon of live art at the Source Arts Centre, Thurles, on Saturday 11 July, from 2pm to 5pm.Six artists will be selected to present work in the gallery space over the course of the afternoon. Each selected performer will be given a dedicated time slot of up to 30 minutes within the programme – this is the total time available to you, including any setup, the performance itself, and clearing the space afterwards. You are welcome to use the full 30 minutes or to present a shorter piece; please propose what suits your work best.To apply, please fill in the form on the link below
Due to current budget constraints, we are able to offer an artist fee of €80 for a live in-person performance, or €30 for a performance-to-camera piece (a pre-recorded work submitted as video). We appreciate that these fees are modest and are grateful for your understanding as we continue to build the resources to support our members’ work more fully.
Applications close on Thursday 12th June.
Selected artists will be notified shortly afterwards with full details of the schedule and logistics.
We’re really looking forward to spending the afternoon together and engaging with our members in this way.

photo: Balitronica of La Pocha Nostra performing at Live Art Ireland Event at the Source Gallery in 2024 Image © Fenia Kotsopoulou