Artist in Residence 2026
Flávio Rodrigues
On 3 May 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Flávio Rodrigues is a multidisciplinary artist from Vila Nova de Gaia. His work emerges from processes of walking and drifting, through encounters and hands-on engagement with found materials and soundscapes, grounded in poetic and intuitive principles. Painel | de tão pouco, tanto (“Panel | from so little, so much”) is the title of the process-based
Artist in Residence 2026
Katerina Santroch
On 3 May 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1During my four-week residency, I focused on developing an olfactory artwork inspired by the Irish sport of hurling. The project emerged from my fascination with the physicality, intensity, and emotional charge of the game. I used the residency to further explore perfume as a performative and physical artistic medium. This immediacy became an important conceptual
Live Art performance . Mentored Residency
Aistearoir Project 2026
On 2 May 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1A Curator–Artist Mentorship Programme Aistearóir is the Irish word for journey. This curator–artist mentorship programme invites six curators to participate in a developmental residency at Live Art Ireland from 8th–12th April. During this period, the curators select the artist with whom they wish to work and mentor them throughout the year, using whatever means of
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Flesh As Witness
On 1 May 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Stories We’re Not Supposed To Hold News update: Artists selected for this residency are: Pak Lun Fung Pak Lun Fung is a queer interdisciplinary artist and atmospheric scientist whose work grows out of the tension between data and lived experience. Moving between scientific research and performance art, he explores how bodies carry climate, memory, and
Artist in residence . Research . Residencies
Live Art Ireland Library
On 1 May 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1The books in Live Art Ireland’s library belong to Deej Fabyc’s personal collection, gathered from childhood onwards. Some volumes were passed down from Deej’s parents and grandparents and, as a result, certain texts contain language that would be considered unacceptable by today’s standards — including racist and ableist terminology. These books are, however, 19th and
Artist in Residence 2026
Aepril Schaile
On 18 April 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Aepril Schaile took part in the In-Between residency from July 1st to July 10th. Aepril Schaile is an interdisciplinary artist working across bellydance, poetry and performance. Her work draws on mythology, landscape, and depth psychology. Her current project, Persephone Mysteria, is an inquiry into descent and return, communicated by a fluctuating first person and leaning
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Emma Starkey
On 14 April 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Emma Starkey is a Birmingham-based live artist developing alternatives to positivist modes of knowledge sharing in educational and artistic spaces. Her work challenges the colonial assumption that knowledge is something delivered from an authorised voice to a passive audience. Instead, she positions knowledge as relational — emerging between bodies, conditions, and the specific dynamics of
Artist in Residence 2026
István Kovács and Veronica Cordova de la Rosa
On 7 April 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1István Kovács and Veronica Cordova de la Rosa attended the In-Between Residency at Live Art Ireland in February 2026 from 13th-22nd. István Kovács (b. 1964, Budapest) is one of Central Europe’s leading performance artists, with over 24 years of experience. His work explores the physical body, life, and death, often creating striking live images using
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Mary Whitty
On 2 April 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1“In February I stayed at Live Art Ireland for their In-between Residency, where I spent time researching my ongoing and evolving body of work. During my time there, I developed a clearer grasp on my thought processes, and some questions and answers that lay within my practice re-emerged that I had previously been grappling with
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Arlene Caffrey
On 2 April 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Arlene Caffrey is a visual artist, researcher and educator based in Kilkenny. Working across performance, sculpture and social practice, her practice-based research explores the shifting cultural and sociopolitical landscape of contemporary Ireland and is informed by feminist and gender identity theory. Through performance and sculptural practice, she seeks to provoke critical reflection on constructs of
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Rebecca Strain
On 2 April 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1I was born on the day Bobby Sands died of hunger strike for civil rights in Northern Ireland. Iwas brought up both in rural Donegal and in a council estate in Dublin city. I attendedLimavady College of Art a year after the Omagh bomb. I went on to study in England atUniversity of Huddersfield where
Artist in Residence 2026
Sadhbh McCarthy McCool and Anna Cavenagh
On 31 March 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Sadhbh McCarthy McCool and Anna Cavenagh attended a joint residency at Live Art Ireland from 9th-22nd March 2026. Sadhbh McCarthy McCool is a Wexford based Irish artist. She is a graduate of SETU Wexford where sheobtained a First Class BA Honours in Art. A 2025 RDS long list nominee, McCool’s practice encompassesinstallation and performance. Anna
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Finbarr Dillon
On 11 March 2026 by Deej_Fabyc1Finbarr Dillon (b 1962) is a Sound Designer and Composer living in Co Clare, Ireland,working in the areas of Electroacoustic, Acousmatic and Sound Collages to create “FixedMedia” pieces of Sound Art.He comes to working with sound and music from an Electronic Engineering background’working for some 27 years in the Electronics industry both here in Ireland