Artist in residence . Workshop Leader
Julieann O’Malley
On 24 March 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Julieann O’Malley is an interdisciplinary artist. Her practice both for galleries and public space is fundamentally live durational performance installations, video work, sound and photography. O’Malley likes to test the limits of her body during durational performances. She condenses an idea and uses semiotics as a communication method and finds ways to explore, engage and
Artist in residence . Workshop Leader
Manuel Vason
On 24 March 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Manuel Vason is a visionary artist practicing photography as a philosophical prism through which to engage with others, reflect on the self and expand the imaginal.In particular, he considers the act of photographing as a durational performance of focusing attention on the appearance of things and event with the intention of keeping them alive. In
Artist in residence . Workshop Leader
Marilyn Arsem
On 24 March 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, ranging from solo performances, to large scale, site-specific works incorporating installation and performance. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Arsem has also presented work in 30 countries, at festivals, alternative spaces, galleries, museums, universities and conferences in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and
Artist in residence
Verena Stenke
On 22 March 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Verena Stenke is a German artist, filmmaker and curator. Since 2006, she has worked with Venetian-born artist and writer Andrea Pagnes as VestAndPage internationally in performance art, performance-based film, writing, publishing and temporary artistic community projects. Since 2010, she has been devoted to experimental performance-based filmmaking, producing feature-length films, silent films, numerous shorts, art videos
Artist in residence . Member
Ray VM
On 22 March 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Ray is a poet, performer, freelancer and caffeine enthusiast based in Birmingham. His work centres around discomfort and pushing people to dip into pools of thought they previously thought they may drown in. Ray is black, trans, queer and grateful. He is currently working on THE EXAM under Eastside projects and the Middleway mentorship scheme
Artist in residence
Georgia Lale
On 21 March 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Georgia Lale is a Greek-born American visual artist and cancer fighter based in Brooklyn. Through their multidisciplinary practice, Lale explores the human body’s blueprint on the social and political realm of modern society and advocates for accessible healthcare and gender equality. They received their MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2016) as a Basil
Artist in residence . Workshop participant
KAJOLI
On 1 March 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1KAJOLI (Farida Yesmin) was born and grew up in Bangladesh. She studied Fine Art at Dhaka University (1998) and has a Masters degree in that subject from Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India (2003). In her – ever evolving – artistic practice, KAJOLI experiments with different media, from photography and drawing to live performance, exploring issues of
Convergence artists 2025
Denys Blacker
On 1 March 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Denys Blacker is a visual artist whose practice spans performance art, drawing, sculpture and video. She recently completed a funded PhD titled Interconnection, Synchronicity and Consciousness in Improvised Performance Art Practices at Northumbria University in Newcastle. In 2002, she co-founded Gresol, a non-profit making cultural association and since then, she has organised over 20 international Performance art
Convergence 2025
Transport
On 19 February 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Live art Ireland is in a rural area in the West Midlands of Ireland close to Lough Derg Buses The bus Eirean 72 bus runs from either Limerick or Athlone to Borrisokane 3 times a day The local link bus runs from Nenagh to Portumna with our closest stop Carrigahorig (2km Walk) on this route
Workshop participant
Sarah Blissett
On 19 February 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Sarah Blissett is a UK-based artist, writer and dramaturg working at the intersections between visual art and performance. She is lecturer in Drama at the University of Plymouth where her research investigates human-nonhuman entanglements in performance with a focus on algae ecosystems and intertidal ecologies. Her interdisciplinary practice considers how site-responsive performance can reimagine human-nonhuman
Residencies . Workshop
Documentation of the Final Day La Pocha Nostra with Vest & Page – July 2024
On 13 February 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Mentored Residency at Live art Ireland In July 2024 we held a 10 day Mentored SUMMIT of performance exercises with a group of emerging, mid career and established performance artists from all over the globe. La Pocha Nostra (Guillermo Gomez Pena, Balitronica and Federico Tello)were keen to return after presenting a workshop for emeging artists
Member
Tina O’connell
On 2 February 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1As an artist originally from West Coast of Ireland, Tina O’Connell has been living and working in Brixton, London, since completing both an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, London and a postgraduate degree at Les Beaux Art de Marseilles, France. Drawing on her agricultural background in rural Ireland, her early sculptures were developed whilst undertaking the
Workshop participant
Lieselle Mcmahon
On 1 February 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Lieselle McMahon is a visual artist living in Dublin, where she studied Music & Media Technologies at Trinity college dublin and Art&Design at CEAD at NCAD. Her practice is mainly sculptural, encompassing 2D, 3D installation, live art and sound sculpture. Drawing on the assertion that the personal is political, conceptual themes around feminism and anti-capitalism