We believe that art is an evocation of a fragment of life. The reality of life is indeed complex and can be faithfully conveyed by the coexistence of various means of expression. Over the past year, we have shared our individual researches, which have seemed complementary to each other and have allowed us to grow
“In the storied borders of the Milford House estate in Tipperary, its socio-geographically contested status reflecting Ireland’s itself, so too are paralleled dynamics of the contested social psychology of the queer sick body. In ‘Eat the Good of the Land’, I situate my body – a vector of its own queerness and chronic illness, and
O. Pen Be is a UK live artist and movement therapist. Her work as a somatic practitioner and artist is situated on edges. Her embodied, interactive performances challenge the hierarchical certainty of truth as objectified rather than as lived experience, and explores somatic and relational effects of injustices: social and environmental. O.Pen Be’s serious playfulness
During our residency at Milford House, we developed our ongoing project Growing Sculptures From The Land, where we investigate the landscape through performative sculpture making. Using mud, cloth, stone and sound. We started from the writings of Schelling about the cosmological intricacies of the system of nature, art and culture, just as much as BBC
Contested Site: a live art performanceby Kate Barry Contested Site was situated in one of the old barns (circa 1700), on the lands of Milford House in Tipperary, Ireland. The first time I entered the barn, I knew I would perform there. I was struck by a series of etchings and some graffiti dug into
Climbing the stairs I had the impression of entering a large mouth that has lost its milk teeth.
Live Art Ireland is providing me the chance to become intimate with the complexity of working through experimental performative sculpture processes — building pit kilns into the earth, conjuring glaze recipes out of raw materials, foraging found clay, and fabricating ceramic pieces as a response to previous ceramics making with Shurooq School for the Blind.
Zoe graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a degree in Fine Art in 2019. Their work is interdisciplinary in nature, integrating photography, textiles and drawing to apply accessible methods of healing and learning through collaborative storytelling. Their work is concerned with accessibility in art and wider society. These interests were showcased in their debut