Artist in residence . Grass Residency . Member . Workshop Leader
Mark Leahy
On 16 October 2024 by Deej_Fabyc1grass bucket head crawl For the past week I have been trying out some moving, acting, sounding, and voicing. Working with props that connect to grass as part of the dairy industry, as a crop and as fodder and as having economic value within the production of milk. Also working with an awareness of plants
Grass Residency
Grass Residency
On 23 November 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1As the year draws to a close, its a good time to review all the artists supported via the grass residency call out. The grass residency asked artists to look at this green carpet that is so emblamatic in the Irish sense of self and also as how Ireland is seen internationally as a land
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Alexandra Holownia
On 28 October 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1I work as a performance artist, activist and interdisciplinary conceptual artist. As a performance artist, I deal with feminist topics on women’s rights. I protest against discrimination against women because of age and also against compulsory marriages. My performances are based on playing with the costumes and props I designed. I often use sound and
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Alkmini Gkousiari & Isobel O’Donavon
On 26 October 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1During The Grass Residency Alkmini experimented with her visual and vocal vocabulary. She spent a concentrated time reflecting and untangling thoughts and performance ideas on the romanticization of rural life in Greece and Ireland. Using tools such as grass, shepherd calls and bells. She experimented with the idea of bells as a universal sonic tool
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Emma Regada
On 19 October 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1My heart divided, indoors, outside doors.Indoors:The colors of the walls, the objects full of stories, the butterflies fluttering throughout the house,the creaking of the stairs, the light from the windows… A wealth of stimuli for the imagination. Somany stimuli feed my madness, my creativity, my hyperactive mind.This is how I begin to work on the
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Angus Whitty
On 5 October 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1I arrived at Milford House in early September 2023 for the residency entitled GRASS. Thanks to Deej and Live Art Ireland it was an opportunity to extend my usual practice of land art relating to waste to incorporate the element of GRASS, and to envisage new ways of considering what material culture means today.
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Rachel Macmanus
On 28 September 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Based in Co Clare, Ireland, Rachel works through drawing and performance. Her drawing takes the form of a community based collaborative practice, which allows an ongoing exploration into the cultural and social nuances of her surroundings. Her performance practice employs endurance based tasks and repetitive action as a way to experience how it feels to
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Edy Fung
On 2 August 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Edy Fung is the first of our Artists to arrive for the Grass Residency which takes place mostly after our Convergence Festival in September October and November. Edy will be researching as follows: 1)Sonic Ethnography: I will conduct in-depth research into the specific natural environment surrounding the residency program. By documenting the unique soundscape of