Wioletta Ratajczak is an interdisciplinary artist and a member of Bbeyond.Based in Dublin, her artistic practice focuses on creating small scale performative devices and sculptures called ‘moment catchers’. They are inspired by paradoxical phenomena observed in everyday life.She also has designed sculptural costumes influenced by her childhood experiences,traumas and her family’s secrets. Those costumes are
Frances Mezzetti & Joyce Garvey in residence April 2024 A collaborative project of performance art, sound, creative writing and film. A weave of consciousness exploring growth and decay both human and natural,in reference to the interdependence of humans, planet earth and its biotic parts.Drawing on the philosophy and writings of ancient China, the project explores
Dr. Lisa Newman is an artist, writer, curator and co-director/ founder of 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, an artist-led presenting organization originally based in Portland, Oregon and now located in the West ofIreland. She received an MA in Performance and Cultural Location in Contemporary Europe from Dartington College of Art in Devon, UK in 2007 and a PhD
Katharine Paisley & Sinéad O’Donnell will be here in early November for a micro-residency SINÉAD O’DONNELL Sinéad O’Donnell (*1975,Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland). Her performance practice is contexual and she has made works across the globe, integrating her learning of new cultures with personal experience. Sinead uses her body to create works that reference the challenging experiences that
Artists Sue Smith, Kuldip Singh-Barmi (Cornwall UK) and Rita Marcalo (Cloughjordan, ROI) have been in residence with their project loosely titled – Dancing on the Edge. Instigated by ideas of precarity, precipice, futures and survival in communities (hyper-local and global), we are exploring new movements in environment-conscious dance practices. At this early stage the research