A 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
The 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
Taking place in November 2025 – This mentored artistic residency brings together two Irish professional artists working across live art, writing, drawing, and sound to cultivate queer disabled visions through environmental storytelling and embodied practice. The project will explore how queer narratives intertwine with natural landscapes, inviting participants to dance with and as unnatural plants
Mentored 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
Idamay is a conceptual artist and engineer working with the analysis and reframing of human relationships and behaviours in contemporary capitalism. Idamay’s work is characterised by a critical attitude towards individualism and the possibilities for cooperation that can be sustainable within societies. The work is characterised by practices that combine the involvement of art science
Sarah has been writing mythical fiction and poetry for over 10 years, sometimes using speech and sound in performance, seeking context and language for a practise of being subject to material presence to voice unwitnessed narratives. This researches the shape of the female imagination and forms evolved from it. This process looks to a sustainable
Ella De Burca has been doing a special commision and residency to commemorate the roles of women during the civil war in Tipperary. The residency takes place in one week blocks between August and November 2022 presenting the final outcomes at our Alive & Kicking event on December 9th. Work in progress in the form
Adriana Tabalipa 1972 – Born in Curitiba and living in Rio de Janeiro, she currently lives and works between these two cities. Visual artist, performer, recorder, painter, draftsman and free thinker. She began her career in the late 1980s. She participated in numerous collective and individual exhibitions, both national and international. She has won several
My proposed project deals with violence against the queer identity from religious and societal structures. My main goal with the artwork is to envision a queer reimagining of the world in which queerness is not suppressed, through a queer manifesto, and an “end of the world” state of mind. I plan to use symbolism and
Minns is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on music technology, video, live and eco-art. Their practice has evolved from being bass guitarist in bands to using wearable technology to generate soundscapes via the body’s movement. A continuing martial arts practice feeds into this work via influencing the body’s movement vocabulary. They are founder member of
Bio: Soren James is a surrealist/experimental writer and visual artist living in Scotland, and currently funded by Creative Scotland to produce a first book (a novel in flash). An intensely private being, little is known of Soren’s character except that it recreates itself on a daily basis from the materials at its disposal, doing so
We are very happy to annouce that the artists chosen by the panel consisting of Lucy Day, Francis Fay, Kate Walsh and Deej Fabyc are as follows Simona Pavoni (1994), lives and works in Milan where she recently co-founded the art studio Spazio Marea. Trained as a painter and then as a sculptor, she approached
Although we can not invite you come and produce work here quite yet we are announcing a call out for virtual residencies in the near future. The first residency call out will be called Methuselah and will be asking artists to look at aging, deep time and the landscape. It will be engaging with members