
Compression & Oppression Open Call
On 24 April 2022 by Deej_Fabyc1Compression & Oppression
Live Art Ireland Open Call 2022 deadline 11.5.2022
Live Art Ireland invites you to make a proposal for 3-6 week residency at Milford House. We invite artists working in the areas of live art, performance art, hybrid dance, performative video and film to apply for a residency at Milford House North Tipperary during 2022. Artists are asked to respond to the theme of violence and oppression – That violence is a force of oppression particularly against women, minorities, disabled and LGBT+ people. At the same time we would be interested in receiving proposals that spoke of a response to violence in any form including war. That violence maintains oppression and curbs people from acting freely due to perceived or real threats. That the psychological harm of violence endures in forms such as complex ptsd that may be diagnosed as disorders such as borderline personality disorder, requiring civil society and institutions that need to intervene to make such oppression unconscionable. We are particularly interested in artists who engage with possibilities (or impossibilities) of emancipatory, relational, and reparative art processes.
There is a bursary of 400 euro available for this residency
Please note: this is a research residency, so there is no need for a finished performance or film outcome. Although if a project does develop to a point of audience engagement, we are happy to present it on our website and to a live audience, we encourage proposals that actively engage with the local community. You will be asked to provide the website with photo documentation and a short description of your progress during your residency stay.
Those who are selected for the residency will be invited to submit a live art film document for our live art video festival – Alive & Kicking in November
Residency Includes: Each bed/Studio has an ensuite shower room. The kitchen is shared. Parts of the barns, the fields and woodlands and the fine rooms of the house are all available as places to develop live art projects and art films. We have a fast wifi network
We currently have funds for a small bursary artist payment. If selected we can write you a letter of acceptance which can be used to apply for further funding.
Residents are encouraged to cook a meal together in the evenings. We do not cook meat here both for the environment and because getting rid of meat waste is an issue in the countryside. We do a weekly online vegetarian grocery shop. You will be asked to contribute towards this; you will be allocated a food cupboard and space in the fridge.
Transport: There are buses to Nenagh and trains to Cloughjordan – we can pick you up from there. We have bicycles available to ride to the nearest shop in Terryglass by Lough Derg. If you have a car you are welcome to drive it here.
We encourage slow travel; this means working out the most carbon efficient way of travelling here. This could mean by car if it is electric or hybrid, but generally by bus or train. If you are an artist who normally lives in a location where it would be impractical to travel overland such as North and South America, Autralasia, east Asia etc we encourage you to only apply if you are already in Ireland the UK, North Africa or mainland Europe
Residency Covid Safe Guidance: Artists will be encouraged to take lateral flow tests and to show proof of vaccination. Masks will be worn in the common parts of the house until all artists have been there for 3 days and taken a negative lateral flow test
Accessibility: There are no ground floor bedrooms at present although there is a shower and toilet on the ground floor. The Studio bedrooms are on the second and third floor so there are stairs to them. We welcome artists who identify under the social model of disability and welcome feedback on accommodations. If you need to submit an application in an alternative format please get in touch well before the deadline to arrange.
The curatorial panel is Deej Fabyc, Helena Walsh & MJ Newell


Thank you to Tipperary Arts Office a Workspace grant from the Arts Council of Ireland and a personal donation from Deej Fabyc




Our Programme for 2022
On 11 February 2022 by Deej_Fabyc1Proposed programme for 2022
In late February we will have our annual open call for residencies for 2022
In April we welcome the Pragmata artist duo to Milford house for three weeks to create performative environmental sculpture. ‘Our residency at Milford House will develop work that was born in a residency with the Bastioni Association in Florence. Using mud, plaster, metals, clay, we will build our sculptural practice of ‘growing’ sculptures from the earth. This project is a series of investigations using methods of digging and moulding in the ground and rock. ‘
In May we welcome Daniele Minns and Carol Kennedy to the house to create a collaborative residency for Bealtaine.
In July we are developing a three day festival in collaboration with Bbeyond Irish Performance art organisation
In Late July we welcome Ella DeBurca to Milford house for a residency
In August – September we Have a residency with Simona Pavoni & Alessandra Viva developing a operatic live performance work with other artists from Milan and Borrisokane
In November we present Alive & Kicking a live performance art and video festival here at Milford House

Artists Selected for the upcoming Residencies
On 13 October 2021 by Deej_Fabyc1We 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 video and performance, focusing her interest on the vital functions of a body with its biological, architectural and socially derived manifestations. She has taken part in several exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
I think about architecture as a body, an environment in which everything can be host and everything can live. Architecture makes me reflect on the principle that things exist with their outlines. These outlines aren’t inteded neither as limits nor as definitions. They are filters that bring into communication the outside with the inside, letting elements to pass through.
I think about body as an architecture. The performance upsets the dimensional scales by stretching the space. This space starts from the theater’s stage, in which the performace takes its conventional place, to the world, making the art practice free of borders.

Kate Barry is a performance artist whose work investigates queerness, subjectivity, and embodied practice through painting, drawing and video. Barry has performed + exhibited extensively throughout Canada and internationally. She has contributed over 20-years to working in artist-run spaces in Canada committed to the exhibition of artwork outside the mainstream.
From 2011-2014, Kate Barry was a member of the board of directors for FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto). She was the project manager for More Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women and she worked as the archival + research associate for the book, Wordless: The Performance Art of Rebecca Belmore, 2019. She was as the project lead for the MPCAS, an urban screen launched by grunt gallery in 2019. Currently, she is a sessional faculty at Emily Carr University of Art & Design (ECU) and serves on the board of directors of the Mutual Aid and Reciprocity Fund (MARFEC) at ECU.
My work explores the decolonization of the human body through the lens of queerness by investigating performance art as a relational practice. My current research involves queer survival during a global pandemic that combines the conjuring of ancient rituals for protection with contemporary queer performance art. While at Live Art Ireland, I’m proposing a 3-week residency in Nov 2021 where I will create a series of performance-paintings. To do this, I will collaborate with the land and make eco-friendly paintbrushes using sticks, rocks, plants, foliage, and other unexpected items. I will paint on raw, un-stretched canvas on the ground and use my paintbrushes as extensions of my body reenacting prehistoric mark-making methodologies. These performance-paintings will consider the queer body as a contested, political site that links the Milford House and its environs with its demesne history.

Day Magee is a performance and visual artist based in Dublin. Since 2011, they have performed as part of live art organisations such as Livestock and the Dublin Live Art Festival, before pursuing a BA in Sculpture & Combined Media in Limerick School of Art & Design in 2017, during their time there staging group live art events managing the Evil Collective, and by their third year exhibiting work as part of Galway’s Tulca Festival 2019, in group shows in Dublin and Manhattan, as well as being put forward for the Future Generation Art Prize 2020 by its Irish partner platform Pallas Projects Studios. They are currently commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland for their 2021 Curated Space programme, and a member of MART Studios.
“My work concerns the subjectivity of a queer sick body: queerness navigated via fundamentalist Christianity; sickness as manifest in chronic pain; the body being the site of self-conception as well as the instrument of self-reproduction. Experience acts as the dynamo, and the ensuing emotional interiority is the well from which I draw. My life is a question, and my work is its answer. Taking the form of performance-centred/performance-initiated multimedia, I perform images drawn from self-mythology. The work hinges on the mutual suspension of disbelief between creator and spectator, acting as stylised rituals, their narration reliable or otherwise, charged by the witness of the audience. Given that my work is confessional, and confrontational, I am asking the audience to believe me.”

Paola Bernardelli
Niamh Seana Meehan is a visual artist based in Northern Ireland. Working in-between visual art, performance, audio, sculpture, and written matter based on the slippages involved within the translation of thought to text. Themes include emptiness, silence, ambiguity, and doubt.
Niamh Seana has performed and exhibited both nationally and internationally, recent projects include PS2 Short Residencies (2021), Digital Arts Studio Residency (2021), UK New Artists Common Interest Residency (2021), Catalyst Arts Propagate Workshop (2020), CCA~Derry~Londonderry DeMo Reciprocal Residency (2020) and HOUR Bergen International Performance Festival (2020).
My practice spans performative readings, audio, text-based installations, writing projects and conversations based on the slippages involved within the translation of thought to text. I investigate the unknowability of language, its messiness, and how language has the potential to become visual, performative and moveable. Creating sub-language, metanarrative, para text or language that spills onto the other page.
I use live strategies to embody the act of decision making. Performative methods reveal moments for the in-between to open-up, there is a sense of getting lost, misunderstanding, stopping, and starting, and doubtfulness. The textual element within my practice investigates how language can be translated into movement, slippery rhythms, gestural fragments, jumpy breathes. Using conversation as props, the textual can take various forms in sculpture, audio or remaining as text. The props always provoke the performative, by means of displacement, presenting traces for the performance event. These often take shape as rehearsals.

HOUSE international + local Open Call
On 12 September 2021 by Deej_Fabyc1Please submit your application here by 30th September
Live Art Ireland invites you to make a proposal for 3-6 week residency at Milford House. Milford and its environs are entangled in the Demesne history as a contested site. (Please see house history here) We welcome live art and video proposals engaging the concept of anti-colonial, both in Ireland and abroad. We are particularly interested in artists who engage with possibilities (or impossibilities) of emancipatory, relational, and reparative art processes.
Please note: this is a research residency, so there is no need for a finished performance or film outcome. Although if a project does develop to a point of audience engagement, we are happy to present it on our website and to a live audience, if possible. You will be asked to provide the website with photo documentation and short description of your progress during your residency stay.
Those who are selected for the residency will be invited to submit a live art film document for our online live art video festival in December.
Residency 1, beginning 20th October includes a trip to the exhibit homeland 2021— a project hosted by Damar House Gallery on the 23rd (Roscrea).
Residency 2, beginning 10th November includes a visit Switch on the 14th (Nenagh),
Residency Includes: Each bed/Studio has an ensuite shower room. The kitchen is shared. Parts of the barns, the fields and woodlands and the fine rooms of the house are all available as places to develop live art projects and art films.
We do not currently have funds for artist payment as this is a pilot residency scheme. If selected we can write you a letter of acceptance which can be used to apply for funding.
Residents are encouraged to cook a meal together in the evenings. We do not cook meat here both for the environment and because getting rid of meat waste is an issue in the countryside. We do a weekly online vegetarian grocery shop you will be asked to contribute towards this please see example shop below (for two artists in residence). Snacks etc you can bring or buy yourself locally you will be allocated a food cupboard and space in the fridge.
Transport: There are buses to Nenagh and trains to Cloughjordan – we can pick you up from there. We have bicycles available to ride to the nearest shop in Terryglass by Lough Derg. If you have a car you are welcome to drive it here.
Residency Covid Safe Guidance: Artists will be encouraged to take lateral flow tests and to show proof of vaccination. Masks will be worn in the common parts of the house until all artists have been there for 5 days and taken a negative lateral flow test
Accessibility: There are no ground floor bedrooms at present although there is a shower and toilet on the ground floor. The Studio bedrooms are on the second and third floor so there are steps to them. We welcome artists who identify under the social model of disability and welcome feedback on accommodations.
The curatorial panel is Deej Fabyc, Lucy Day, Aine O’Hara, Kate Walsh & Francis Fay
Please submit your application here by 30th September
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