Scottish artist Alastair MacLennan attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Best known for his distinctive form of performance art which he terms ‘actuations, his practice also embraces drawing, installation and the use of found objects, materials and artefacts. He has performed and exhibited internationally since the early 1970s. He represented Ireland at
Julieann O’Malley is an interdisciplinary artist. Her practice both for galleries and public space is fundamentally live durational performance installations, video work, sound and photography. O’Malley likes to test the limits of her body during durational performances. She condenses an idea and uses semiotics as a communication method and finds ways to explore, engage and
Manuel Vason is a visionary artist practicing photography as a philosophical prism through which to engage with others, reflect on the self and expand the imaginal.In particular, he considers the act of photographing as a durational performance of focusing attention on the appearance of things and event with the intention of keeping them alive. In
Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, ranging from solo performances, to large scale, site-specific works incorporating installation and performance. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Arsem has also presented work in 30 countries, at festivals, alternative spaces, galleries, museums, universities and conferences in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania and
Balitronica Gomez is a performance artist, cyborg poet, and queer sex radical raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border. She studied Literature at San Diego State University and then moved to a 17th century Dominican convent in Paris. Currently living between San Francisco and Mexico City, she recently earned her MFA in Poetry and Queer Theory
Deej Fabyc works with performance, installation, photography and video. They are the Executive director of Live Art Ireland – Elain Bheo Centre for Art Research and Development at Milford House. Their work has for many years addressed the psychological dimensions of the personal and political experience of trauma. Current performance work is engaged with wicked
Sandra Corrigan Breathnach is an Interdisciplinary artist working mainly in Performance Art, her practice includes elements of Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, Video and Sound. Recent performances include, ‘Severance III’ MAC, Belfast, 2021, ‘Primal Release’ Transitstation Online, 2021, ‘Severance II’ | PEPA Online N.Y. & Madrid 2021, ‘Human’ | Seeing You – Seeing Me – Revision Festival
grass 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
Federico Tello (Mexico City) Manager of Mexican Programs & Operations, Pocha Drag Queen Extraordinaire Federico, Gypsy & performer, was born in Mexico City in the ‘87, since then he has been crossing all kinds of borders and fronteras. Federico is a queer, trans spirited, nature lover, who has been learning about ritual and alchemy from both
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his three homes have been San Francisco, Mexico City and the “road”. His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates
All the way from Mexico and California, join interdisciplinary performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra for a special performance gathering featuring core members: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Balitronica and Federico Tello. For this work the troupe will worked with 10 local guest artists, dancers, poets and storytellers – Paul Regan, Deej Fabyc, Annie Hogg, Layla Tobin, Lucy Lambe, Julie
Aishling Muller is a contemporary fine art photographer and performance artist from the midlands of Ireland. She has always been fascinated by the human condition, spending her early years documenting cultures as a photographic observer. Mid 2012 Aishling embarked on an intensive inner journey. This lead to a dramatic shift in the works she created,
Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist based in Folkestone, UK. She completed a degree in Visual Arts and a Master degree in Institutional Psychology at Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Her work is a hybrid between performance, installation and other forms of expression, such as writing, photography, video and painting. In general, she