KAJOLI (Farida Yesmin) was born and grew up in Bangladesh. She studied Fine Art at Dhaka University (1998) and has a Masters degree in that subject from Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India (2003). In her – ever evolving – artistic practice, KAJOLI experiments with different media, from photography and drawing to live performance, exploring issues of
Sarah Blissett is a UK-based artist, writer and dramaturg working at the intersections between visual art and performance. She is lecturer in Drama at the University of Plymouth where her research investigates human-nonhuman entanglements in performance with a focus on algae ecosystems and intertidal ecologies. Her interdisciplinary practice considers how site-responsive performance can reimagine human-nonhuman
Lieselle McMahon is a visual artist living in Dublin, where she studied Music & Media Technologies at Trinity college dublin and Art&Design at CEAD at NCAD. Her practice is mainly sculptural, encompassing 2D, 3D installation, live art and sound sculpture. Drawing on the assertion that the personal is political, conceptual themes around feminism and anti-capitalism
Amanda Gatti (1996, Brazil) is an artist and researcher working primarily with performance, video, photography, and installation, seeking to understand the body as a mediator within these disciplines. Her work explores how we occupy — and are occupied by — the spaces around us. She holds a Master’s degree in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture
Keike Twisselmann artist file Born in Berlin 1967. She was unconditionally admitted to study fine art at the University of Ulster Belfast in 1989, completing her studies 1992 with the Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) and 1996 with the Master of Fine Art. In-between, she studied philosophy, English literature, politics and law out of interest.
Hilary Gilligan is a professional artist, born, raised, living, working and creating in County Sligo. Educated in Ireland, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada and in 1997 awarded a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast. Her art practice since 1989 is diverse, explorative and innovative. Methods include photography, film, video,
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
SILKE MICHELS is a visual/performance artist and mindfulness teacher living in Ireland. Her work is interdisciplinary, collaborative and site-specific to explore a sense of identity and belonging to a wider ecology. Her focus is on sustainable working and living to contribute to our planetary wellbeing.UnravellingA durational performance at Live Art Ireland, inspired by the workshop
Arlene Caffrey is a visual artist, dance artist and adult educator based in Kilkenny. Working across the media of performance, sculpture and the written word, her practice is informed by feminine subjectivity and feminist epistemology. Since graduating from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2009 with a degree in Visual Communications, Arlene has been working
Mná Rógaire is an emerging collective of recent graduates. The Northwest-based group fuses the interdisciplinary practices of Samantha O’Reilly, Laura Grisard, and Rebecca Christina Devins. A responsive collaboration between the estate at Live Art Ireland and Mná Rógaire, unfolds as performance to camera costumed in John McNamara designs. Nourished by this home, wandering their corridors,
Coming to the SOIL Residency, I held the seed of an idea looking at soils and their microbiallife in a context of communication. This was originally to be explored in a kinetic, time-lapseeffect of creating environment through which growth and mould development could occur.Through-out my time here, however, the idea for this new installation has
Steef Kersbergen [They|Them] is a performance artist working on the border between live and digital works, going back and forth between creating performance-based-videos and video-based-performances. They are currently finishing up the Master of Performance Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. There they are researching performative image making and the (de-/re-)construction of the