Inaugural Live Art Meetup

On Saturday 20th June, we had our Inaugural Live Art Meetup at The Black Mills Centre in Roscrea.

Five performance art groups from around the country met in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary to share, meet, network and perform. Each group spoke for a few minutes followed by breakout sessions where three groups spoke about three different topics. These topics were: How do you keep it all going? Where does the money come from? Why do we do it? The groups summarised their 20 minute discussions and one speaker from each group shared what their group discussed. After a tea break a performance art jam took place in the courtyard in front of The Black Mills Centre. We received some attention from people walking past, especially from two young lads who said ‘this is actually class’, so that was a good review! At the end of the performance we celebrated Bbeyond for hosting monthly performances for the last 18 years in Belfast. Some of the artists came back to Live Art Ireland for a postmortem dinner.

The five groups that attended were Bbeyond (Belfast), Fite Fuaite (Galway), Xchange (Dublin), Live Art Ireland (Tipperary) and P(art)y Here and Now (Clare).

The artists that attended were: Bronagh Lawson. Paul Regan. Deej Fabyc. Rebecca Strain. Keike Twisselmann. Elaine Mcginn. Wioletta Ratajczak. Joanna Kocon. Shuying Han. Mariya Hoyin. Volodymyr Topiy. Slavek Kwi. Tuqa Al-Sarraj. Dagda Semler. Jamie Bigley. Alastair Maclennan. Rockey Meaney. Danny McCarthy. Noel Arrigan. Olivia Hassett. Ali Warner. Elizabeth Curran. Sarah Riseborough. Fionnuala McKenna. Gill Moses. Joanna Ryan-Purcell.

Photos by Joanna Ryan-Purcell.