Live Art Ireland, Borrisokane (2026)

23/06/2026

On Saturday, 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).

Thank you to everyone who came.

Photos by

.fuaiteg Keike Twisselmann .properly

15/06/2026

Unfinished Business - Join us at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, on Saturday 11 July for six live art performances of 30 minutes each followed by two musicians. 2pm to 6.30pm

This interdisciplinary performance event brings together performance art and Tipperary musicians, fostering cross-disciplinary exchange in rural Tipperary. Fable Lane brings rich musicality and singer-songwriter sensibility, while Jack Keeshan channels loss and resilience through deeply personal songwriting.

The six artists are:

lwrds duniam (they/them, b. Callao, Perú, 1984) is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist whose ARTivism draws on Afrodiasporic and Indigenous Cosmologies and disability justice. Winner of the 2024 COAL Prize Transformative Territories award (Photo 1)

Paul Regan (b. Dublin, 1970) makes live, site-specific performance work exploring faith, ritual, and cultural identity, presented in 28 countries including Documenta Athens and the Venice Biennale (Photo 2 - credit: Marianne Marcote)

Clare Carswell MA(RCA) (b. London, 1959) works across performance, drawing, and writing, using play, comedy, and spoken word to explore ageing and identity. She performs as GIDDY STICKS and curates the BIDDY project for women artists over fifty (Photo 3)

Sandra Corrigan Breathnach is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working in performance, sculpture, and video, with recent presentations at the Guggenheim Bilbao and The Model, Sligo. Upcoming: Solas | Hikari at Live Art Ireland (October 2026) (Photo 4 - credit: Miran Ozpapazyan)

Mariya Hoyin (b. 1982, Ukraine) works across photography, performance, and video, exploring memory, displacement, and socio-political realities. Currently based in Ireland (Photo 5 - credit: Fenia Kotsopoulou)

Emma Starkey is a live artist and doctoral researcher at the University of Gloucestershire whose practice combines autobiographical writing and critical theory to examine institutional violence, creative ethics, and forms of expression that exceed language (Photo 6 - credit: still from video by James L Perkins)

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10/06/2026

We love it when our volunteers are also artists. It makes the everyday activities of life into an art form, seeing daily tasks as unique opportunities for growth, research and inspiration. Currently, we have three volunteers who are also artists and in today's post, we have decided to speak about their practice and what projects they are undertaking at Live Art Ireland during their time here.

Kostas Lales is an Art Handler and Crate Technician with 5+ years of experience in fine art fabrication and installation. Specialising in museum-grade packing , custom crate construction, and the handling of high-value artworks. With a strong background in woodworking and metalwork, with hands-on experience in galleries, artist studios, and institutional environments. Kostas is building a partition wall upstairs in the volunteers' cottage to divide the upstairs bedroom and bathroom so that volunteers staying downstairs don't have to walk through the upstairs bedroom to access the loo at night!

In their art, Erin has been exploring nostalgia as a tool of healing through grief and trauma, as well as Celtic folklore and mythology, herbalism and plant folklore, spirituality and magic in nature. They have been enjoying getting to know and work with the plants and trees surrounding Lisheenboy House, such as hanging up different types of kale seeds to dry in the barn.

Charly is a textiles and performance artist. As of this year they've been encompassing more natural materials/nature in their work. Taking inspiration from things like herbalism, plant folklore, symbols, neurodiversity and living slowly and regeneratively. Here, they've built a pea trellis out of goat willow shoots. After stripping the shoots, the bark has been used to tie the whole structure together. .vandereerden

Thank you to our volunteers for all their help and ideas and thank you to all the volunteers we have had to date.

09/06/2026

Reminder to sign up - link in bio!!!

The Inaugural All Ireland Live Art Meet Up is taking place on Saturday 20th June in The Black Mill Centre, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. Five performance art organisations from around the island of Ireland came together to initiate and organise this event. All artists are welcome.

The groups involved in this All Ireland Live Art Meet Up are: Live Art Ireland (Tipperary), Bbeyond (Belfast), Fite Fuaite (Galway), P(art)y here and now (Clare) and Xchange (Dublin).

The running order of the day is as follows:
12:00 - Talks and Discussions
14:00 - Open Group Performance
15.30 - Networking Black Mills Centre

If you would like to attend this event, please sign up on the form named 'Inaugural All Ireland Live - Art Meetup' - link in bio. Thank you to Damar House Gallery for arranging the venue for us

There are places available to stay in Live Art Ireland from 19th-21st June. This includes shared rooms in the house or camping - first come first serve. Details in the form - link in bio.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Photo by taken at Convergence festival at Live Art Ireland in August 2025 during a workshop and performance jam led by P(art)y here and now.

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09/06/2026

Deadline Extended to June 30th!!

Call-out for two Tipperary-based artists to take part in the three week Solas | Hikari residency at Live Art Ireland from 12th to 31st October 2026.

Solas | Hikari is an international residency and workshop. The project engages eight professional artists: four Japanese and four Irish. Two Irish-based artists are confirmed. Two places are reserved for Tipperary-based artists via open call.

Led by Sandra Corrigan Breathnach (Ireland) and Tadashi Watanabe (Japan), this residency explores inner light, interconnection and transformative darkness through contemporary performance art practice. Corrigan Breathnach guides exercises on the cyclical nature of life through energy, sound natural materials. Watanabe leads contemplative practices drawing on Buddhist traditions, working with darkness silence.

The residency includes a public workshop on 29 and 30 October (open call to follow), closing with a collective performance on 31 October (Samhain). This project is funded by the workspaces grant from the arts council and the arts act grant from Tipperary council

Tipperary-based or born artists apply via the website (link in bio) by 30th June 2026.

Photo 1: Sandra Corrigan Breathnach
Photo 2: Tadashi Watanabe

05/06/2026

Katerina Santroch recently stayed with us at Live Art Ireland for the In-Between Residency. It was a pleasure to have Katerina and we can still smell the perfumes! In Katerina's own words:

"During my four-week residency, I focused on developing an olfactory artwork inspired by the Irish sport of hurling. The project emerged from my fascination with the physicality, intensity, and emotional charge of the game.

I used the residency to further explore perfume as a performative and physical artistic medium. This immediacy became an important conceptual framework for the project, connecting the physical force of the sport with the physical force of olfactory experience.

Its main olfactory elements evoke freshly cut grass and burned hair. The latter references the friction, impact, and bodily exertion present in the game moments when players fall, slide, and collide on the pitch.

Many thanks to Live Art Ireland and Deej Fabyc for providing the time, space, and support necessary for this period of research and artistic development".

04/06/2026

Flávio Rodrigues, a recent resident at Live Art Ireland, is a multidisciplinary artist from Vila Nova de Gaia. His work emerges from processes of walking and drifting, through encounters and hands-on engagement with found materials and soundscapes, grounded in poetic and intuitive principles.

Painel | de tão pouco, tanto (“Panel | from so little, so much”) is the title of the process-based project he is currently developing. At its core is a colour created from a combination of paints found in the trash. This colour emerges as a gesture of care and protection. However, as with all his projects, Flávio remains open to the possibilities of chance, to life in motion, and naturally, to working within sensitive territories.

We were delighted to host Flávio at Live Art Ireland.

03/06/2026

Live Art Ireland is delighted to invite our members to apply to perform at an afternoon of live art at the Source Arts Centre, Thurles, on Saturday 11 July, from 2pm to 5pm.

Six artists will be selected to present work in the gallery space over the course of the afternoon. Each selected performer will be given a dedicated time slot of up to 30 minutes within the programme - this is the total time available to you, including any setup, the performance itself, and clearing the space afterwards. You are welcome to use the full 30 minutes or to present a shorter piece; please propose what suits your work best.

To apply: please apply via the form entitled 'Unfinished Business' - link in bio

Due to current budget constraints, we are able to offer an artist fee of €80 for a live in-person performance, or €30 for a performance-to-camera piece (a pre-recorded work submitted as video). We appreciate that these fees are modest and are grateful for your understanding as we continue to build the resources to support our members' work more fully.

Applications close on Thursday 12th June. Selected artists will be notified shortly afterwards with full details of the schedule and logistics.

We're really looking forward to spending the afternoon together and engaging with our members in this way.

These photos were taken at an event at the Source Art Centre Thurles in July 2024, La Pocha Nostra in collaboration with 10 local artists.

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Photo 8 features: performance by Lucy Lamb with Guillermo Gómez-Peña looking through the window

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02/06/2026

The Inaugural All Ireland Live Art Meet Up is taking place on Saturday 20th June in The Black Mill Centre, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. Five performance art organisations from around the island of Ireland came together to initiate and organise this event. All artists are welcome.

The groups involved in this All Ireland Live Art Meet Up are: Live Art Ireland (Tipperary), Bbeyond (Belfast), Fite Fuaite (Galway), P(art)y here and now (Clare) and Xchange (Dublin).

The running order of the day is as follows:
12:00 - Talks and Discussions
14:00 - Open Group Performance
15.30 - Networking Black Mills Centre

If you would like to attend this event, please sign up on the form named 'Inaugural All Ireland Live - Art Meetup' - link in bio.

There are places available to stay in Live Art Ireland from 19th-21st June. Please DM us if you would like to book your place to stay. This includes shared rooms in the house or camping - first come first serve.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Poster design by .lyness

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01/06/2026

The Pas Si Fragile, a biennial event, showcases young artists involved in performance art, recently graduated from art schools in Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. This event aims to bring together around 10 young artists. This is a two day event. This year it took place on April 25th and 26th. The first day was made up of ten performances by these ten young artists. The second day involved ten minute mentoring sessions between ten chosen mentors and these ten young artists. These sessions were played out like speed dating games, so we will say speed mentoring sessions! Deej Fabyc, CEO of Live Art Ireland, was one of the chosen mentors and they also did a presentation on Live Art Ireland. Pas Si Fragile took place at Thor Studios. Thor places particular emphasis on performance as a space for interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation, where choreographic practices meet other practices.

The artists in these photos are: Garance Buxtorf and Yuna Choi. The artist featured in the photo of Deej's presentation is Marie-Chantal Hamrock.

Thank you to for the photos and we hope your festival went well. Photos also by

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