Live Art Ireland, Borrisokane (2026)

03/09/2026

A reminder about our upcoming two-day workshop at the end of October:

Live Art Ireland invites applications to apply for a free two-day workshop culminating in a collective performance at Milford House, North Tipperary. The workshop takes place on 29 and 30 October 2026, with the collective performance on 31 October (Samhain).

The workshop forms part of an international residency running at Live Art Ireland from 12 to 31 October 2026, bringing together eight professional artists: four from Japan and four from Ireland.

Led by Sandra Corrigan Breathnach (Ireland) and Tadashi Watanabe (Japan), the workshop explores themes of inner light, interconnection, and transformative darkness through contemporary performance art practice. Corrigan Breathnach will guide workshop participants through exercises exploring the cyclical nature of life using energy, sound, and natural materials. Watanabe will lead contemplative practices drawing on Buddhist traditions, exploring darkness and silence in interior and exterior environments.

Workshop participants will develop performances alongside the residency artists, with Corrigan Breathnach and Watanabe acting as mentors, before presenting the collective performance on 31 October.

Participation is free, but places are limited. Selection will be made by Deej Fabyc and Sandra Corrigan Breathnach.

Deadline for applications: 1 September 2026. Apply via link in Bio.

Photo 1: Tadashi Watanabe
Photo 2: 'Eorna' - Sandra Corrigan Breathnach - The Model - Sligo - Photography Cían Flynn - 2025

01/09/2026

Eleni Kolliopoulou and Stratos Papadoudis partook in the In-Between Residency for 10 days from 14th-23rd April.

This is a piece they wrote about their residency:

"During our 10 days’ stay at Lisheenboy house, our intention was to work on the development of our new performance piece entitled ‘Quiet hours’.
In fact, the first 5 days Stratos and I have been rehearsing and working on the piece mainly because it required some new skills from our side. We had to sing together a song by Eric Mingus, which, in a way, puts together our feelings about the current global situation with ongoing wars, discrimination and exploitation.
This was the piece:

‘No more of this’
When it all feels like it might all fall to pieces
How long will this keep going on
So many of us gone
Lives shattered and broken
Like promises forgotten and scattered
How long will this all keep going on
No more of this No more of this

Quiet hours was a spoken word score-structured performance that also entailed spoken word inspired by Beckett’s ‘Without.’ It was such a great push for us to be able to dedicate 4 hours a day to developing the piece. Everything went smoothly and we were happy to show a first work- in-progress of the performance in a Sunday afternoon event organized by

Our stay at the house was very immersive. We stayed over during a period of little movement in terms of hosts and this allowed us to merge with the surroundings and get deeply attuned to the natural pace of life during the residency. Nature was so intense and embracing that it absorbed us within its own rhythm in a soothing and nourishing way.

We would love to come back, thank you so much for having us "

We hope to see Eleni and Stratos here at Live Art Ireland again.

26/08/2026

At Live Art Ireland we are currently in that space between two themed residencies. Flesh As Witness residency finished on Monday 17th August and Aistearoir residency begins on 30th August. During this in-between time a lot of work needs to be done: cleaning the rooms, washing the sheets, hoovering the house and getting everything ready for the next group of artists.

Lison Degrave and Zoé Marzeau have been doing an enormous amount of that work, and we would like to take this moment to thank them. Lison and Zoé have been with us for the past two months as part of their Erasmus internship, and are currently pursuing a Master in Fine Arts at the European School of Visual Arts in France.

During their internship they archived and categorised files in Deej's studio, Lison restored the plaster moulding on the staircase wall, casting new sections from a mould she made of an original piece, they helped artists prepare for their performances at Unfinished Business on 11th July at the Source Arts Centre in Thurles, and for the work-in-progress performance Flesh As Witness at Live Art Ireland on 15th August. Zoé took part in the Flesh As Witness residency herself, creating a performance film that was presented on the first-floor landing.

Over the last ten days, Lison and Zoé have washed all the sheets, cleaned and hoovered every bedroom and bathroom, hoovered the rest of the house, made the beds and left the place s***k and span for the next residency.

Zoé Marzeau, from Réunion Island, is a multidisciplinary artist working with identity, memory and healing through textiles and storytelling. Her work explores the impacts of colonialism and invites engagement with themes of remembrance.

Lison Degrave works in charcoal on paper and experiments with volume in plasterboard. Interested in mental health and solitude, she uses memory and blurred temporalities to express a feeling of absence and emptiness. She is currently exploring the relationship between mental health, art and its therapeutic effect.

They leave on Monday and we will be very sad to see them go. They have added so much to Live Art Ireland. Thank you Lison and Zoé for everything!

24/08/2026

István Kovács and Veronica Cordova de la Rosa attended the In-Between Residency at Live Art Ireland in February 2026 from 13th-22nd.

István Kovács (b. 1964, Budapest) is one of Central Europe’s leading performance artists, with over 24 years of experience. His work explores the physical body, life, and death, often creating striking live images using materials such as paint, plastic film, and cellophane. Kovács’s performances address humanity’s relationship to birth, mortality, and rebirth, blending conceptual depth with visual intensity.

Veronica Cordova de la Rosa is a Mexican-born visual artist, curator and educator based in Oxford, UK. Her interdisciplinary practice draws on Nahua artistic philosophy and explores relationships between people, materials, environments and curiosity. Working with objects and participatory processes, she creates temporary spaces where transformation, experimentation and collective experience can take place. She is the founder and director of the Live Art and Performance Group (LAPER), an artist-led platform for performance, research and exchange.

Veronica says "I responded to the moment, to my relationship with my body, and to the situation of being photographed by Istevan. I performed the actions, and Istevan photographed them. During the performance, I covered my body with watercolours depicting breasts from different bodies. My body therefore became covered with images of women’s breasts and was placed in relation to another person’s gaze in this case, the photographer’s gaze".
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21/08/2026

North Tipperary Q***r Shed and Live Art Ireland are coming together to curate 'The Carmilla Night Fair', a q***r night of poetry , sound, drama, art, theatre, crafts and dance. Taking place on Saturday 3rd October at Live Art Ireland!

Who is highlighting this event?

Didi Delaney will be exhibiting their paintings in the barn at Live Art Ireland. A lot of Didi's work has been shaped by their own q***r identity, alongside their love and passion for nature.

Jennifer Ryan-Kelly is an illustrator and animator who draws inspiration from the depths of Irish mythology. She will be providing 2 workshops: workshop 1 will take you on an imaginative journey to the faerie realm and workshop 2 you will design interactive paper dolls that reveal hidden surprises.

Synthesise Her is a feminist sound technology project founded to heal the mind/body split within technological learning environments. Together, Viva and Roísín perform as [SPIT] using custom built electronic instruments, samples and movement.

Litreacha is a q***r poetry collective and run a monthly open mic for q***r writers and musicians in Cork City to share their work and socialise.

Brendan Egan is an interdisciplinary artist from West Clare experimenting with movement, sound and material to develop experiential approaches to place, body and perception.

Rhayn Abner is a writer originally from California. She specialises in short stories in speculative fiction, particularly in the horror genre.

Extra event details: The tickets are €30. Link in bio. On sale now. Please get in touch with us if you cannot pay the full price of the ticket but would still like to go. The events starts at 5pm but we recommend arriving at 4pm. Events will be happening simultaneously in different areas around Live Art Ireland. There is an option to camp at Live Art Ireland on Saturday night or to stay in the house (first come first serve - there is an extra fee for staying in the house - PM 2 book).

Please note most event spaces are accessed by stairs

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19/08/2026

The work-in-progress Flesh As Witness performance took place on August 15th from 3pm to 6.30pm at Live Art Ireland. Mentored by Rubiane Maia and Manuel Vason, seven artists developed site-specific work responding to the natural surroundings and their internal ancestral stories for an audience of thirty-five.

The event opened in The Blue Room with Deej Fabyc's passing point, where the audience wrapped areas on Deej's body affected by chronic pain in cardboard and 'fragile' tape.

Everyone then walked through two fields to a pond shelter, where Jennifer Ng wove hand-made rope through branches and her fingers in a study of vulnerability. Across the field in a cleared grove, Nadia Tamerji wrapped latex around a tree and pushed her body through it while projecting raw, guttural sounds of rebirth.

Back in the yard, Alan Pak Fung used an anchored farm gate as a climbing trellis to explore the movement of nature.

In the barn, Sara performed Stones in the Hem, sewing mesh-wrapped stones onto her dress and dragging them across cobblestones to a Georgian mirror while examining the question 'If I were a stone'.

On the first-floor landing, audience members viewed a film by Zoe Marzeau exploring identity through water imprints left on the rocks around Live Art Ireland.

Finally, Brendan Egan ambushed the waiting audience from the re-wilded grass, drawing inspiration from ambush predators before leading everyone to The Blue Room for a live soundscape and moving image performance.

Rubiane Maia and Manuel Vason mentored the artists in connecting their individual mediums directly to the land.

This event was in collaboration with North Tipperary Q***r Shed. Funded by Tipperary Coco, Department of Justice, The Workspaces Grant from the Arts council and Heritage Week.

Photos by Manuel Vason in collaboration with the artists.
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13/08/2026

Flesh As Witness residency began on July 15th. Six artists have been collaborating with the land, witnessing each other in story and questioning how performance becomes transmission. Mentors Rubiane Maia and Manuel Vason, created a structured workshop programme that culminates in a participatory work-in-progress performance, taking place this Saturday August 15th 3pm at Live Art Ireland.

Alan Pak Lun Fung explores how the climbers comprehend each other while growing through space in his performance entitled 'The Climbers'.

Jennifer Ng, inspired by Tsing’s (2015) concepts of ‘latent commons’ and ‘multispecies assemblages’, is interested in how contingency, unpredictability and vulnerability become sites of encounters where the not-yet-articulated can find its place.

Zoe Marzeau asks how water can tell our identities as she left water imprints of her body on the rocks around Live Art Ireland, letting them disappear as they evaporated with the light and the heat of the sun. A performance over several days.

Sara Andrade Monteiro entitles her performance 'Stones in the Hem' and says "If I were a stone, I could spend my life beneath the surface of a river, allowing the water to smooth every sharp edge until I no longer remembered where I had began. I could rest on the summit of a mountain, holding the weight of wind, rain, and passing seasons. Instead, I carry the stones with me."

Nadia Tamerji is interested in exaggerating the human body beyond reality, particularly the skin. Working with latex and the landscape, her aim is to create a ritual that explores themes of rebirth, memory, emergence and repression. Inspired by storytelling, the work in progress is heavily influenced by mythology and metamorphosis.

Brendan Egan watches the fresh water pike, an ambush predator. To ambush someone is to wait beyond their awareness, then strike before they realise they were being watched. Convergence is when two or more things come together to form a new whole.

Manuel Vason collaborated with the artists during a mentored performance-to-camera workshop to produce these photos. Zoe Marzeau is using her own photo.

11/08/2026

At Live Art Ireland we are preparing spaces for work-in-progress performances on Saturday for Flesh As Witness. In this Video, Jennifer Ng is building a pond for her performance with the help of the other artists on the residency, the volunteers and Deej Fabyc. The enormous effort of moving ancient rocks in order to put pond lining down and then replacing the rocks inspired to make a video and dramatise the effort. Once the video was edited all the artists agreed that this accidentally was a performance video, leaving on the sound of slow motion grunts and struggles. Jennifer Ng is working with the non-human elements of this small eco system; the rocks, the moss, the mud, the sticks, the trees, the leaves, the birds, the feathers, the bugs, the midges, to observe, learn and practice all the multiple forms of communication, especially communication that is not practiced between humans. This video captures the communication and the developing relationship between the rock and the artists. There is no telling when this rock was last moved or even touched.

11/08/2026

At Live Art Ireland we are preparing spaces for work-in-progress performances on Saturday for Flesh As Witness. In this Video, Jennifer Ng is building a pond for her performance with the help of the other artists on the residency, the volunteers and Deej Fabyc. The enormous effort of moving ancient rocks in order to put pond lining down and then replacing the rocks inspired to make a video and dramatise the effort. Once the video was edited all the artists agreed that this accidentally was a performance video, leaving on the sound of slow motion grunts and struggles. Jennifer Ng is working with the non-human elements of this small eco system; the rocks, the moss, the mud, the sticks, the trees, the leaves, the birds, the feathers, the bugs, the midges, to observe, learn and practice all the multiple forms of communication, especially communication that is not practiced between humans. This video captures the communication and the developing relationship between the rock and the artists. There is no telling when this rock was last moved or even touched.
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09/08/2026

Zoe Marceau work in progress from the Flesh as Witness residency mentored by Rubiane Maia & Manuel Vason —> In this project, I translate the memory of water,
Flowing through us, living in communion with it.
From our watery blood to surrounding seas,
We carry its essence, leaving the imprint of water.

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