Current Exhibitions
Queen of Eyes performance with Array Collective
The Melt Gala Ball Empire Music Hall Belfast
8 - 12pm 3 March 2023
www.arraystudiosbelfast.com/melt-gala.h…Bishop Brigid with Herstory.ie
Street performances for St. Brigid’s Day Galway
5 - 10pm 26 January 2023 Galway City locations and MuseumA Very Hard Border performance with Rachel Fallon and Array Collective
Nuns Island Galway Arts Centre
2 - 5pm 20 August 2022
www.galwayartscentre.ie/whats-on/array-collectiveIn the Robing Room (2012-2021) film screening
The 5 Lamps Arts Festival
9 April Dublin North Inner City 2022
ti.to/the-robing-roomIn the Robing Room (2012-2021) film screening
A Nation Under the Influence: Ireland at 100
Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris
3 Feb - 30 March 2022
www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/agen…Áine Phillips and Vivienne Dick in conversation with curator Rosetta Beaugendre at the CCI Paris on Thursday 24 February 2022
Artists Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment Banners
The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now: Protest and Conflict (Chapter 4)
November 2021-22 Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin
imma.ie/whats-on/narrow-gate-of-the-her…
Red Couch: Escapology and Buttered Up
The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
3 September - 16 October 2021
live performance 5pm 17 September
thecourthousegallery.com/
Screenings of Coming Full CircleToronto Multicultural Film Festival
23 - 28 September 2021
torontomulticulturalfilmfestival.com/Roma Shorts Film Festival, Italy
November - December 2021
www.romashortfilmfest.com/Noble International Film Festival Karnataka India 2021
Cucalorus Film Festival Wilmington NC USA
10 - 14 November 2021
www.cucalorus.org/Toronto 4th Multinational Film Festival, Ontario Canada,
23 - 28 September 2021
torontomulticulturalfilmfestival.com/
NEWS, PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES & EVENTS:
+++OUT NOW+++HOT OFF THE PRESS & ONLINE+++Scene 8 Journal Special issue: Performance and Ireland
Published by Intellect Books UK
Co-edited by Áine Phillips, Siobhan O'Gorman & Maire Kelly
Scene8 Special issue:Performance & IrelandTo read our editorial go to:
Scene8 Special issue:Performance & Ireland/editorial
Life is Bound in Secret Knots (3 min) screening, R-A-W Online Exhibition of Performance Art Video Works from around the Globe Beyond Belfast/ NI
vimeo.com/499988822
Life is Bound in Secret Knots, performance as part of Home Truths Engage Gallery, Galway
25th November 12 - 4pm 2020
www.engageartstudios.com/home-truths/
Reparation: In Memory, performance as part of Home Truths
Engage Gallery, Galway
8th March 1 - 6pm 2020
www.engageartstudios.com/home-truths/
Buttered Up exhibition of performance objects, images & installation
MART Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin
Opening 6th March (closed due to Covid from 13th March)
Re-opening 8 - 25th July 2020
www.mart.iePerformaphilia, an exhibition of performance watercolours
25th January - 29th February 2020
Malahide Library, Main Street Malahide, Co. DublinButtered Up screening at
Alchemy Film Festival Hawick, Scottish Borders UK
Online (due to Covid) 1 - 3rd May 2020
alchemyfilmandarts.org.uk/festival/Buttered Up screening at
KLAPPE AUF! Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg
Metropolis Cinema 12:00h 9th Nov 2019
klappe-auf.com/en/Buttered Up at FIX19 Screenings
FIX Live Art Biennale
Catalyst Project Space, Callender St. Belfast
28 - 29 September 2 - 6 pm
www.catalystarts.org.uk/fix19De-Bordering film screening
Performing Borders
Dash Café: Europe in London
The Bedford 19 May 2019
performingborders.live/2019/03/14/guest…Buttered Up at 1st DUMBO FF
Film Festival monthly Brooklyn NYC
www.dumbofilmfestival.com/ACREA Banners, At The Gates
Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne, curated by
Anne Magher also Centre d'Art Contemporain
La Criée, Rennes France 2019
www.kunsthaus-rhenania.de
www.la-criee.org/en/at-the-gate/Buttered Up performance
Sirius Arts Centre Summer Fundraiser Event
Cobh, Cork 22 June 2019, 9 - 10:30pm
www.siriusartscentre.ieButtered Up screening at Dingle International Film Festival
March 2018
www.dinglefilmfestival.com/Buttered Up screening at the Winter Open, Rua Red
South Dublin Arts Centre, Dec 7 - Jan 10 2019
www.ruared.ie/winter-open-2018ACREA Banners at The Gates
Talbot Rice Gallery, Oct 26 - Jan 26 2019
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
www.ed.ac.uk/talbot-riceACREA Banners at The Periodical Review #8
Pallas Projects Dublin, Dec/Jan 2019
pallasprojects.org/periodical-reviewRedress in the Robing Room at FemLink Art screenings 2018
Gallery Sitka Fitchburg, USA, Galatea Gallery in Boston
Galway Arts Centre
Ikeas Secret at Feeling screenings 2018
Dak'art, Senegal, Centro Cultural Corrientes, Argentia
femlink.orgButtered Up at Cucalorus Film Festival, 2018
Nov 9 Jengo’s Playhouse & Nov 11 Station Main
Wilmington, North Carolina
www.cucalorus.org
Buttered Up at BF Artist Film Festival VII
SET, Dalston Lane, London 7pm October 22 2018
Nottingham Trent University 22 Nov 2018
www.bfartistfilmfestival.comButtered Up, New Shorts screening
Clare Island Film Festival
1st September 2018
clareislandfilmfestival.wordpress.comThe Procession - Artists Campaign to Repeal the 8th Banners
38th EVA International Biennial, Limerick
www.eva.ieFuture States, Irish performance at LADA & Fierce! Festivals
Culture Ireland GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in Britain
Border Patrollers, Thurs July 19, LADA Bethnal Green
www.thisisliveart.co.uk/border-patrolle…Buttered Up screening - new shorts programme
30th Galway Film Fleadh
Town Hall Theatre, Galway 12 July 2018
www.galwayfilmfleadh.comActs to Objects @ LACE Los Angeles, USA
Video, installation and live performance, 15 March - 29 April
www.mart.ie/portfolios/acts-to-objects/TARR: The Artists Resource Room
First Friday of the month @ 11am in Glór, Ennis
A resource room for artists funded by Clare Arts Office
Presentations // Dialogue // Exchange Ideas // Network & Connect
www.facebook.com/TheArtistsResourceRoom/LADA Screens: Future Histories & I'm Rodger Casement
Event Space, The White Building
Live Art Development Agency London
19:00 on 6 June 2017
Funded by Culture Ireland
www.thisisliveart.co.uk/lada-screens-fu…
Keynote presentation by Áine Phillips 6 May 16:00 - 17:30
Research in Real Time: Practice in Progress
Interdisciplinary programme of PaR performances & presentations
O'Donoghue Centre for Drama Theatre & Performance
NUI Galway 5 & 6 May 2017
researchinrealtime.wordpress.com/about/Those who make art teach
Faculty Exhibition, Burren College of Art
Ballyvaghan, Co. Clare
6th October - 25th November 2016
www.burrencollege.ie/exhibitions/bca-fa…Mot Juste
Residency & workshops collaboration with Justyna Koeke
Dráiocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin
14 - 22nd August 2016 10am - 5pm daily
www.draiocht.ie/
Buttered
Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Cork
23rd July 2016 at 10pm
www.siriusartscentre.ie/Heartstrings
Mobius performance space
55 Norfolk St, Cambridge, MA 02139
6th February 2016 at 7pm
www.mobius.orgI Love To You
performance at LAPSody
5th International Festival & Conference of Live Art Performance Studies
University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
28 May 2015 12:00 - 13:00
www.uniarts.fiConversation with Alastair McLennan
Performance, Collaboration, Photography: Actions of Exchange
Tate Britain, Clore Auditotium, London
17 february 2015 18:30 - 20:00
www.tate.org.uk/tate-britain/talks/perf…Performance Art in Ireland: A History
Lecture at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
part of Mobile Encounters programme
17 January 2015 at 2pm
www.imma.ie/en/page_236929.htm/Aspiration
Performance at NEST Festival Kilkenny
41 Parliament Street, Kilkenny
18 Ocober 2014 at 8pm
nestkilkenny.blogspot.ie/Performing the Self: Performing the Other
Workshop at NEST Festival Kilkenny
41 parliament Street, Kilkenny
19 October 2014 at 9.30am - 1.30pmPerforming the Self: Performing the Other
Workshop at Dublin Live Art Festival
MART Galleries Rathmines Dublin
25 - 26 September 2014
www.dublinliveartfestival.com/I Love To You
Performance at Dublin Live Art Festival
MART Galleries Rathmines & Art Lot Harcourt Road Dublin
25 September 2014
www.dublinliveartfestival.com/I Love To You
Newtown Castle International Performance Festival
Burren College of Art County Clare 1 - 2 August 2014Redress in the Robing Room
VIdeo installation, collaboration with Vivienne DIck
Eigse Festival, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art Carlow
6 June - 8 September 2014Redress series
Exhibition at NAG Gallery
59 Frances Street, Dublin 8. 6 - 30 March 2014
www.nagallery.ieAspiration
Performance, Bel-Mad Spanish/N. Ireland Performance Art Exchange
Catalyst Arts Belfast, 6 - 8 February 2014Aspiration
performance at Belfast International Festival of Performance Art
GlassBox Space University of Ulster Belfast, 10 - 14 March 2014Imaginary Archive documents sans future
Exhibition, curated by Greg Scholette
<rotor> CCA, Graz Austria, 2t1 Sept - 23 Nov 2013
VCRC: Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev Ukraine 9 - 23 April 2014
www.vcrc.org.ua/en.htmCommon Ground
Exhibition, Occupy Space
No.9 Lower Cecil Street Limerick 8 - 30 Nov 2013
www.occupyspace.com/Becoming Formless
exhibition, Fighting For Words Resistance Gallery
Bethnal Green, London
24th October 2013Book of Invisible Stains
exhibition, Imaginary Archive curated by Gregory Scholette
Center for contemporart art, Graz Austria
& VCRC: Visual Culture research Center, Kiev Ukraine
21st September - 23rd November 2013Aspiration
performance at Dublin Live Art Festival,
The Back Loft Dublin 8
28th September 2013Red Weight
performance & exhibition at Fanaberie Festival
Gallery Bunkier Sztuki Krakow, Poland
24th September - 10th october 2013Declaration of Human
performance to camera collaboration with Manuel Vason
Ormston House summer exhibition, curated by Ian Russel, Limerick
& Something Recalled curated by Helen Carey, Glor Ennis, Ireland
July - August 2013Tree Girls
Installation, Big House Festival
Castletown House, Kildare Ireland
2nd - 5th August 2013Spectral
performance with sound by Trevor Knight
Cavan Institute, Main Street Cavan
Trans-Art Festival
curated by Sally O'Dowd, Joe Keenan, Siobhan Harton
12th August 2012Redress in the Robing Room
performance & installation collaboration with Vivienne Dick
The Bishops Robing Room, Heritage Council Buildings
Killkenny Arts Festival
Curated by Joephie Kelliher
11th August 2012Spectral
performance with sound by Trevor Knight
Unit 1, Exchange Gallery Temple Bar Dublin
Curated by Dominic Thorpe and Ciara McKeon
31st July 2012Redress Trouble
"The Great Gallery of Living Sculpture" curated by Antoine Pickels
durational performances by 8 European artists
Trouble Festival, Les Halles Brussels Belgium
2nd June 2012LABOUR
8 hour durational performances by 11 Irish female artists
]PerformanceS P A C E[ London 10th February 2012
The Void Derry 25th February 2012
The Lab Dublin 10th March 2012Illusion Dresses & Tree Dresses
City of Women, curated by Mara Vujic;
Ljubljana, Slovenia
5th - 15th October 2011Redress Series 3
Live@8, The Guesthouse Cork
9th September 2011Redress Series 2
Live@8, Trades Club Sligo
A Model Niland project, curated by Vivienne Dick
5th August 2011, 8-11pmRedress Series 1
Live@8, Occupy Space Thomas Street Limerick
5th May 2011, 8-11pmRedress
RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW Irish Performance Art
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin curated by Amanda Coogan, Dominick Thorpe
& Niamh Murphy
4th November 2010, 6-10pmThe Art of Love(war)
NON Festival Bergen
curated by Agnes Nedregard
Norway, 28 - 30th January 2011The Lost Runway Kyoto_
"The Art of Interventon, Critical Enquiries into Intersections
of Private and Public Memory" - Researchers, Symposia, Exhibitions & Events, Collaborations & Publications
Kyoto Seika University, Open Workshop
Kyoto Arts Centre, Live Performance
Fleur Gallery, KSU Kyoto, Exhibition "Life With Art"
12th - 23rd October 2010The Lost Runway London
"...Louder than Bombs" Art, Action & Activism
7 Weeks, 7 Residencies, 7 Ways to Activate Change
In collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency
The Stanley Picker Gallery
Kingston University, London
16th - 20th February 2010Louder Than Bombs is a collaboration between Stanley Picker Gallery, the Live Art Development Agency and the The Art of Intervention: The Intersections of Public and Private Memory, a research partnership between Kingston University and Kyoto Seika University supported by The British Council.
Stanley Picker GalleryThe Doctor is in
Straylight at Darklight Film Festival curated by Amanda Coogan
The Dublin Art Mill, Dublin 8
11th October 2009, 5pm - 8pmThe Doctor is in
Centre Line at Engage Artists Studios
Cathedral Buildings, Galway
23rd May 2009, 3pm - 7pmThe Art of Love(war)
The National Review of Live Art in the UK
The Arches, Glasgow curated by Nikki Millican
11th February 2009The Art of Love(war)
Exist in 08, International Performance Festival
curated by Rebecca Cunningham & Zane Trow
Brisbane, Australia, 23rd October 2008Ceile & I
Live@No.8
monthly Live Art Nights Galway
Curated by Maeve Mulrennan
Bar8 The Docks, Galway 8 - 11pm, 23rd July 2008The Art of Love(war)
Off Beat weekend of performance at ART
Michael Mayhew Studios Manchester
Curated by Michael Mayhew
Whalley Range Manchester 20th - 22nd June 2008
performance at ARTThe Art of Love(war)
Excursions
Festival of performance in Limerick, Ireland
Curated by Sheila Deegan
Dagda Space Limerick 8pm, 26th January 2008TulcaLive
Festival of Live & video performance
Curated by Áine Phillips as part of TULCA
Season of Visual Art in Galway, Ireland
Nuns Island Studio, Galway 9th - 26th November 2007
TulcaLive @ Nuns IslandThe Art of Love(war)
The Second International Festival in the Context of Art/The Differences
Mazovia Centre of Culture and Art
Warsaw, Poland 6th October 2007A 'personally political' Afternoon Tea
Discussions with Live & Performance Artists,
Robert Pacitti, Rajni Shah, Sam Rose, Andrew Mitchelson, Richard DeDominici at The Live Art Development Agency, London 30th August 2007The Work of Work
An autobiographical performance at the opening event of the exhibition
Artspace 21, GTI buildings, Father Griffin rd. Galway 21st July 2007 at 12.30 - 2pm (Galway Arts Festival)The Soapbox Sessions
curated by Sally Timmons
Galway Arts Centre 18th/19th May 2007Harness
Hotel Ballymun,
curated by Seamus Nolan & Lisa Marie Johnson
Dublin May 2007Harness
Performing Rights Vienna & Live Art Development Agency, London
Tanzquartier Vienna March 2007