La Pocha Nostra Vest and Page Summit
Back 4 days now from my week at Milford House, home of Live Art Ireland, attending an intensive week of performance workshopping with collectives Vest and Page, and La Pocha Nostra. Still thinking about the experience. Not had sufficient time to reflect fully on my [...]
Do It Yourself
It was very nice to be put beside my good friend Evelyn in the July/August edition of Visual Artists Ireland Newsheet. She is a get things done woman for sure and is my age. I liked having more or less full editorial control over the [...]
June- emotional ineptitude and decreptitude and the notion of effort
June, Friday 21st precisely. Coming up to a week back from a family holiday to Sacramento, California. Generously and kindly hosted by our friends Robye and Matthew. Kids had an amazing, different experience. Constant intense heat, huge cars, freeways, eating out constantly, swimming pools. Thats [...]
p(art)y Here and Now June- our 5th p(art)y
All photos here courtesy here of Avia Gurman I asked each participant for 3 words to describe their experience of participating today p(art)y Here and Now, June 22, Breakthrough Dance, Ennis We were still in that immediate post performative moment- no-one was fully [...]
Making a bad ting good and ringfencing.
Late last years and early this years spate of rejections prompted me to write a rant- now much edited- seen above in May/June edition of Visual Artist Ireland News sheet. Delighted to have a piece published for VAI. Ask, or rather proffer, and you shall [...]
Performancey weekend and Atlantic tales
Had a busy weekend of performance. Weeks of domestic drudgery (slight exaggeration here) and frantic laptop tapping and then it all comes at once.. Well a lot of hunched down in drizzle or freezing cold painting also during January. We had our inaugural p(art)y Here [...]
