Darklight , The Dublin Art Mill

Straylight Performance Weekender 2009 UPDATED!

Straylight Performance Art Weekender
@ Darklight 2009
8th October – 11 October
Mill Street Studios

Straylight Performance Art Festival
8th October – 11 October
The Dublin Art Mill

The Straylight Performance Art Festival presents a weekend of live performance art. Bringing together the work of 25 different artists, from established and internationally recognised practicioners in the field of live performance work, to exciting new emerging artists.The festival will take place over 4 days at the Dublin Art Mill. Straylight is the Darklight Film Festival’s visual arts strand and is curated by Niamh Murphy.

On Darklight’s launch night – Thursday 8th October, at 8.30pm – Niamh Murphy and Meabh Redmond will be showing their group performance Something Specials on Smithfield Plaza. This performance event will see 20 women standing in formation voicing their frustration with attitude. This is a substantial new piece of work from emerging artists Murphy and Redmond. The piece has been developed in collaboration with the twenty performers, a mixture of actors and non actors and is the result of a unique process of call and return.

On Friday 9th October Straylight’s Performance Festival takes up residence in the Dublin Art Mill. Friday’s program will focus on emerging artists, culminating with a live performance open to the public from 6-8pm. The artists are Linda Conroy, Michelle O Shea, Sinead Corcaran, Aoife Casey, Mia Mularky, Ciara Mc Keon, Roisin Bierne, Mags Geaney, Pearl Henegan, Anna Maria Healy and Niamh Creely.

All of these performance events are free to the public. Contact us at straylightlive(at)gmail.com to book your audience tickets.

Places are limited so booking is strongly advised.

Performance is omnipresent in contemporary art practice, and internationally it is in the throes of its second wave. Straylight will bring attention to this explosion of the live in the visual arts, highlighting indigenous artists alongside international practicioners. Straylight will capitalise on this abundance of homegrown talent to produce the first Irish performance art festival.

Straylight’s performance art festival is co-curated by the artists Niamh Murphy and Amanda Coogan.

Contact: straylightlive(at)gmail.com

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