Film created as part of The Casement Project, a multi-disciplinary project about Roger Casement, a British knight, Irish rebel and international humanitarian.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Documentation of the 12 hour group performance in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin in May 2016. Part of LADA Screens.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Examines the embodiment of pain in Máiréad Delaney’s performance.
Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Publication on the Summer School delivered by Create (Dublin) and Counterpoints Arts (London).
Features 32 selected videos in various different formats made from 1999 – 2017.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
A Troubles Archive Essay. Includes the programme for Performance Art + Northern Ireland, exhibition at the Golden Thread Gallery (13/8/2015 – 30/9/2015)
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive – and can the police deliver justice?
A collection of written and visual responses to the works of British artist, Qasim Riza Shaheen. Essays, reflections and conversations, by eminent scholars, curators, artists and collaborators, consider the multiple aspects and the experience of his works.
In English and Urdu.
The story of a housewife who delves into the underworld of domesticity.
Exhibition programme. The LAB Gallery, Dublin, 18 June – 19 August 2018.
The essential reader for today's creative leaders and cultural practitioners, including original contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators and writers who examine the historical precedent of South Africa; the current cultural boycott of Israel; freedom of speech and self-censorship; and long-distance activism. It is about consequences and causes of cultural boycott.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Britain, this fully illustrated catalogue explores the history of attacks on art in Britain, from the reformation of the sixteenth century to the present day, demonstrating how religious, political, moral and aesthetic controversy can become arenas for assaults on art.
Live action.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
30 minute documentary about urban change and to role of arts and culture in Dublin, in the midst of regeneration.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Drawing threads from the meta to the micro level inevitably leads to a conversation about power – who has it, who doesn’t, who should have it, how it is adjudicated. TransActions #2 picks up on this context and sets out to pose questions for the field of socially-engaged art and education practice in 2017.
Publication on the project conducted in October 2016. The artist slept with the same rock every night for one week.
A publication highlighting a selection of the many events, opportunities, publications and research projects that LADA produced over the course of 12 months in 2014/15.
Publication on the project conducted in October 2016. The artist made hand-sewn garments, wearing only one until the next one was made, and exploring the relationship between art and ecology.
Video installation, inspired by cases of institutional abuse in Ireland, especially the Magdalene Laundries.
Contains performance programme, performance texts and 3 CDs/DVDs, which include still images, a 6 minute edit and video of the full performance.
Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).
A performance sculpture that segregates the artist in the “white cube” environment that has come to epitomise the contemporary art world.
Video commissioned by LADA for 'talking heads' series part of Access to all areas: Live art & disability in New York.
Edited video from Performance Sculpture, 2014. 3:26
Video by Peter Richards
Amanda Coogan collaborates with 13 performers to explores the Church Street disaster of 1913 and its parallel with contemporary Irish society.
The performance took place in the Hugh Lane Gallery over 12 hours. It was captured in this video using timelapse photography, the entire 12 hours resulting in a new 8 minute film.
Film: Paddy Cahill
Sound Design/Composition: Mike Glennon
Taking Dublin and Chicago as two contemporary urban sites for exploration, The MA in Socially Engaged Art (Further, Adult and Community Education) at the National College of Art and Design (Dublin) have partnered with Stockyard Institute (Chicago) to explore the physical, geographic and social fabric of the two cities.
The author provides a philosophical reflection on the issues of democratic bodies and citizenship in Ireland through a survey of the work artist Sandra Johnson.
A collection of postcards documenting a collaborative series of performances by visual artists Frances Mezzetti and Pauline Cummins from 2008 to 2014.
Exhibition catalogue of the retrospective at The Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1996.
Documentation of durational performance considerng acts of political whitewashing. Performed as part of LABOUR (2012): a touring exhibition of Live Art, featuring eleven leading female artists who are resident within, or native to, Northern and Southern Ireland.
A collection of critical essays and artist reflections considering some of the richest and most important developments to take place in contemporary Irish theatre and performance.
The Visual Force is the sixth instalment in the series Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art. Taking Joseph Beuys’ visit to Belfast, in 1974, as a starting point, Sverakova’s exhibition looks at the works of artists across three generations, whose works were in some way landmarks in their field. Featured artists: John Aiken; Vivien Burnside; John Carson; Brian Connolly; Martina Corry; Lynne Davies-Jones; Ciara Finnegan; Adrian Hall; Tony Hill; Ronnie Hughes; Steve Hurst; Sharon Kelly; Fiona Larkin; Alistair MacLennan; Paddy McCann; Moira McIver; Peter Richards; Dan Shipsides; Theo Sims; Una Walker and Charles Walsh.
Historically inspired literary fiction based on events during the ‘Easter Rising’ in Dublin.
Catalogue of the work presented by the artists representing Ireland at the 26th biennial on “Free Territory” extraterritorial zone where artists erect their utopian settlements. Includes audio CD (see REF. D1968).
Video document by Jonathan Sammon, sound by Trevor Knight.
This video document follows the dancer/choreographer on an improvised tour of the islands off the west Coast of Ireland. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
AUDIO CD accompanying the catalogue (see REF. P2018) of the work presented by the artists representing Ireland at the 26th biennial on “Free Territory” extraterritorial zone where artists erect their utopian settlements.
A collection of articles on contemporary performance art from Ireland dating between 1982 and 2010.
From Create News.
Documenting exhibitions at the LAB Gallery.
Performance Space, London 9/2/12, The Void, Derry, 25/2/12, The LAB, Dublin, 10/2/12.
A show about shape-shifting, sensuality and self-regard, first performed at the RVT in August 2010
A site-responsive durational performance interrogating the continual haunting power of the Famine in relation to the Republic of Ireland’s recent economic collapse.
CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland), See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland) See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland), Gunther Berkus, Sinead O’Donnell, Julie McGowan. See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland), Patrick Ireland, Joan Fowler: irish exhibition of living art, literature, installation. See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland), Joan Fowler, Review: Performances, Irish Exhibition of Living Art Project Arts Centre, Dublin 20-21 July 1984, living art. See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
Patrick Ireland in an Interview with Gemma Tipton. See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.
CIRCA (Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland), Micky Donnelly, Review: Live Performance, Crescent Centre Jan-Feb 1982, features photographs and feedback from events. See also, Brutal Silences Study Room Guide, catalogue ref. no. P1661.