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In 2013, I was invited to write a response to the Fix Festival International Live Art Biennial by Catalyst Gallery in Belfast.
The publication from the event, including documentation and writing has recently been published and will be launching officially shortly.
Information on Fix 13 is available here.
Essay in Gorse Issue 4
Image by Suzanne Walsh
All Stops to the Point - An East Wall Story is an essay of mine on housing issues, gentrification as well as a poetic musing on the place that is East Wall in Dublin. The essay is published on Ian Maleney's Fallow Media website.
The essay can be read here.
TOOLAND JOHANN ROLAND BRENDA MARTIN PHILIP PUCK NICKO & YOU
I have a piece of writing in this print publication by Karina Beumer, a Belgian artist based in Antwerp.
My story is called Your Form in my Future and is a reflection on viewing art as a quest for a encounter on the level of the chemistry one has with a potential lover.
The work of Karina Beumer is playful and subversive and also involves performances and videos. She often 'interviews' artworks.
Info on this publication (published by Tique) and some links to her work can be found here.
We also had a previous collaboration documented here, in the Oonagh Young Gallery in April 2015.
Also further work of Karina Beumer can be found on her website.
Photo by Alice Maher
I perform musically (singing) with a cast of talented others in Red Moon Rising by Vivienne Dick, which will be premiering at Experimenta 2015 in the London Film Festival, where it is also up for the Short Film award. The film will be shown at 3pm Saturday 17th at Cineworld Haymarket and at 8.30pm NFT3.
'Sumptuous nature is artificially created from the female imagination as if the Garden of Eden was made for the pleasure of women only. The female inhabitants perform to a soundtrack that is radically classical or vice-versa.'
Still from film by Alice Maher
Update
This work as well as previous film 'The Irreducible Difference of the Other', which I also made an audio contribution for, were part of large exhibition of Vivienne Dick's work in Irish Museum of Modern Art 2017 titled 93% Stardust. Information on the show, which was a double exhibition along with Nan Goldin can be found here.
More info on film can be found here and here
In 2009 Gavin Prior, Michael Tanner, Brian Conniffe and myself made a fictional spoken word piece about an imaginary island off the coast of Ireland.
I used a lot of stories I'd heard about islands around Ireland as well as stories from my childhood to come up with the background of the island. This was then built upon by Gavin Prior and myself, with a contributing appearance from Brian Conniffe. The 'documentary' was edited and produced by Michael Tanner. Soundcloud link here.
The video was filmed and edited by Paradoxical Recordings and shows the first part of the set of B.Conniffe/D.MacDiarmada/S.Walsh. The set involved elements of composition, improvisation, multiple instruments, recordings and vocals sang from H.P.Lovecraft.
Audio mix - Andy Mooney. Camera - Andy Mooney and Jonathan Sammon/Miranda Driscoll.
Event hosted by Deserted Village.
Update - Colony seems to have gone offline at present, will try and archive the article on website in future instead. Please contact if you have interest in reading this article.
I have a piece of writing in the latest issue of Colony This piece is a creative response to a recent show in the Glucksman Gallery in Cork; Fieldworks - Animal Habitats in Contemporary Art. Colony is an online literary magazine that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art writing and more and this issue has the theme of magic.
The art-writing section is edited by artist Tracy hanna.
The writing can be found here.
Playing a gig in The Joinery, Arbourhill on October 31st with Brian Conniffe and Diarmuid MacDiarmada as part of the 'Halloween Spooktacular' event organised by the Deserted Village label.
We will be performing a set that includes elements of composition and improvisation, and perhaps some channeling of spirits, in keeping with the time of year.
Doors open at 8pm and it's BYOB
The event also includes performances by Tarracóir and Katie O'Neill and the facebook event page is here.
Recent track by Brian Conniffe, Diarmuid MacDiarmada and Suzanne Walsh.
The magazine I edit, along with Lily Cahill and Maeve-Ann Austen, is being launched this Friday.
Critical Bastards, a continuing experiment in creative art criticism and writing, will be launching the 11th issue of the magazine with a DJ set by Paul Maguire, drinks and the opportunity to purchase the publication. All are welcome. The event takes place in Studio 6 in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin on Friday 24th of October. Facebook event page is here.
Issue 11 features drawings by Jason Dunne and written contributions from Barry Kehoe, Ingrid Lyons, Niamh McCooey, Conor O'Grady, Seán O Sullivan, Maeve-Ann Austen, Lily Cahill and Suzanne Walsh. Layout is by Caoimhe Doyle.
The magazine will shortly be available in The Glucksman Gallery Cork, Ormston House Limerick, Galway Arts Centre, Catalyst Gallery Belfast, and The Library Project Dublin. It will also be available at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Bookfair in November.
Magazine website here.
This is an essay on the artist Roisin McNamee, originally written during my 'Art in the Contemporary World' Masters, in 2013.
Image by Roisin McNamee
The essay can be read here.
A piece of writing that I submitted to Visual Verse's online artist/writers' project has been accepted and published. The piece is in response to recent news of walrus beachings and continued loss of wildlife on the planet.
Visual Verse provide an image by an artist as a prompt for writers.
“And yet not completely: the soft top of the head can still twitch with incoming images, like walrus stampedes on melting ice-floes. It’s better to be the last of your kind, when you rule the world, because your kind is burning it up, even here under the clear blue skies.”
You can read the rest over on Visual Verse, along with other responses here.
Image - Rhona Byrne