Winter Salon
by Gaylene Gould + Dee Maher
A space to ingest and digest three courses of food, nourishment and ideas about Live Art Practice
Saturday 09th at 1pm – 5.30pm
Live Collision invites the highly acclaimed artist and convener Gaylene Gould to host an afternoon of conversation, in collaboration with emerging food artist and innovator, Dee Maher. Transforming the Cube at Project Arts Centre into a Winter Salon, we invite you to spend a perfect Saturday afternoon in good company, making interesting conversation over delicious food designed to stimulate the mind and senses.
This round table event promises to be a once-off memorable experience for those who attend.
Guest artists from across our festival community will propose topics for discussion and introduce dynamic perspectives inspired by their work, their view on society, their place in the world and together we will explore how our festival community can work together to build the future we wish for.
Artists include – Gaylene Gould, Dee Maher, Beki Bateson, Iarlaith Ni Fheorais, Osaro Azams and many more…
* Live Collision’s festival community – a community of people made up of audience, artists, stakeholders and the wider public who find respite and pleasure in coming together in the space Live Collision creates
“I’ve always enjoyed smudging the lines between a variety of creative disciplines and recently this has meant exploring how I can tell stories and elevate experiences through a thoughtful consideration of food and nutrition. I’ve carefully chosen the ingredients to ensure each mouthful is packed with the nutrients needed to keep our participants strong for the task! I hope these highly considered morsels provide food for thought on many different levels.”
— Dee Maher
Get the Juices Flowing
A welcome drink – a nourishing super food smoothie with ingredients to stimulate creative thought and ease anxiety.
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oats / banana / hemp seeds
Humble Beginnings
An easy but elevated gentle start, a reminder to remember your roots, root to rise.
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beetroot & walnut muhammara topped with roasted roots
Food for Thought
Some more foods of the future, this time it’s a little more challenging.
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seaweed salad with pickled / wood ear mushrooms / black rice
Ferment on it
Let it settle and give it time.
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nuts / cheeses / kimchi
Sweet Takeaways
Carrageen moss pannacotta
Agar Agar Jelly
Bliss balls
“The festival’s central aim was, and still is, to create a hub for conversation about contemporary culture and the creative and lived identities that expand boundaries. Now seems like a fitting time to gather the artists, audiences and communities that Live Collision has nurtured and to imagine the future together.”
— Gaylene Gould
Vitoria : Buraco
by Ebun Sodipo
A work in progress sharing of a newly commissioned theatre performance
Friday 08th at 7pm
A theatrical performance by Ebun Sodipo, Vitoria : Buraco will focus on Vitoria, an enslaved African trans woman living in Lisbon in the 17th century.
Vitoria is the first step in an ongoing research and practice honouring the life of Vitoria. The premiere of this work will take place at Live Collision International Festival 2024 supported by the Commission Award from Arts Council Ireland with additional support from Carlow Arts Festival.
Vitoria was a healer and sex worker living in Lisbon’s waterfront, who attracted the attention of the Portuguese Inquisition, who sentenced her to perpetual imprisonment as a rower on the King of Portugal’s galleys. She was from Benin in modern-day Nigeria, stating in her trial that women where she was from had bodies like her, gesturing to an alternative gender system, and way of relating to the body.
Developed using the transcripts from her trial, and scholarship on her life, the performance centres on Sodipo’s relationship to this archive and what it means to find Vitoria. Taking place between Benin, Lisbon, the artist’s bath, dream space and the hole in the sky, the story of Vitoria will be told in a non-linear narrative using monologue, movement and sound. The premiere will take place in 2024 in Dublin as part of Live Collision International Festival, Vitoria is the first step in an ongoing research and practice honouring the life of Vitoria.
Access: This performance will be live captioned
NU ROOTS
by Fried Plantains Collective
An amber-coloured evening of intimate conversations, poetry and arcane live music to ease us into the coming winter months
Saturday 09th at 8pm – till late
Fried Plantains Collective’s NU ROOTS invites the artists Sha Eirah of ‘Passports: A Conversation’ and Tino, creator of Ireland’s first Black Queer Ball for an informal chat on the themes of metamorphosis surrounding one’s identity as an artist and cultural events organiser.
7of9 (Osaro & Coolgirl) is back with their liquid-lore beats alongside mystery artists while DJ Kwoo of The Western Girls will conclude the evening with an array of sonic sounds.
Join us for a bop, a beat and the chats!
LAKE BURST
by Maïa Nunes
A work in progress of a newly commissioned site-specific performance artwork in the form of a short film
Saturday 09th at 6.30pm
Extract a new site-specific performance artwork in the form of a short film.
This experimental work reinterprets “A River Claiming It’s Due” (an Irish folklore tale of a lake calling for the inevitable death of its next victim) as a story of inner conflict and spiritual rebirth.
Original soundscape, costume and movement are woven together in a transformational journey of spirit and flesh, seduction and illusion, summoning and willpower, resistance and surrender.