Live Collision, Ireland’s premiere Live Art festival, presents a curated festival programme including some of the most challenging and groundbreaking artists across contemporary culture. A succinct and deeply considered invitation to audiences to experience and engage across artworks, installations, workshops and salons to connect live performance with land, sea, environment and the intersection of class, race, equality, displacement, climate and world ecologies.
LCIF2024 welcomes internationally regarded creatives including – Malik Nashad Sharpe (aka marikiscrycrycry) comes to Ireland for the very first time with a brand new touring solo work Goner, ‘utilising the formal tools of solo authorship and the aesthetics of horror to create radical visual culture from the marginalised perspective, and to tease out and establish a Black tradition of horror for the live context’. Ebun Sodipo presents the world premiere of Vitoria : Buraco, a live theatrical performance that will focus on Vitoria, an enslaved African trans woman living in Lisbon in the 17th century; Harun Morrison proposes an Environmental Justice Question workshop, Whose fantasies are we living in?
Ireland based artists include Maia Nunes screening of LAKE BURST accompanied by a collaboration with Writer & Independent Curator Diana Bamimeke who will curate and lead a special event designed to engage audiences with the themes and resonances of the work; FATIMA is a rare and intimate live music session with Farah Elle; and Africanfuturism meets sensual pop with BLACKMAGICRAWR who promise to delve into uncharted territories alongside salons, DJ sets and a public artwork inviting audiences to ceremoniously deliver The Smiling Sea Star after The Smiling Sun back to the elements.
