TweetShare “More and more, it’s more, mostly, sensation. And how does that get translated?  Into any communicable format that’s viable interchange? Or relevant to anyone else. Snips sharding, pictures, scenarios, scenes, images fleeting by and flashing through altogether in an overlaid, alternating, overlapping simultaneity – like being mentally, multiple squint.”  She gestures with her eyeballs. [...]

TweetShare So an other month has whipped by….. “You young people of Ireland” The Pope when he talked years ago. Now is now and its so moved on and complicated… Last night found me performing in The Project Art Centre amongst a really mixed bag of individuals. A production called Generations. It was the final [...]

TweetShare Everything falls apart. This, I feel, is finally it. There will be no return from the skies by the birds who trundle themselves across the manicured lawns below; the stench of burnt lamb and hard carrots will no longer waver about the room; the intermittent beeps of the medical machines, and the hallow clop [...]

TweetShare My Cat Parsnips by Melissa Newell My cat parsnips has one ear I don’t know why. mommy says cos he got into a fight with a dog. daddies friends hate parsnips one time they came to our house with their dog .his name is Gobles, gobels wanted to eat parsnips but parsnips is clever [...]

TweetShareThis video, gives an insight into how there are other ways in which we can take control of our own space, place, community. That there is always the possibility of redefining, of making possible, of changing what is considered the inevitable. Of creating a new way that speaks out against the consensus, the system, the [...]

TweetShare Staring at an empty page, waiting for it to make its mind up, looking at it, full of possibilities. Could be a song, poem, story, letter, even a list of future plans and possibilities… but no, it stays there stubbornly smirking, laughing at me, blank with nothing to say. “You can’t think of anything [...]

TweetShare Rather than find a very long, dense article on social theory and post it up here in the vain attempt to initiate some kind of debate I have decided to embed an inspiring documentary on Antonio Negri instead. I hope this documentary elicits some responses and provokes and enlightens you. It is important that [...]

TweetShare They greeted each other with a handshake. The shorter of the two Frank, had an obvious tomato ketchup stain, on his not so obvious dark navy tie. Earl his new associate and heaviest of the two, said nothing about the stain .He too had his fair share of stains in the past, strawberry jelly, [...]

TweetShare My Favourite Thing by Melissa Newell age 8 and three quarters A revolver is my favourite choice of gun. it is also daddies favourite. he likes it because it has a revolving chamber which means you don’t have to reload as much. Clint Eastwood is daddy’s hero, Clint Eastwood usually plays cowboys or cops. [...]

TweetShare These written efforts make me question myself, what is Performance Art/Live art? What makes a performance valid? Is it always in the arena of visual arts or can it be totally outside both theatrical and art remit, purely private or political but only getting into the public realm by way of a left image, [...]

TweetShare “To ‘the’, or not to ‘the’?” Now that’s the interrogative to do fun by.*1 For example, how to write ‘Earth’ is a matter of how Earth is perceived, whether ‘tis deemed a proper noun as in this case referencing a She Being, or, whether, ‘the earth’ is seen as a thing. In the latter [...]

TweetShare Even now, almost two years on, I can smell the smells and hear the sounds; the hunks of emaciated fish carrion lying on steel trailers, the bursts of water from the early-morning window-cleaners, the guttural bird-song sounding as light broke through the awnings of all the city stores. And I can see the people [...]

TweetShare   From Acerbica, the world on Earth is funny, but no laughing scene.  Satyr but tries, to convey – to explain, to enter into logic the vantage, the streaming.  It is there to be seen.  (Because it is . . .)*1 Like patently, honestly, blatantly obvious, overt clues of behavioural evidence passing through repeatedly.  Not [...]

TweetShare I’ve been wanting to write something for a while now on the increasing number of 3D movies hitting our cinema screens, but found that I really needed to get my head around the 3D process and it’s advantages first. Unless you were living under a rock very far away, you could not have escaped [...]

TweetShare So I headed off to Dublin, The Glór sessions held at the International Bar, well known for hosting a whole host of well known performers in their early days. This might be a good gauge, I thought to myself. It’s always very good to perform to a room full of people you don’t know. [...]

TweetShare Parents here don’t lie to children often enough and encourage them to have unrealistic and unhealthy expectations in life, according to a Health Service Executive (HSE) report. The Lie Early Lie Often report encourages parents to wean children off trusting relationships before trust begins to develop. “Children grow up with unrealistic expectations from life [...]

TweetShare The Problem Merchant I’m the problem merchant, I buy and I sell; Any problems to me You can surely tell. Whether your wife left you, or you just can’t pay the bills, I’ll even listen, If you’re a fellow who kills. You’ll think I’m insane, With my crazy deals, But when I’m through with [...]

TweetShare We are the only boat that sets to work before the sun has come over the mountains. Only the pale grey beginnings of a day are at our backs as we slip past the white-washed walls of the harbour and the lighthouse with its sweeping light. Though the bay is pincered between two fingers [...]

TweetShare ED: This is a new series of articles designed to get you questioning, thinking and reflecting. We would really like to get a debate going so please post your comments below. Some of it is difficult – it’s a slow read. But it’s worth it. We need to start have a proper discussion. Start thinking about the [...]

I was invited to go North in February to see, be part of, help with, a performance week Sinead O’Donnell was curating with others in Belfast. There was to be a Canadian Performance artist one of whom was Paul Couillard. The various Performances, discussions, and collaborations were around the theme “Chaos” A Condition or place of great disorder and confusion and to be held/seen in Belfast’s Catalyst Art Centre, Black box, theatre space, and other Not for Profit Art Spaces.