The Here and Now Performance Art Festival 2025, organized by P(art)y Here and Now, start on 13 September  at the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon with performance art workshop led by Rachel Macmanus and Slavek Kwi at10 am. This will be followed by solo performances by EL Putnam, Olivia, Hassett, Joseph Hendel, and Aoibhinn O' Dea at 2 pm. The day will end with the participatory live group performances P(art)y Here and Now at 5 pm

Enter into a queered neurodivergent counterallegory of Plato’s Cave. In the wake of fascism, how do we discern fact from fiction? What is real, surreal or… the hyperreal? This multimedia installation is a rabbit hole of an experiment over time; i.e. Plato’s Cave + sci fi + Joann’s Fabrics.

The Dance Show by Audrey MacLean Performance Projects, investigates how dance is defined, challenges our notion of what dance should look like, and aims to create a shared experience between the audience and performers.

The Irish Contemporaries series has become an essential platform for showcasing the breadth and diversity of contemporary Irish visual art in Los Angeles. By presenting work in Los Angeles—one of the world’s most influential art capitals—the exhibition creates opportunities for Irish artists to engage with new audiences, gain international recognition, and contribute to a wider cultural dialogue with local artists. Each year, The Irish Contemporaries fosters cross-cultural exchange, amplifying the voices of artists from Los Angeles, Ireland and the Irish diaspora.

Data Fluencies: Rivulets features the work of six contemporary artists, alongside experimental research supported by the Mellon Foundation-funded Data Fluencies Project (based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University). The exhibition aims to provide open public engagement with the research outputs emerging from the larger project and place them next to cutting-edge and critical work of artists examining the same themes and ideas. Together, the artists and researchers featured here offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.

Date: Saturday May 18 to Sunday May 19, 2024
Location: Flagmount Wild Garden, Cahermurphy, Flagmount, Co. Clare, Ireland

3:30 to 4:30 pm: a workshop facilitated by Slavek Kwi exploring listening, abstraction and non verbal communication

5 to 6 pm: p(art)y Here and Now, from 5-6pm. A participatory group@live performance art event open to all to@attend and take part in with special guests EL Putnam and David Stalling

Starting at 8 pm: An invitation to ‘Listening and Dreaming Journey across Dusk to Dawn’ a night long, concert like event with live constructions from artists Slavek Kwi and David stalling.

​​Curated by curated by Yi Cynthia Chen, Willful Dialects considers spoken, visual, and felt languages and dialects through the lens of a few Asian-American and Asian Diaspora artists working in and around Boston.An anti-survey, this moment in time intends to refuse a monolithic descriptor of what it means to be Asian in America today. The term “Asian-American” itself was coined in 1968 by Bay Area students and activists in part to foster camaraderie between ethnicities and reject the derogatory term “Oriental.” This concept of the Oriental as a fantasy constructed to maintain power dynamics was explored deeply in Edward Said’s seminal 1978 text Orientalism. Said noted that Orientalism is “willed human work.” Edward Said was a Palestinian-American writer whose work makes up some of the foundational texts of current Asian-American studies.In nonfiction book Willful Subjects, author Sara Ahmed also considers this willfulness, and how instead of being a locale for penalization, difference can be a source of resilience.

The ‘On Practice’ workshop is designed as an in-depth examination of your performance practice. We will consider what drives us to make the work that we make, how we approach developing it, and what methods we use for evaluating the success of the work.

Data Fluencies: Rivulets features the work of six contemporary artists, alongside experimental research supported by the Mellon Foundation-funded Data Fluencies Project (based out of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University). The exhibition aims to provide open public engagement with the research outputs emerging from the larger project and place them next to cutting-edge and critical work of artists examining the same themes and ideas. Together, the artists and researchers featured here offer us ways to (re)consider our relationships with the data that drives our everyday lives—and perhaps find new routes to agency once we are able to do so.

Entangle explores the unavoidable interweaving of the literal, virtual, technological, and emotional threads that bind and define us. Participating artists Joetta Maue, Destiny Palmer, Loretta Park, EL Putnam, Alicia Renadette, and Amy Wynne explore how we are inextricably linked to each other and to this planet. The artists’ work reveals a web of connections formed by ideas, ways of thinking, relationships, memories, and shared experiences. The work in the exhibition is at once aesthetic, philosophical, and ideological, examining the themes of connection and entanglement through both material and metaphorical means.

Joanna Tam's temporary public art project, Imagine Safety, will be featured in Celebrations of Perseverance: Public Art in Chinatown, 2024-2025 curated by Lani Asunción. This exhibition showcases temporary public art and performance place-based projects created as part of the 2024-2025 Un-monument initiative. These public art projects create space for joy and community celebration of cultural identity, through uplifting Chinatown as a neighborhood, cultural hub, and monument within the city of Boston.  

Marilyn Arsem will be in residency at Glasshouse Project from November 10-17, engaged in research for upcoming performances. Open house on November 16, 2024 and screening and discussion on November 11, 2024. Links to both events are in the calendar listing.

How could local conditions and beliefs play into the technology we make and use? How could a diversification of technologies dislodge the monopoly of big tech and their associated sociotechnical imaginaries? Planetary Thinking addresses a widespread condition of disjointedness after the project of globalisation by producing hybrid cosmologies in times of ecological, economic, and political uncertainty.

The Dance Show is an evening-length performance by Audrey MacLean Performance Projects investigating what is dance and who decides.

The Dance Show by Audrey MacLean Performance Projects, investigates how dance is defined, challenges our notion of what dance should look like, and aims to create a shared experience between the audience and performers.

Under the Feet of Shadows is a multimedia artwork developed by EL Putnam and Mike McCormack that creatively explores human-technological relations, speculating other futures in these times of extreme change and crisis. It tells a fictional origin myth of a data center in Kilalla, Ireland, where the cyborg Terra is called upon to negotiate between the spiritus of technology, the environment, and human society as an entangled ecology. The work merges science fiction with folklore, imagined and actual mythologies with histories of technology in Ireland.