Excursions Performance Festival, Limerick, Ireland
30 November- 3 December
Admission free to all events

Excursions is a festival of performance art for contemporary performance artists in visual art, dance and sound that will take place in Limerick City from Thursday 30th November to Sunday 3rd December.

Excursions will kick off at Daghdha Space, John’s Square on Thursday 30th November at 7pm. Limerick School of Art and Design students Karen Sheehy & Ian McInerney, Maggie Shirley, Kate Moylan, Laura Ni Ghaoithin, Bernadine Carroll and Aja Daly will be the first to perform at the festival with experimental new works. Sascha Perfect will present a new live performance Organ City, which is a recontextualization of the artist’s body work based on Deleuzes’ theory of ‘the Body without Organs’ and Zizeks’ counter debate. Dance and Media Japan present four video works by Muneteru Ujino, Takao Kawaguchi, Fuyuki Yamakawa, Refined Colors (Takayuki Fujimoto) and Yuzo Ishiyama which will run over the course of the festival. These will take place at Daghdha Space @ John’s Square starting at 7pm.

Two further events during the first day of the festival, Thursday 30th, are Mary Dempsey’s voice/audio installation What happened sited in the graveyard in John’s Square and Dante Cozzi who will engage with members of the public during the festival at various venues.

On Friday 1st of December, Mamuska Night will take place. Mamuska is an open platform for artists to experiment with new and evolving work and an occasion for the audience to socialise and be inspired. Mamuska will take place at Daghdha Space @ John’s Square starting at 8pm.
(see full programme below)

Saturday 2nd December the venue for the morning is Limerick School of Art and Design Church Gallery in Clare Street Campus and a film presentation Endurance Reels originally presented at Exit Art in New York City will be screened from 11am, tea and coffee will be served. Endurance: The Video Programme is an international survey of contemporary video and performance artists whose individual and collective works test the physical, mental and spiritual endurance of the body. Works included will be screened by Carolee Schneemann, Paul McCarthy, Gordon Matta-Clark and Orlan (Courtesy of the Video Data Bank). Following the screenings at 1.30pm Paula Fitzsimons presents target_Painting, a visceral comment on the progression of a modernist idea of the artist/painter as individual genius, through a dematerialised postmodernism.

This year the festival has four aspects to it, Student Excursions, National Excursions, Film Excursions and International Excursions. The international programme will include the Performance Artsists Nicola Davide Angerame who will present a series of Italian performance videos by Maura Biava, Motus, Francesco Arena and Corpicrudi and Eleonora Chiesa. This will be followed by a performance by Japanese artist Tatsuya Kusuhara Me, Myself and I.

Bernadette Cronin, Regina Crowley and Mick O’Shea present Cabinets of Curiosities, a trans-disciplinary performance based on a model of a conversation. This project is predicted on the notion of a journey the three artists have been undertaking together, and this performance marks phase 2 of the collaboration. The cabinet is different every time it is opened, as it is a live cabinet with an improvised sound score and a partly improvised visual score. Cabinets of Curiosities is a performance project emerging from a collaboration between sound artist Mick O’Shea and performers Regina Crowley and Bernadette Cronin and will be performed at Impact Theatre on Sunday 3rd December at 4pm.

Excursions is an annual performance festival. This year it was curated by Sheila Deegan, Pippa Little and Davide Terlingo. It is supported by The Arts Council, Limerick City Council, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Daghdha Dance Company, Impact Theatre and Limerick School of Art & Design.

For further information contact The Arts Office, Limerick City Council, Tel : 061 407421 or Limerick City Gallery of Art, Tel : 061 310633; email artgallery@limerickcity.ie or artsoffice@limerickcity.ie




Mamuska night programme
FRIDAY 1st December
programme starts around 8.30pm

APPEARENCE Physical presence (2’)
presence: Davide Terlingo

TI_SPA_CO - Work in progress (7’)
choreography: Veronica Pulga
dance: Elena Giannotti, Janyce Michellod, Veronica Pulga
music: Dhafer Youssef

HIDDEN PASSION - Dance, Poetry (10’)
performers: The love Spotters
choreography | concept: Daniel Vais
music: Noto + Sakamoto
poetry: Geraldine

SOME KIND OF PERSONAL INFORMATION PART 10 / Performance piece (7’)
performers: Mark and Kelly

NO DIRECTION - Video, dance (8'46'')
director: Keisuke Takahashi
choreographer: Mikuni Yanaihara
sound: skank
dancers: Mayu Takagi, Shigeya Yo, Yu Harada, Chika Sagawa, Rena Enatsu,Teita Iwabuchi, Mikuni Yanaihara
production: Nibroll

FROM NOW ON ALL OUR PIECES WILL BE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT... OR SEX /Dance (4’)
dance: Nick Bryson, Eleftheria Rapti

MEANING OF LIFE, DEATH AND DANCE. PART 8 /Lecture performance (10’)
text | performance: Katarina Mojzisova
guest appearance: Alissa Kleist
projection: Conor Buckley

LAND /Dance (7’)
dance | choreography: Laura Dannequin
sound: there is a number of small things /MUM

PURE WHITE /Dance (5’)
choreography: Cristina Goletti

ONGOING INSTALLATIONS / INTERVENTIONS

NO BIG DEAL
concept | choreography: Janyce Michellod
dancer: Janyce Michellod