LOVESTOCK... a one night stand of performance, sound, screening and installation art Valentine's night, Friday 14th February, 9.30pm to 11.30pm Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2

JUICIER - All artists are Hermaphrodites

Durational performance Drammen Norway

Francis Fay - le merveilleux - promo version from FRANCIS FAY on Vimeo.

Durational performance at The Back Loft, Dublin September 2013 as part pof the Dublin Live Art Festival. Documentation by Matthew Nevin.

Keep Calm and Carry On from FRANCIS FAY on Vimeo.

The Pilgrim Returns

Performance at The Market Studios open day for VISIT 2013

The Pilgrim Returns, 2013 from FRANCIS FAY on Vimeo.

article written on "The Non Zero Sum Art Games"

http://www.mart.ie/events/2013/eu/article

PANTS

The Pilgrim

The Pilgrim from FRANCIS FAY on Vimeo.

MART - The Non Zero Sum Art Games - Lisbon 2013 Video by Rui Mourão

non zero sum art games

Mimesis

Mimesis was "the primary dramatic phenomenon: projecting oneself outside oneself and then acting as though one had really entered another body, another character." Mimesis and the Aesthetic Experience Essay by R.Cronk

Ritual, Performance and Bodily Transformation

In my approach to ritual I emphasize that what takes place within ritual should not be understood as being outside time. It is perhaps a slowing down of the tempo characterizing daily life; less chaotic, more ordered and controllable where certain aspects of lived reality are scrutinized and others not. In this sense, rituals are special forms of social actions which go beyond ordinary form of communication and, with respect to ngoma ya sheitani, include an explicit focus on aesthetics and body language. What takes place inside and outside rituals are equally part of reality – it is equally real. It is in the connectedness of the two dimensions of reality that the dynamics of life worlds could be identified. If a distinction should be brought in it could be, as Bruce Kapferer insists in his more recent work (2004), that between actuality and virtuality where the ritual space produced provides a dynamic that, in Kapferers words, ‘allows for all kinds of potentialities of human experience to take shape and form’ (Ibid :47). Following from this perspective, it is the chaotic dimension of ordinary lived processes that constitutes the reality of actuality, not the virtual reality of ritual. 5Performance theorists often argue that what ritual does is communicate, and it is through this function that ritual indirectly affects social relations and perception of realities. It is, however, more appropriate to say that ritual or, also, ritualized enactment include communication. Rituals do not only express aspects of reality; through performance reality is negotiated. Rituals are not mere reflectors or representations of social life and people’s concerns rather, rituals provide a basis for dialogue as well as reflection, and therefore make possible negotiations about a common understanding of social reality. Performance and per formative acts are part of the ritual context and important in the sense that performance implies an active construction of social life and active communication and interaction between and among performers including audience. Currently, the concept, mimesis in the sense of an active representation based on a knowing subject is applied in the study of possession phenomena (Benjamin 1955; Taussig 1993) and what Judith Butler (1988) calls “performative acts”. Approaching ngoma ya sheitani as a ritual and cultural performance means that, in my view, such events should be studied exactly because these are contexts through which different dimensions of peoples’ lived reality and experience available, both to the anthropologist and to people themselves – although in different ways. Moreover, acts taking place in ritual space may either conform to or contest the expectations which are grounded in perceptions of, in the case of characteristics of humans and spirits, the physical body understood as temporarily transformable and as seat of different persona. From http://actesbranly.revues.org/449 Ritual, Performance and Bodily Transformation Kjersti Larsen

Something You Can Feel - Ritual - Dublin Live Art Festival 2012 - Images by Hazel Fitzpatrick. The piece explores bodily transformations in the context of the phenomenon of spirit possession. During the performance Fay channels, amongst others, American R&B/soul singer Millie Jackson.

This Mask...

Butch Queen, First Time in Drag. About A queer/gay arts/culture project ( ART EXHIBITION & CLUB NIGHT).... run out of Stroud Glos, EXHIBITION: 5-11TH MAY 5th May 7-8.30pm @ Badbrook Hall Site Festival Launch: An evening of performance within an exhibition of video, photography, installation and more-Peformances 7-8pm 11th May 6-9pm @ Badbrook Hall An evening of performance within an exhibition of video, photography, installation and more-Peformances 7-8pm ARTISTS: FRANCIS FAY JESS MANSEL MELANIE MENARD DZMITRY SUSLAU-'EASTERN EUROP IN DRAG' GEMMA MARMALADE CHRISTY O'DONNELL EVAN IKEFOYA PAUL HURLEY Badbrook Hall, Basement Project Space.Gloucester St, Stroud, Glos(THIS IS THE VENUE.... it is opposite Star Anise & the Painswick Inn)

Shall We Dance Performance at Block T

4.3.12

4.3.12 LIVE PERFORMANCE AT BLOCK T
The Performance Art Network presents 4.3.12; a night of live performance art on Sunday 4th March at 6-10pm in Block T, Smithfield.
La Cosa Preziosa
& Cleo McCann
Seamus A. Bradley
Alan James Burns
Mariel Carranza
Mitch Conlon
Brian Connolly
Sinead Corcoran
Craig Cox
Alan Delmar
Francis Fay
Ann Maria Healy
Tina Hopp
& Colmcille Donnelly
Smilin’ Kanker
James King
Ciara McKeon
Alastair McLennan
Boris Nieslony
Marc O’ Connor
& Mairead Hutchinson
Hugh O’ Donnell
Sinead O’ Donnell
Aine O’ Hara
Tim O’ Neill
Dominic Thorpe
Hillary Williams

Transformation

Performance has taught us an extremely important lesson: we are not straitjacketed by identity. Our repertoire of multiple identities is in fact an intrinsic part of our survival kit.
*Extracts from in Defence of Performance Art
by Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Making Do With Paper Crowns

A Collaborative Exhibition Of Artists From Four Dublin Studio Complexes














































(And so
mounting as it were by steps, let us get to heaven by a Jacob’s
ladder. For the ladder seems to me to signify in a riddle by that
vision the gradual ascent by means of virtue, by which it is possible
for us to ascend from earth to heaven, not using material steps, but
improvement and correction of manners - Saint John Chrysostom)

PANOPTICIAN - CULTURE NIGHT 2011