Rua Red

REROOTING
TALLAGHT

PERFORMING ARTS
FESTIVAL 2024

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The Biscuit Without a Home by Venus Patel
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
A person in the audience of the performance holds a creme-filled biscuit against their chest, near their heart.
Venus, dressed as a biscuit, holds two creme-filled biscuits in her hands. She looks dramatically at one.
Venus Patel, dressed as a biscuit, cradles packages of biscuits against her cheek in the aisle of a supermarket
Venus, dressed as a biscuit, laying in the grass with her eyes closed.
  • After 15 years in hibernation, a biscuit named Creamia awakes to find the world she once knew to be over. With the closure of the Jacob’s Biscuit Factory and its over haul by an Amazon Data Centre, she has lost the life and the community she once had. Her procession through Tallaght evokes a ritualistic method of finding a way to exist within a space that has pushed her out and how to rebuild a world without the hierarchy of capitalism and hate. The performance follows her as she tries to understand the concepts of community, who deserves to exist within it, and who gets to decide that.

Luncheon in the Graveyard by Preema Nazia Andaleeb
  • The performance explores the complex nature of human actions and the evolving identity as one, using body as a metaphor. The gesture depicts the juxtaposition of two different cultures that are influenced by many narratives over the years. The amalgamation of religious discourses and historical narratives has an interesting impact on both of the cultures as a paradox. Though the graveyard is a holy and sacred place, death is constant regardless of culture, religion, and caste. We might have a concept of after death, but death is illusive, and thus, it is a concept that stands alone in isolation.

Finding Arabic in Ireland Series Tuqa Al Sarraj
  • Finding Arabic in Ireland Series is part of The Linguistic Tapestry of Ireland series, using performance art to explore the narrative of the Arabic language and its presence in the community. This series highlights Arabic’s historical and cultural contributions to Ireland, from mediaeval scholarly exchanges to the stories of modern immigrants.

Bag Lady by Áine Phillips
Two women in sunglasses sit on steps surrounded by full trash bags and black boxes.
Aine Phillips stacks boxes in a shopping cart wearing an orange poncho. Puffed up trash bags seem to float around her.
Aine Phillips and another woman are surrounded by trash bags full of balloons. They throw boxes at each other in the corner of a parking look, looking carefree.
  • In San Francisco some years ago I witnessed many thousands of homeless people in the parks trundling their personal collections of monumental receptacles. I was in awe of their sculptural and transformative presence and their unconventional kinetic ways of living. It was also devastating to see the evidence that so many have no basic shelter in this wealthy world; this is also the case in Ireland now.

    Bag Lady is an acknowledgement of displaced people everywhere, saluting the endurance, perseverance and courage in adversity it takes to live on the streets. This performance presents homelessness in a new light, as diviners proposing alternative ways of being in this world, liberated from capitalism and the behavioral codes of society

WALL.DIN WALL.DOUBT by Fergus Byrne
  • The performance responds to the site of St. Mary’s Priory and the Walled garden within, with particular attention to the Bullaun stone and Mill stone situated within Friar’s walk. will be given particular attention. Byrne repeats a text over and over as a mantra. The text itself is a collage of notes from encounters and observations in Tallaght and quotes from books. The spoken words become the soundtrack to Byrne's improvisation through action, and through the repetition of the text, Byrne aims to be able to release himself into an altered state of consciousness and behaviour.

Digging Up Nothing in Kiltalown by Deej Fabyc
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
  • They looked in the mirror and did not recognise the being looking back. They could see the eyes looked dead and full of pain. At this moment they knew the life they were living was untenable, the choices were stark, death from an overdose or ac cident, mental hospital incarceration or even jail if they continued on their current path. They found others on the journey to recovery and slowly became able to live life clean, able to handle the tides of existence without self medication with alcohol or drugs… (apart from coffee)

Where Are You Now, Oisín? by Wioletta Ratajczak
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
  • Where are you now, Oisín? is inspired by a Celtic myth telling the story of the tragic character Oisín and his return to Ireland from the Land of Youth after three hundred years. According to the Fenian cycle, the place where Oisín fell from his magic horse was located at the Glenasmole Valley. Wioletta's performance is based on research on the phenomena of 'culture shock' when moving abroad and 're-entry culture shock' experienced by many immigrants returning home after living in the other country. She intends to re-tell the story of Oisín's from the perspective of a person experiencing a subtle exclusion in both Polish and Irish cultures, in which she has been living for many years.

Ten to Pen by Alastair MacLennan
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
  • My inspiration comes from Zen practice... A crossroads indicates opposite and differing directions. In Zen practice there is no separation between a subject and an object. Zen engages holistic mind / body inter links, beyond the splits of binary, oppositional thinking. 'How' to go, to 'get' there, to BE there? One way is by meditative walking, focussing awareness on one's inbreath and outbreath, ongoingly... along the way... interfusing mind / body interlinks through focussed breathing BEYOND separatist, binary mental and physical distractions. A physical crossroads can be used in art as a metaphorical paradox beyond the literal ... revealing sameness in difference and difference in sameness. In Zen practice (and at the crossroads) each step along the way can be an arrival in its own right

Performance Art Jam
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
The Goose and the Common—Launch Event
  • The Performance Art Festival concluded with a performance jam featuring the artists who took part in Rerooting Tallaght, with the aim of creating dialogue between the artists and focusing on live action rather than rehearsed practice.

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