Uprooting Tallaght was the inaugural edition of the annual Performance Art Festival commissioned by Rua Red. Pauline Cummins and Lauren Kelly curated a week-long series of performances featuring artists Elvira Santamaria Torres, Day Magee, The Ljilja, Francis Fay, Michael Dignam, Sinéad O’Donnell, Paul Regan, and Frances Mezzetti.
The group of artists along with the curators themselves created a series of performances that responded to the theme of displacement and belonging with an emphasis placed on locational context. The resultant work from each artist was personal, individually telling of their own experiences with and relationship to their surroundings. This included performances taking place in Rua Red, as well as at historically significant locations across Tallaght such as Bohernabreena, St. Mary's Priory, and St. Maelruain's Monastery.