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Fearghus O’Conchuir and Dan Dubowitz have been invited to give a lecture at University Campus Suffolk about their collaboration on Tattered Outlaws of History and If the Invader Comes.

The lecture will take place at
LT1, Waterfront Building
Ipswich

22 February 2012

2.00 – 3.00pm

Following their residency together at the end of 2011, Roberta Lima is presenting a new work in collaboration with Fearghus Ó Conchúir at the Defibrillator Gallery in Chicago.

In the performance and installation ReBirth, the body is used, bruised, and scratched – yet remains strong. The dialogue it establishes points out the historical use and traces of human bodies in the process and products of architectural construction.

ReBirth
@ DEFIBRILLATOR
1136 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago

Opening Friday, February 10th, from 7PM – 9PM

On view through Saturday, February 11th

Time Out Chicago Critic’s choice

At the end of January, Fearghus goes to Shanghai to work with Xiao Ke, with whom he created and performed Dialogue.

He will then travel to Hong Kong to speak and to facilitate on the Advanced Cultural Leadership Programme organised by Hong Kong University with the Clore Leadership Programme.

He will also take part in a Public Forum organised by The British Council.

His trip to China will conclude with a choreographic workshop for students at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

Following their residency in Chicago before Christmas, Roberta Lima and Fearghus are showing a new video work, called In my skin, at The White Box Gallery in New York in January. The work will be shown to coincide with Roberta’s performance at the gallery on January 17th.

Other work produced during the residency will be exhibited in Chicago and Vienna during 2012.

With the support of an Arts Council bursary, Fearghus is currently in residency with the performance artist, Roberta Lima in the Austrian Studio in Chicago.
The pair have created performance and video work together since first meeting in Beijing in 2009.

Their work in Chicago will focus on architecture and the body.

Fearghus has been invited to attend the Capital Irish Film Festival organised by Solas Nua in Washington.

His film, Mo Mhórchoir Féin – A Prayer, will be shown in the Shorts: Dirty Dancing Programme at the Goethe Institut on Saturday 10th at 3:00pm.

His work will be screened alongside other films from RTÉ’s Dance on the Box Series, including Deependance, Her Mother’s Daughters, Admit One and Unsung

After a lot of international work, travel and communication, the Tabernacle team arrives in Barcelona to think, dance, teach and learn as part of a residency at Mercat de les Flors supported by Culture Ireland and Modul Dance.

The residency will comprise a workshop with local dancers at Mercat’s new space, El Graner and two performances of Tabernacle in the Sala MAC at Mercat on the 12th and 13th November.
For information and booking click here.

Artist Sarah Browne will be joining the dancers to produce an new artwork to accompany the performances of Tabernacle.

After Barcelona, the Tabernacle tour continues with a residency at KinoSiska in Ljubljana and a performance there on the 22nd November.

Tabernacle will also be performed at The Place’s Robin Howard Dance Theatre, London on the 29th November.

While preparations for the November tour of Tabernacle reach a pinnacle, in Beijing Traveling the Space Together, a video work created by Roberta Lima and Fearghus Ó Conchúir, has opened in the Amelie Art Gallery in Beijing’s 798 Art District. The work is part of an group show called Chuan Men 串门儿 for the next 20 artists from Austrian + 7.
The show runs until the 6th November in the Amelie Art Gallery, 798.

In December, Fearghus will continue work with Roberta in a residency in Chicago supported by The Austrian Ministry of Culture and the Arts Council of Ireland. The relationship of body, space and mediating technology will be the focus of their work.

Fearghus will be a panellist at The Arts and Civil Society Symposium, organised by Create, the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts in Ireland.
Along with the other speakers, he has been invited to reflect on the relationship of arts and civil society in a time of crisis, reimagining what cultural resistance should be in that context and how art-making remains embedded in the everyday.

For a full programme see here

Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, is hosting an exhibition of Fearghus’ film work, the first exhibition of its kind for Irish choreographer.

The exhibition, called Bodies and Buildings, gathers the low-res videophone films that have formed part of Fearghus’ research since 2006, placing the moving body in relation to urban regeneration in Dublin, Beijing, Shanghai and Liverpool. The low-res works are exhibited alongside Fearghus’ acclaimed film work for television and for the theatre.

The short dances are filmed on building sites and street corners and stake a claim for the human need to make a space for oneself in the context of rapid and not always beneficent urban change.

Dates: 5th – 17th Septmber 2011
Time: Mon to Sat, 10am – 6pm
Closed Bank Holidays
Admission: FREE