ARTISTS
LARA GALLAGHER / SOUND AND PERFORMANCE ARTIST
Lara Gallagher is an Irish sound and multi-medium artist, designer and instrumentalist based currently in Berlin. Her practice mainly involves the creation of live electronic performances and mixed media sculptures. Her main style of work centres around free improvisation. In her use of improvisation, she attempts to use her auditory and visual processing systems to interpret and respond to her surrounding environments. She engages in the complex process of deliberate improvisation to access what may be beyond her own conscious awareness or control.
AOIFE DEMILLE / MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION AND SOUND ARTIST
Aoife DeMille is an Irish multimedia installation and sound artist currently based in Dublin. As a sound artist, Aoife explores rich and emotive imagery through vocal and sound manipulation. Overall, Aoife's work acts as facilitator for emotional introspection—sound and visual journeys that delicately suggest but never instruct, her work provides a platform for audience members to become co-creators in the experience.
PABLO AGUILAR / VISUAL ARTIST
Pablo Aguilar is a Spanish visual artist currently living in Berlin. He explores different fields within the world of image, focusing mainly on film direction, video-creation and analog photography. He feels a special interest in exploring the limbo that exists between the experimental and the narrative, the fictional and the documentary, the fantastic and the real. His main focus of research is the relationship of the human being with its physical space and context. He is currently concentrated on the distribution of his latest short film and the creation of different visual pieces using the found-footage technique.
CORMAC FITZ / SOUND AND MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
An Irish sound and multimedia artist based currently in Berlin. Fitz’s art spans from psychedelic jazz to minimalist visual art and mainly features improv-based creations. Drawing influence from the minute details in the world that often go unnoticed, he uses unusual sounds and patterns as a basis for his works, combining repetitive forms to create complex and unique sonic and visual worlds.
ALANA MCDONOUGH / VISUAL ARTIST
Alana is an Irish artist based in Dublin. She works across a variety of mediums such as painting, screen printing, video, and digital art. Working with paint recently, Alana has tried to carve out her own distinct style by parring back the drawings to simpler shapes, lines, and colour. 'My art tends to be themed on femininity and ownership of ones body, with a more humorous and lightheartedness take on it.' Currently exploring creating on different found and recycled materials.
CIARÁN DERVAN / MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
Ciarán is an Irish multimedia artist. He has a love of analog collage but experiments with paint, music and video, and utilizes coincidence and repetition in form to draw attention to aspects of perceiving that often go unnoticed. Through the novel marriage of incongruous images and sounds he aims to make the audience reflect on their own engagement with the world, highlighting how we can’t help but imbue objects with meaning and illustrating how this process alternates between deliberate effort and unconscious automaticity.
MICHAEL MCCARTAN / PERFORMER AND MUSICIAN
Michael is a performer and musician from Newry based in Dublin, Ireland. He plays the violin, piano and flute and a range of traditional Irish instruments. He is also a classically trained singer and performs regularly in Christ Church, Trinity College Dublin and St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. Michael is an avid member of the Mornington singing ensemble directed by Orla Flanagan.
ALEX KEOGAN / MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER
Alex is a musician/composer and photographer from Dublin, currently based in Berlin. Currently Alex’s music revolves around free, relaxed, and spacious compositions, created using a mixture of field recordings and primarily electronic instrumentation, that inspire feelings of calm, reflection, and release.
He became interested in analog photography during summer 2019, and his favourite things to shoot are candid portraits of friends in free, authentic settings.