Author Archives: Fearghus
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February 5, 2018I was in Paris at the beginning of December thanks to a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais and at La Briqueterie, the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique du Val de Marne. Every year, the CCI supports Irish artists with residency time (and in the case of visual artists, studio space) in its beautiful premises in the centre of Paris, behind the Panthéon and in the heart of the Sorbonne University quarter. For me, after The Casement Project and the submission of my PhD, I knew I would value some time to begin the process of discovering what route to follow next in my work. So I was delighted to have been awarded a CCI residency to start that process. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentA gift: Tanztendenz’s 5th International Choreographers’ Atelier
December 2, 2017One of Tanztendenz’s projects is a workshop for choreographers from Germany and abroad. The artists are hosted for a week and stimulated with a ‘mix of practical exercises, shared excursions and public lectures’. Most daringly, there is no pressure for any particular outcome from this gathering and stimulation of choreographers. It’s a gift. read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentBrave Interdependence/Idirspleáchas Cróga – a talk for Aonarach le Chéile Festival, Dingle
November 9, 2017I want to propose an alternative way of thinking about artists as part of the wider public. The model I have in mind is the brilliant sean nós singer in a community. Everyone has a song, and in group gatherings it’s great to hear everyone’s song, but we know there are some people with a particular ability and gift in singing. And when they sing, they sing for the whole group. Their distinctiveness does not put them outside the group. Nor do they need to diminish their distinctiveness to be connected. If any of you have seen the people ag windáil (literally ‘winding’ the singer by holding their hand and rotating the lower arm from the elbow), connecting physically and encouragingly with the singer, it’s clear that the exceptional gift can be linked and channelled viscerally into, and supported by, a community. That’s the kind of artist I’d like to be in relation to communities that welcome me read more…
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentThe Galas Nomination
October 13, 2017It was very nice to have I’m Roger Casement included in the long-list for the Film and TV Award in The Galas. The Galas honour LGBT+ people and organisations for their contributions to Irish society. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentMapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound Symposium
August 31, 2017Here’s a video of my talk at the Mapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound Symposium last October about The Casement Project as a choreography of visibility. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentCommunications, Reach and Impact Report: The Casement Project
August 2, 2017Thanks to the brilliant Annette Nugent and Kate O’Sullivan, we’ve been able to put together this report that tracks some of the way that communications worked for The Casement Project, how we did it and who we reached. I’m hoping that there’s useful information in this for many artists, funders, commissioners and programmers, regardless of what scale we’re working on. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentComing full circle
May 14, 2017I’ve been trying to track down the actor who voiced the roll call of death that we used in the sound design for Butterflies and Bones and for I’m Roger Casement. The script is no help since it lists all of the actors without allocating their roles. David Rudkin couldn’t recall either which of the actors it might have been. But I remembered that the script from the recording was in Rudkin’s archive at the British Library and I hoped it might have some clues about who voiced which part read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentCreative Bodies: Next Moves – my speech for 2023:Future Retrospectives
April 28, 2017So in the spirit of Future Retrospection, I want to imagine a 2023 in which we will have commemorated the independence of the Irish national body by celebrating the confident freedom of a diversity of Irish bodies, autonomous but interdependent, recognising that individual flourishing depends on the flourishing of many others. read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentA response from Quarto Collective to Butterflies and Bones at The Mac
March 26, 2017“Fearghus spoke eloquently about the role of empathy in Butterflies and Bones. It is work that aims to fragment our assumptions of who belongs and who does not, who is inside and who is outside. The dancers’ bodies are interactive and interdependent throughout, even when in seeming conflict. Amid public arguments about who belongs in the United Kingdom and who does not, it is a timely message.” read more…
Posted in Uncategorised | Leave a commentA response from Quarto Collective to Butterflies and Bones at The Mac
March 26, 2017From Quarto Collective Blog: Recently I went to Butterflies and Bones, performed at the MAC as part of The Casement Project, and the Belfast International Arts Festival. The piece was choreographed by Fearghus Ó Conchúir, together with his team of … read more…
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