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Get matched →Becoming Tallaght Performance Art Festival will take place from 24—27 September in Rua Red and at various sites across Tallaght. This will mark the third in a series of Performance Art Festivals commissioned by Rua Red. Curated by Olivia Hassett and Paul Regan, Becoming Tallaght is an ambitious four-day Festival showcasing the work of eight performance artists, including three bespoke workshops, and culminating in an artists’ symposium. The first iteration of Xchange, an open improvised performance jam, will also form part of Becoming Tallaght, and will include performance artists from Bbeyond Belfast. The state of becoming is a transformative process, akin to live performances involving transformation through embodied action. Tallaght is also experiencing a cultural evolution, reflected in its people and urban landscape.
This performance, running from September 24-26, 2025, 12:00—17:00 at Rua Red, involves a caravan converted into two parts representing Irish and British cultures. Masuyama, a Japanese artist based in Belfast, explores the nuances of Irish and British identity through symmetrically displayed items and conversations with visitors. The work continuously evolves as the artist adds objects, refines the display, and adapts in response to dialogue. Approaching from an outsider’s perspective, Masuyama brings neutrality to the inquiry, encouraging visitors to reflect on wider society and personal histories.
Presented on September 24, 2025, 13:00—16:30 at Rua Red, this performance features Terra, an android technological diviner, mapping the heat route from an AWS data center through Tallaght’s public utility system. Her embodied actions trace this flow through footsteps and collected breaths, culminating in a Ritual of Tracing outside the South Dublin County offices. Hot Air draws attention to unacknowledged entanglements with computational infrastructures and is part of an ongoing collaboration merging science fiction, folklore, and histories of technology in Ireland.
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This site-responsive performance, on September 24, 2025, 14:00—15:30 at Rua Red, uses the grotesque as a methodology for excavation, disruption, and transformation. Set within the Losset at St. Maelruain’s Church, it stages an encounter between Tallaght-born poets Katharine Tynan and Alice Furlong. Through live action, text, and ritual, it explores entangled legacies of empire, faith, land, and gendered voice, contrasting Tynan’s Palestine: 1917 and Furlong’s The Warnings to confront ongoing histories of erasure. The Losset becomes an altar, protest, and threshold, a gesture of resistance and solidarity.
On September 25, 2025, 13:00—14:00 at The Tallaght X sculpture in Library Square, this performance explores the Old Irish roots of Tallaght, meaning “a place of burial” or “a high grave.” Its etymology, linked to death and remembrance, connects with reflections on the war in Ukraine, now in its eleventh year. This war is about loss, suffering, and scars etched into the body of a nation, memory, language, and architecture.