Flesh As Witness Performance

Flesh As Witness: Stories We're Not Supposed To Hold.

New participatory performance at Milford House, North Tipperary, 3pm Saturday 15 August 2026.

Live Art Ireland, in partnership with North Tipperary Queer Shed, presents Flesh As Witness, a new participatory performance opening to the public at 3pm on Saturday 15 August 2026 at Milford House, North Tipperary, as part of Heritage Week.

The performance is the culmination of a month-long collaborative process among seven artists, Pak Lun Fung, Sara Monteiro, Nadia Tamerji, Zoé Marzeau, Pasindu Weeramunda (contributing remotely), Jenn Ng, and Brendan Egan, based in Ireland and elsewhere, working across performance, dance, sound, and video.

Mentored by internationally renowned performance and installation artist Rubiane Maia and performer and photographer Manuel Vason, the work investigates how embodied knowledge transforms through collaborative witness, centring transnational dialogue and questioning whose stories are held, whose bodies carry memory, and how performance becomes transmission.

Taking Heritage Week as its starting point, the work turns to heritage that is at risk of being lost, overlooked, or erased, particularly queer heritage and the histories of communities marginalised by colonial legacies. Rather than treating heritage as fixed or safely preserved, the artists approach it as something contested and living, asking what is remembered, who gets to remember it, and what forms of knowledge and kinship have been pushed to the margins.

Audiences are invited to encounter a live, participatory work that resists easy categorisation, moving between intimacy and spectacle, testimony and abstraction.

Image: Diana Bamimeke & Manuel Vason, 2024.