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Soso Ní Cheallaigh | “De mo neamhthoil a thánaig an crith orm” “How does it feel to never truly be still?”
An audio description by Soso Ní Cheallaigh “De mo neamhthoil a thánaig an crith orm” “How does it feel to never truly be still?” Part of Bounce Festival 2024 at CCA Derry~Londonderry on 5 October 2024 where Soso performed in CCA's Project Space amidst their installation. Responding to the essential tremor and involuntary contractions that convulse through their own body, this work is part of Soso Ní Cheallaigh’s ongoing study on the chaos and disorder of their rare nervous system conditions. This new site specific work combines video installation with live intervention to explore self-documentation, bodily isolation, and our inherent human need to understand ourselves. De mo neamhthoil was supported in part by the European Dancehouse Network Carte Blanche Travel Award. Proud part of the Bounce Arts Festival 2024. About Soso Ní Cheallaigh Soso Ní Cheallaigh (they/them) is a disability-led multidisciplinary maker from Derry. Their work spans poetry, essay, theatre, visual art, and film through both the English and Irish language. Recent credits include Burkitt (TG4/Little Ease Films), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Theatre), and SHIFT (DU Dance & Southpaw Dance Company). A graduate of Seamus Heaney Centre and Inclusive Dance Cork, Soso was a previous recipient of University of Atypical’s DDASF award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland funding, and a Theatre and Dance NI INVEST artist for 2024.ohbysoso.com About Bounce Festival Bounce Arts Festival 4–6 October 2024 - This is a festival created by and for disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent people through the University of Atypical. This year it is taking place over three days in Belfast, Derry~Londonderry and Limavady. Transcending barriers, celebrating ability and disability; disturbing myths and illuminating the creative practice of disabled artists on a professional platform: Bounce is our showcase where every aspect of diverse identity is celebrated. All are welcome.universityofatypical.org/bounce Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council, University of ATypical, European Dancehouse Network Carte Blanche Travel Award.
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Niamh Seana Meehan | Dreamers
Niamh Seana Meehan Dreamers, 2024 Audio Recording, 8 mins 10 sec Part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2024 and National Drawing Day 2024. This year CCA invites artist Niamh Seana Meehan to design an activity for NIMHAF 10–19 May 2024 and National Drawing Day 18 May 2024. In Dreamers Niamh invites you to listen, float, and linger with an audio coastal walk. Walking along edges of liquid space this audio will explore moments to find stillness, to feel how our skin touches seawater and how we can reimagine the desire path. A desire path is a path created by animal traffic, or a path taken as a short-cut. For this coastal walk the desire path will present listeners with the space to reimagine what they desire to find on their own coastal path. Listen to the audio, pausing to draw or write anything that comes to mind. Alternatively you can listen to the full audio, then begin to draw what you feel, think or imagined as you were listening. You are also welcome to sit comfortably and listen to the audio. Suggested materials are pens, pencils, colouring pencils or whatever you have to hand or prefer to draw with. You can collect materials from CCA, 10-12 Artillery Street, Derry~Londonderry, BT48 6RG from 10 May 2024. You can download or listen online to this specially created audio with intentional pauses to give you space to reflect, draw or write. Headphones are preferred. You can tag your drawings with @CCADLD, @nimhaf, #NationalDrawingDay Read more about the work at: ccadld.org/public-programme/dreamers-an-activity-for-nimhaf-and-national-drawing-day And visit the artist's instagram at: @niamhseanameehan This project was supported by: CCA Derry~Londonderry Arts Council England Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council Northern Ireland Mental Health Festival
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CCA Introducing: R Talitha Samuel | Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard'
CCA Introducing continues with a takeover by R Talitha Samuel, an independent cultural producer and editor based in New Delhi, India. R's takeover, entitled Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard', takes place on CCA's Instagram and Spotify on Sunday 24 March 2024. Below, you can find a description of the takeover: 'I had a totally different plan in mind for this visual and audio project when I initially started out. However, just before I was all set to hit record, my grandfather got very sick and passed away. This was during the month of December 2023, and it naturally changed the course of not only my life and understanding of myself but also of this work. I wanted to explore why I do what I do in terms of my approach to audio as a medium, mediated through the literal voices of members of my community and my family. Now, my takeover, Samuel, meaning 'God Has Heard', composed of audio recordings, old Tamil hymns and voice notes will dive into the warp and weft of grief, collective prayer, sound as infrastructure, recording as witness and what it means to be a man.' CCA Introducing is made possible thanks to Art Fund, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Derry City & Strabane District Council.
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CCA Derry~Londonderry | Round Table #10 | Peter Glasgow, Susan Hughes, Ryan Vail
Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. Sound and Vision connects this episode's speakers: Peter Glasgow, Susan Hughes and Ryan Vail. Recorded during Susan Hughes' solo show, 'Stones From a Gentle Place' at CCA, each artists' practice spans music and visual art. Susan is a fiddle player using music to barter for stories, Peter experiments with slide guitar and participated in CCA's Digital Residency 'The Honkey Tonks and Me⁠' in Autumn 2023, and Ryan Vail won the NI Music Award for Best Album with Elma Orkestra in 2019 as well as working with Visual Spectrum Studios creating audio-visual installations. You can find out more about CCA at ⁠⁠CCADLD.org⁠⁠. Peter Glasgow peterglasgow.co.uk | @peterglasgow Susan Hughes cargocollective.com/susanhughesartist | @susandorothyhughes Ryan Vail @ryanvail | @visualspectrumstudio With thanks to: CCA Derry~Londonderry Art Fund Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council
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CCA Derry~Londonderry | Round Table #9 | Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh, Claire Whelan, Laura Wilson,
Welcome to our latest Round Table from CCA Derry~Londonderry. We bring together artists to talk about their work and experiences. Episode 9 welcomes SEAMS artist Laura Wilson who talks with writer Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh and weaver Claire Whelan about linen, family, history, motherhood, nature and the colour indigo amongst other topics. You can find out more about SEAMS at ⁠CCADLD.org⁠. Laura Wilson laurawilson.me | @wilsonlaurawilson Kerrí Ní Dochartaigh @kerrinidochartaigh Claire Whelan @whelansweaving With thanks to: CCA Derry~Londonderry Art Fund Arts Council of Northern Ireland Derry City & Strabane District Council
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