Rory Mullen was born in Dublin in 1989 and raised by Marie and Bill. They have completed a B.A in Fine Art at Crawford College of Art and Design Co. Cork in 2012, and then an M.A. in Contemporary Fine Art at The University of Salford in 2016. Their work varies from video making, set and costume design, to writing and performance. They have recently created sets for London Fashion Week, performed at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and exhibited as part of The London Design Biennale held at Somerset House London.

Bettina Wenzel (Cologne, Germany)

Bettina Wenzel composes and develops complex vocal pieces and intermedia performances, exploring the broad range of vocal possibilities, the complexity of frequencies and resonances which can be developed through the human voice. 

www.wenzelvoice.de

Dominic Thorpe is an Irish visual artist who works primarily through performance art in a range of processes and contexts. He also works with drawing, video, photography, installation, collaborative and relational based processes. Much of his recent work addresses contemporary and historical human rights and institutional abuses and he is currently receiving a Vice-Chancellors Scholarship at the University of Ulster to undertake a practice based PhD researching performance art and representations of perpetrators.

Thorpe has shown and performed work extensively in Ireland and internationally including at the Bangkok Cultural Centre, Performance Space UK, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Galway Arts Centre, SASA Gallery Adelaide and Mobius Boston. He has completed a number of residencies, including at the Nordic Arts Centre, Fire Station Artist Studios Dublin and was the first artist in resident in humanities at University College Dublin. He has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, CREATE and Kildare County Council. Throughout his practice he has engaged with artist run initiatives as well as inclusion and education based projects and is currently on the board of directors of Arts and Disability Ireland.  He has work in a number of public collections, including the collection of the Arts Council of Ireland.

www.dominicthorpe.net

Marie Ouazzani & Nicolas Carrier (Paris, France)

Attentive to the details and resources that surround us, Marie Ouazzani & Nicolas Carrier work in a light and non-invasive way. Context and daily life inspires them in inventing climate fictions. They are developed as videos, collages, installations and infusions that confront environment and urbanisation.

(The installation at Catalyst Arts will run until Oct 3rd)

https://ouazzanicarrier.com

Starting and ending at Catalyst Arts.

Bbeyond (Belfast)

Bbeyond is committed to promoting the practice of performance art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. They facilitate modes of active private/public participation, allowing people from all sectors of society to experience and enjoy performance art directly. Bbeyond host artists of international reputation and encourage newer artists to experience performance art practices for themselves.

Participating in FIX19: Sandra Corrigan Breathnach, Christof Gillen, Bernadette Hopkins, Elaine McGinn, Niamh Meehan, James King, Brian Patterson

http://bbeyond.live

Evamaria Schaller (Cologne, Germany)

Evamaria’s works include performative, cinematic and installation aspects, are mostly site-specific. Everyday actions but also absurdities, transformations and decontextualizations of material and objects are in the foreground of her work. She understands her body as a unit of measurement and material for time-based sculptures.

www.efeumaria.com

FIX starts 2019 with a special programme for emerging artists. Three recent graduates were selected from an open call to perform during the FIX19 opening night at Culture Night Ireland:

Brennagh Meehan (Belfast, UK): Stages
Brennagh Meehan (b.1996) is a visual artist, a recent graduate from Belfast School of Art that studied Fine Art, Sculpture. A multidisciplinary artist that uses performance, sculpture, poetry and sound within her current creative practise.
www.brennaghmeehan.com

Lee Hamill (Co. Meath, Ireland): Solutions for the Border
Lee Hamill’s performance ‘Solutions for the Border’ explores the 1984 proposal Thatcher received to build a wall along the Irish Border and ghettoise west Belfast. Lee graduated from NCAD (Dublin) in 2019.

Aoife O'Connor (Belfast, UK): Sleep On it
Aoife O'Connor is a visual artist working in a range of medias including sculpture, drawing and performance. Her work tackles everyday dilemmas with a healthy amount of humour and childlike curiosity. She is a recent graduate from Ulster University having studied Fine Art Sculpture.
www.instagram.com/a.j_oconnor/