Lá Le Bríde: Imbolc
Resisting Reductionism: We’ll tell our own stories
Performance by Deborah Birmingham (Dalia Alnajjar, performance assistant)
This conceptual performance reclaims narratives from the distortion of reductionism, to include the emergence of other intelligences. It draws on the otherworld, temporality, connections, ecology and entanglement. Awakening primal traditions and rituals drawn from the natural world with elements of fire, water, air and earth. It weaves stories, movement, tone, sculpture, sounds and silence through the situated female body and focuses on the texture and taste of sounds, rather than the nature of its components.
Honouring St Brigid’s vision of equality and justice with ecological cloaks of learning, equality, strength, compassion, justice and peace.
Deborah Birmingham is performing with Dalia Alnajjar.
When: 6:00 pm –6:20 pm
Where: The performance begins at the Old Abbey of the Holy Cross and leads the audience on a shared journey to the Holy Well, where it comes to a close.
The concept
Deborah is a visual artist and performer whose practice centres on live, site-responsive performance and mosaic-based processes, exploring themes of materiality, presence, and transformation.
Her work often unfolds through durational and participatory elements, responding intuitively to place, audience, and moment. Through carefully composed actions and gestures, she creates contemplative experiences that invite connection, attentiveness, and a heightened awareness of space and making.
About the artist
