Drawing inspiration from the industrialisation of survival and its legacies, rites of passage and contemporary ceremony, The Boundaries Between Us Endure sees the collaborating artists expanding new creative intersections in an exhilarating blend of music, performance, sculpture, light and sound framed within the histories of the National Sculpture Factory itself.
An Experimental music theatre piece, the work is expressed in surround sound Audio, 4-channel video installation, AV performance, Sculpture and lighting design. Live audio capture affecting parameters of generative visuals projection-mapped via 3x projectors and fed to a system of 12x LED strips via ArtNet.
Concept and Direction by Peter Power
Vision and Design by Peter Power and Sophie Gough
Performed by Aisling Ennis and Peter Power
Design Realisation led by Peter Power and Sophie Gough with David Dobz O’Brien, Dominic Fee, Sean McGuill and Don Cronin. Developed in Association with the Creative Team. Music by Peter Power. Sculpture by Sophie Gough. Video Design by David Mathúna. Lighting Design by Sarah Jane Shiels. Sound Design by Peter Power. Styling by Izabelle Balikoeva. Production Managed by David Dobz O’Brien. Line Produced by Conal O’Riain. Chief LX by Hanan Sheedy. PA Engineer and Bespoke Audio System by Vince at 5flowerpower. Marketing and Design by Stephanie Power. Video by Epic
Director of National Sculpture Factory Valerie Byrne. Acting Technical Manager Dominic Fee. Produced by the National Sculpture Factory, the Cork Midsummer Festival, and the Sparsile Collective.
Credits: Concept, Direction, Design, Music, Sound Design.
Photography by Jed Niezgoda and Marion Solheim
Generously supported by the Cork City Arts Office.
Written by Enda Walsh produced by Corcadorca, this was a site-specific theatre piece and installation that was in the de-commissioned Cork Prison. A new commission by Enda Walsh, this was the world premier of the work. Constructed with a central performance imbedded in a series of installations, this was an immersive promenade experience.
Credits: Composer/Sound Designer
Images by Enrique Carnicero
Supported by Arts Council Ireland
Inspired by raw audio recordings, this is a true story about Anna's blind Dad. Examining misplaced pity in all its guises, this is an irreverent look at what happens when a parent loses his sight while his daughter loses her mind. A story about sight-loss, family dysfunction and all the embarrassing, awkward, ridiculous ways they try to get by in a sighted world with a blind Dad and a guide dog that’s just had a stroke.
Written by Anna Sheils-McNamee, Produced by Donncha O’Dea and Co-produced with Pan Pan Theatre. Funded by The Arts Council/An Chomairle Ealaíon. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.
Winner of Best Production at Dublin Fringe 2018
Nominated for Best Production, Best Design and Best Duo at Dublin Fringe 2018
Credits: Sound Designer
Images by Ste Murray
In Clouds, a musical mediation on the felt sense of knowing and unknowing, of what we compartmentalise, and what we allow to be without boundary, and the science of Reductionism and Anti-Reductionism’s Systems Theory.
Composer and Director Peter Power joins creative forces with composer Michael Gallen, dancer/choreographer Stephanie Dufresne, contemporary choral ensemble Tonnta led by Robbie Blake, writer Sara Baume and designers Sarah Jane Shiels, David Mathúna and Izabelle Balikoeva and produced by Maura O'Keeffe and Eimear Reilly as part of Triskel Christ Church 40th Anniversary and Cork Midsummer Festival 2018.
Credits: Creator/Director/Co-Composer
Images and Video by Laura Sheeran
A work for mapped visuals, organ, church bell, voice, live electronics and tape. Commissioned as the headline act for the Cork Film Festival. Based on the idea of self-similarity, structural loops, fractals and the Golden Ratio.
Credits: Co-Creator/Co-Composer/Co-Designer
Produced by Eat My Noise and Commissioned by Cork Film Festival
Images by Jed Niezgoda and Miki Barlok
Video by Epic
Supported by Arts Council Ireland
Written by Enda Walsh and co-produced by Corcadorca and Eat My Noise, this was a site-specific theatre piece and installation that was in the fomer Cork Savings Bank. Constructed with a central performance surrounded by installations, this work was a promenade experience for the audience
Credits: Associate Director/Co-Composer/Co-Sound Designer
Images by Enrique Carnicero
Video by Max le Cain
Supported by Arts Council Ireland
A work for choir, 16.1 surround sound installation, light sculpture, choir' and visuals. Commissioned as one of the headline acts for Cork Film Festival. Based on the exploration of the experience of scale. An associated exhibition of nine images and poems was held in Filter Cork.
Credits: Co-Creator/Director/Co-Composer/Co-Designer
Produced by Eat My Noise as part of Cork Film Festival
Images by Miki Barlok
Video by Barra Vernon
Supported by Arts Council Ireland
It’s nearly 20 years since Finn left his family home in the Dublin suburbs for a chance to be the next darling on the indie circuit. But his music career has gone down the tubes, the blinding London lights have burned him out, and he’s on the ferry home with empty pockets and his guitar strap between his legs.
From the concrete jungle of the N31 to a painfully hip music festival on the white sands of the Aran Islands, The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia lovingly exposes a generation of adult children living back in the home, struggling to fit into the nuclear family ideal, and trying to make music in the face of rental crises and global catastrophe.
Following the success of Mimic (2007), Alice in Funderland (THISISPOPBABY/Abbey Theatre 2012) and Deep (2013), Ray Scannell makes his festival writing debut with this new apocalyptic black comedy with live music and original songs.
This production is funded by the Arts Council.
Credits: Additional Composition/Sound Design/Performer
Images by Colm Hogan/Laura Sheeran
Neon Western is a wild rave, a weird town, a universal story, told in a different way. It’s a story you understand, but no one can agree on. It’s an experience. It’s epic. It’s fun. It’s dirty. It’s drunk. It’s a secret party that everyone is invited to.
Credits: Creator/Composer/Sound Designer/Musical Director
Images by Marcin Lewandowski, Jed Neizgoda, Bríd Donovan and Izabela Szczutkowska
Video by Epic
Supported by Arts Council Ireland and Cork City Council
ProdiJIG: The Revolution – a ground breaking new dance show, that will redefine Irish Dance for the next generation. An original show produced by Cork Opera House, choreographed and created by Alan Kenefick and directed and co-created by acclaimed theatre director Wayne Jordan, ProdiJIG: The Revolution breaks all of the rules of what you’re supposed to see, hear and feel at an Irish Dance show.
ProdiJIG: The Revolution celebrates the spirit of creativity and freedom through themes of riot and revolution. Like many rebellions that have come before, the musicians and dancers break from the confines of tradition to present the Irish dance of a new generation. The show fuses cutting edge Irish dance with urban, hip-hop and Jazz to open the door to a new world order that is more Kanye West than Far and Away!
Credits: Creative Consultant/Musical Supervisor/Composer/Arranger/Sound Designer
Images by Miki Barlok
Video by Epic
Produced by Cork Opera House
In Design & Destroy audiences are invited to enter a 360 world created by Curator Jo Mangan alongside the artists chosen to represent some of the best of Irish Design. Lighting, Costume, Set Design and Composition are represented in an all-encompassing world co-created with RETìníZE Immersive Media Studio.
Design & Destroy explores the work and snatches of the working life of designers from very different perspectives. Viewers meet some designers in their studios, experience the work of others presented on stage, delve into 360 animations of one, and witness the destruction of the work of another.
The Virtual Reality (VR) film entitled Design & Destroy is the centrepiece of the exhibition. Directed by Jo Mangan, Associate Directed by Peter Power, filmed and edited by Jack Morrow/ RETìníZE, it includes both the process and the finished work of the selected artists, experienced through Oculus Go headsets.
Curated by Jo Mangan. Produced by Tríona Ní Dhuibhir. Directed by Jo Mangan. Associateed Directed by Peter Power. Filmed and edited by Jack Morrow/ RETìníZE. Designers: Ciarán Bagnall, John Comiskey, Katie Davenport, Catherine Fay, Peter Power, Niall Rea and Sarah Jane Shiels.
Credits: Associate Director, Designer
Funded by Culture Ireland and supported by The Arts Council . Peter’s involvement supported by Cork City Council Bursary
A work for symphony orchestra, choir, ensemble and electronics. Commissioned as one of the headline acts for Sounds from a Safe Harbour. Based on the first book of the Aeneid, around the storm that destroys the boat of Aeneas. A programatic piece, the story followed various stages of the journey in music.
Credits: Concept/Composer/Director/Musical Director/Co-designer
Produced by Eat My Noise and Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival
Images by Enrique Carnicero and Andrew Duffy
Video by Enrique Carnicero
Supported by Cork City Arts
Far Out Dust is Talos’ wide-screen sophomore album effort: written in New York City, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Cork, and Reykjavik, the album features a host of well-known international producers, aiding and abetting the Corkman Eoin French in creating his cinematic sonic landscape.
Credit: Co-writer on The Flood and In the Fold
Released by BMG
A salvaging, a repurposing, a remembering or a reimagining. Following the cancellation of Clouds and Boulders, his ambitious, large-scale, concert-inspired work with original music by Eoin French, Ross Dowling and Peter Power, Luke Murphy – the work’s choreographer, director and sole performer – now acts as witness and survivor in a living archive of the unrealised work. Luke will take up a three-day residency at the Butler Gallery to present an installation performance, mapping, examining and rediscovering the planned, developed but unfinished material for the original show.
Mapping Terrain offers audiences a voyeuristic window into the process of conceiving, developing and dismantling a project. When the pieces are torn apart what remains? What lingers? And how do you respond? Luke invites an intimate audience in to observe the process of repurposing and re-embodying.
Clouds and Boulders was originally conceived as a large scale, concert inspired show for festivals; a show to be presented outdoors as the sun was setting and that would bring the audience on stage with the performers at the end for a joyful celebration of dance and music. Restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic saw Luke and his team unable to complete or perform the show as planned. We are however delighted and grateful that Olga Barry and the team at Kilkenny Arts Festival have created the opportunity for us to salvage, repurpose and reimagine some of the original material for the intimate setting of the Digital Gallery in the Butler Gallery.
Choreographed and Directed by Luke Murphy. Performed by Luke Murphy. Music Composed by Aelita-9 (Eoin French, Peter Power, Ross Dowling). Sound Design by Peter Power. Video Design by Gareth Gowran. Produced by Gwen Van Spÿk. Production Management by Aidan Wallace for Kilkenny Arts Festival. Stage Management by Darach O’Ruairc for Kilkenny Arts Festival
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Kilkenny Arts Festival.
Credits: Co-Composer, Sound Designer
Images by John D Kelly
If aerial is the dance of industrial technology, what will the dance of biotechnology be? Sorry Gold is a new work that reinvigorates performance as a living and speculative environmental form, counter to a culture of repetition and resurrection, holding fast to an idea that the future is possible, desirable and beautiful. This performance is part one of a twin-production project on the themes of civilisation and nature.
Designed in collaboration visual artist Liing Heaney Music created in collaboration with Gintas K, Michelle O'Rourke, Peter Power Choreography and performances by Emily Aoibheann, Monika Palova, Lena Selivanova, Ariadna Vendelova and Tori McGrory. Funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Dublin City Council, supported by and developed at Project Arts Centre and Creation Aerial Research & Ideas Studio, Dublin.
Credits: Sound Design, Music Collaborator
Images by Eoin Kirwan and Laura Sheeran
Performed in Sunbeam Bingo Hall, Man At The Door (Number 54) is a new dance-theatre work about meeting your other self. One theory is that if you meet your doppelgänger, only one of you will survive. Mirrors, shadows, alter egos and doubles are recurring themes, alongside the struggle and complicity with our other self. The production is performed by dancers and young boys from Firkin Crane Dance Club and set in a 1950’s style bingo hall where the audience play a real game of bingo – playing out their lives as a game.
Man At The Door (Number 54) is created by an accomplished design team and multi-award winning dance innovators Junk Ensemble, who are Cork City Dance Artists-in-Residence at Firkin Crane & Project Artists at Project Arts Centre.
Credits: Composer/Sound Designer
Images by Luca Truffarelli
Pan, God of the Wild, travels to the Ocean to dance with the pearl - a freakish hyper-object from a post-natural age.
Mother of Pearl is the second of a twin production created by pioneering artist and aerialist Emily Aoibheann. It explores themes of civilisation and nature, honouring the dismantled natural world sacrificed in the name of human progress.
This new experimental circus production sees bodies perform exceptional but abnormal gestures of human beauty and skill, transforming themselves into geological art-forms with the body becoming a landscape to be cultivated.
Evoking pantheistic and pagan ritual through playful performative gestures, Mother of Pearl is an expression of longing for wildness from within the container of human domesticity, society and civilisation.
Vision and Direction by Emily Aoibheann. Diesgned and Concept by Emily Aoibheann and Liing Heaney. Design realised with James O’Toole, Moz Art and Laura Fajardo. Music composed and created by Emily Aoibheann and performed with Ciaran Byrne and Ronan Jackson. Choreographed by Emily Aoibheann and Megan Kennedy with performers Michael Gillick, Cathi Sell and Becky Nell. Produced by Mitzi D’Alton. Funded by The Arts Council/An Chomairle Ealaíon.
Credits: Associate Director & Sound Design
Images by Emilie Pason, Eoin Kirwan and Liing Heaney
A work for pitched and unpitched percussion, projection mapping and interactive visuals. As part of Cork Midsummer. Here this work was based on the Tytler cycle, where nine piece of music and the interaction of the musicians was used to represent the onset and demise of democratic systems.
Credits: Concept/Director/Co-Composer/Co-Designer/Performer
Produced by Eat My Noise as part of Cork Midsummer Festival
Images by Miki Barlok
Video by Barra Vernon
Supported by Cork City Arts
Written by Enda Walsh and co-produced by Corcadorca and Eat My Noise, this was a site-specific theatre piece and installation that was in the functioning Graepel's Metal Factory as the headline for Kinsale Arts Festival. Constructed in episodes and designed in surround sound, this work was an immersive multi-media event.
Credits: Associate Director/Co-Composer/Co-Sound Designer
Images and Video by Enrique Carnicero
Supported by Arts Council Ireland
We all have choice. We all have autonomy. But one wrong move can shift opinion. No one wants to be on the wrong side of history. The mob are out for blood. Who’s next?
Joe was a really big deal. Before the video that turned the tide. Jack had a following too, but in a very different way. Cillian was just a kid.
Minefield digs deep into the darkness of the online world in an attempt to put a human face on anonymous hate.
Written by Clare Monnelly. Directed by Aaron Monaghan. Composer + Sound Design by Peter Power. Video design by Nathan Fernee Lighting Design by Suzie Cummins. Set Design by Naomi Faughnan. Performed by Clare Monnelly and Jamie O'Neill.
Credit: Composer/Sound Designer
Funded in production and development by Dublin City Council, axis Ballymun and the Jim McNaughton Tilestyle Bursary with additional support from the Irish Theatre Institute and the Stewart Parker Trust.
Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.
Images by Kyle Cheldon Barnett
It’s the summer of 1988 and Cork’s emigration generation are taking refuge from their troubles on the dancefloor, following the beat of a new musical movement bursting from Ireland’s first House club. Among them is Larry Lehane, a vinyl junkie who remains loyal to the music as the scene crumbles around him. In the intimate atmosphere of Cleere’s, scene of many classic nights at Kilkenny Arts Festival, extraordinary actor, writer and musician Raymond Scannell takes us on a journey through the peaks and troughs of an era. Directed by Tom Creed, Deep features footage of club nights and interviews with key figures from the scene.
Credits: Sound Design
Written and performed by Raymond Scannell
Directed by Tom Creed
Designed by Ciaran O’Melia
A song cycle for large ensemble, choir, and live electronics. 9 images based on 9 poems were exhibited alongside the show. The work is framed around the mathematical representations of spirals in nature and the mind, and the thoughts one has internally in relation to this.
Credits: Concept/Director/Libretto/Co-Composer/Co-Designer/Performer
Produced by Eat My Noise as part of Cork Midsummer Festival
Images by Miki Barlok
Video by Maurice Supple
Supported by Fund-it
Mark and Violet have run away from technology-obsessed reality to raise their future child closer to nature. No enhancements, no bionic super-limbs, no shopping for perfect embryos. They want everything, from their flesh to their love to be real. But there’s no love without fear of loss. So will you get old with me? Violet?
Override, written by Stacey Gregg (winner Irish Times Theatre Awards Best New Play 2015), examines the boundaries of our faith in science. Turned by Sophie Motley into a digital spectacle with visceral audio visual design, an unsettlingly funny, bitter love letter to the future.
Credits: Composer/Sound Designer
Produced by White Label
Supported by Arts Council Ireland and Rough Magic Theatre Company
It’s a matter of life or death.
Enter Juliet is a darkly comic tale of the abandoned mad. It is a riveting story of the starving and trapped, of power struggles, lunacy and the stories we tell ourselves to get through the day.
Trapped and long since forgotten, our group have fallen into a social order, an order that is challenged by one of their rank producing an ill-remembered, mongrel Shakespearean play. They perform and are rewarded with food from a hatch. So they perform again and again… and again… but the food doesn’t come. Still they cling to the hope that their patchwork play might save them but are so weak and addled that they can no longer even remember their real names.
Must the show really go on?
Credits: Composition/Sound Design
Images and video by Enrique Carnicero
Supported by Arts Council Ireland
Stomptown Brass, the outrageously energetic 10-piece street-funk band, and Collapsing Horse, the most exciting young theatre company in Ireland, invite you to join them as they take on an audacious task: to host a funeral for the Truth.
Witness the colourful exuberance of the Haitian Voodoo-inspired New Orleans jazz funeral as it smashes up against the mournful, solemn ceremony of Roman Catholicism. An extravagant, chaotic street party, with a dark twist.
Credit: Sound Design
Images by Ste Murray and Simon Lazewski
The short film by Dan O'Connell (Egomotion) based on the poem of the same name.
Credits: Composer/Sound Designer/Co-Foley Artist
Oíche Nollaig na mBan/Womens’ Christmas Night is an Irish language short directed and produced by Oonagh kearney. Commissioned by TG4, it was broadcast in March 2016 and recently picked up the Best Irish Short and the Audience Award at the Offline Film Festival in Birr.
Credits: Composer/Sound Designer/Post Production
Supported by TnaG
a multi-media arts installation complete with live youth performance, was designed for the Ireland Pavilion at Milan World EXPO 2015. Supported by the Irish Arts Council and Environmental Protection Agency, AiR featured at the Ireland Pavilion from August 2015 and debuted complete with live youth performance in October 2015. AiR went on to feature at the Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Centre NYC for St Patrick’s Day 2016 supported by Culture Ireland as part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. AiR lead images feature as title images for Culture Ireland’s 2016 world-wide commemorative programme ‘I am Ireland’ ‘Mise Éire’.
Credits: Composer/Sound Designer/Foley Artist/Sound Editor/Live Performance Sound Technician
It's about knowing, not knowing.
It's about knowing, not knowing.
It's about knowing, not knowing.
It's about knowing, not knowing.
A Sonnet for Dark Love is an invitation to explore identity and community. The Sonnet echoes a dead poet and a living crisis.
A dark portrait of the artist as a young man.
The Sonnet is propaganda re-imagined, a new theatrical experience, a social choreography.
The Sonnet is a protest, demanding we dream for a moment in the darkness and begin a discussion of sexuality and equality in a new way.
The production was choreographed in response to Sonetos del Amor Oscuro by Frederico Garcia Lorca drawing heavily on the body in performance and dance the performers work using Ankoku Butoh methodology and an adapted Fu Choreographic Score.
Performed by Asher O'Gorman (UK), Cathy Walsh (IRL), Jesse den Dulk (NL), Isabella Oberländer (AU).
Credits: Composer and Sound Designer
Choreography and Concept by Ruairí Donovan
developed as part of the DMP at Daghdha Dance Company
performed at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland as part of THEATREmachine vol 2.
Video Design by Jessica Kelly.
Videographer Jose Miguel J
Malachy has made a decision, perhaps for the first time in his life.
Tonight is the night.
He has six bottles of wine, a bucket of chicken and he wants to talk about it.
He really wants to talk about it.
This new play by John Patrick Higgins is poignant, confessional and desperately funny. Funny to the bone.
Credits: Composer/Sound Designer
Images and video by Matt Curry
Supported by Arts Council NI
“I want to love it again.
Love myself in it.
Have a value, not a price.
But it’s hard to love something that doesn't love itself.”
After Light: These Dark Citizens is a transdisciplinary visual art installation that unfolds across an urban landscape, presenting an intricate blend of sculpture, audio-visual elements, performance, geo-locational audio, and poetry. From the tangible installations to intangible auditory landscapes, this piece leverages the night’s anonymity to invite viewers into a realm where boundaries between the self and the urban blur.
Sculptures and installations punctuate the journey, bringing inanimate objects—traffic lights, road signs, bus stops—to life with poetic and subversive installation and language that critiques capitalism’s encroachment upon the nocturnal. By anchoring the work in specific urban locales and allowing it to evolve with the audience's physical movement, the piece disrupts traditional boundaries of gallery-based art, embedding a series of personal and mythic narratives within the fabric of the nocturnal city. The city’s architecture thus becomes both antagonist and protagonist, a liminal portal guiding viewers through a meditation on the individual within the collective, a space both haunted and hopeful, where the invisible becomes vibrantly tangible under the canopy of night.
This durational encounter turns the city into a dynamic canvas, where ephemeral art installations and geolocated generative audio experiences through headphones and freely available software engage directly with the streets, architecture, and night-time rhythms. Through walks curated to recalibrate the body’s sense of place with the architecture around it, the city’s structures seem to breathe, imposing and compassionate, embodying a cosmological weight on the audience.
The engagement with After Light oscillates between the pedestrian and the cosmic, embedding a visceral awareness of the mythological self within the concrete sprawl. The integration of Echoes’ generative audio technology allows audiences to co-create the narrative with each step, rendering the city an ephemeral archive of testimonies, memories, and songs. This framework engages the audience’s agency, inviting decisions that reveal fragmented memories of urban life, pulsating with themes of isolation, wealth disparity, motherhood, the reclamation of self and the fractured experience of night.
Credits: Concept, Direction, Text, Design, Music, Sound Design.
Commissioned by Sparsile Collective in association with National Sculpture Factory and produced by Once Off Productions, After Light: These Dark Citizens is a collaboration between multi- disciplinary artist Peter Power (CMF Artist in Residence), visual artists Lorraine Neeson and Padraic Barrett and lighting designer Stephen Dodd.
Images by Jed Niezgoda
Video by Epic
Supported by the Arts Council and Cork City Council.
Generously supported by Echoes.
