Live Collision

Live Collision Salon 2026: that’s a wrap on our 2026 programme 🌀✨🌞 What a week 🔆 we’re still swirling after all the special gatherings, happenings, conversations and events across the long weekend and into this week ☀️The salon exists because artists continue to imagine, challenge, gather, and create spaces for encounter. It has been a privilege to share in their creative process and to spend time together. A huge thank you to everyone who made this year’s festival possible — all our artists, collaborators, partners, supporters and funders ✨ And most importantly, every single audience member and participant who showed up, shared space with us, and brought such warmth and energy to the festival 💫 For this year’s Live Collision Salon, celebrating our 15th edition, we prioritised space for process, experimentation, connection, and the development of ambitious new work. We’re excited to see how these ideas continue to unfold towards LCIF2027... Stay tuned for what’s next 🧡 #LiveCollision #LiveArt #WeAreLiveArt 📸 Sasha

TODAY: The Live Art Island-Wide Network 🌍 Live Collision is launching a new national network connecting festivals, venues, and cultural producers across Ireland, dedicated to supporting and developing Live Art in all its experimental and interdisciplinary forms. Rooted in collaboration and shared ambition, the network will foster stronger connections, expand visibility, and help build sustainable futures for artists working beyond traditional boundaries. Let’s build something connected, ambitious, and future-facing - together. 📅 07 May 2026 at 1pm: Inaugural meeting at Project Arts Centre 📧If you’re a festival, venue, or producer interested in being part of this growing community, we’d love to hear from you. Please email [email protected] with the Subject line: Att: Live Art Island-Wide Network Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council

What a lush afternoon we spent at → The Listening Room on Sunday, Live Collision Salon at @fluxstudios 🌿 Thank you to everyone who joined us for such a special, intimate experience - a space to slow down, listen and share time with each other. Huge gratitude to our selectors for their generosity in sharing their selected tracks. We’ve been blown away by the positive feedback, and we’re excited to say we’re in the works for our next → The Listening Room:Live offering - watch this space 👀 📸 Sasha 🎶Love Is Everywhere - Phoroah Sanders selected by Ghaliah Conroy #LiveCollision #ListeningRoom #LiveArt

Big news from Live Collision — We’re delighted to share that we’ve been awarded a Commission Award from the Arts Council to support the work of Pradeep Mahadeshwar in developing TAMASHA / Out of Shadows (working title). This also marks the beginning of a week-long residency as part of Live Collision Salon 2026, where we’ll be working closely with Pradeep towards a new performance work, with a view to premiering at Live Collision 2027. After a day of rest, we’re back in the space — settling into a slower, focused week at Project Arts Centre. TAMASHA / Out of Shadows brings together a cast of myth-inspired characters to explore queer migrant life in Ireland, tracing themes of displacement, desire, stigma and belonging. Pradeep Mahadeshwar (he/they) is a Dublin-based filmmaker and visual artist from India whose work explores migration, language, queer identity, and intercultural storytelling. Working across film and performance-led visual practice, he centres the lived experiences of LGBTQIA+ people of colour in Ireland within broader transnational contexts. Since 2019, his ongoing project New Irish Queerness has examined the evolving landscape of Ireland’s multi-ethnic queer identities through experimental and performative cinema. His films employ surreal and satirical strategies to interrogate sexual racism, displacement, nostalgia for language and land left behind, gender fluidity, and belonging, creating emotionally layered cinematic spaces that challenge dominant representations. Alongside his artistic practice, Pradeep is the founder of Queer Asian Pride Ireland and the Queer Spectrum Film Festival, initiatives that expand access to cultural cinema for migrant and QPoC communities. His filmmaking combines formal experimentation with a sustained commitment to cultural equity, critical engagement, and audience development within contemporary Irish film culture. Huge thanks to our hosts Project Arts Centre, to the Arts Council for their support, and to Pradeep - we’re excited to begin this journey together. 📍Project Arts Centre 5–8 May 2026 Photo by Pradeep Mahadeshwar • Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Cou

The First Bad Man opening 📚 ✨ We’re still floating on cloud nine following the opening of THE FIRST BAD MAN, presented by @panpantheatre . Here’s a glimpse into the show featuring four readers, one novel and a story that keeps shifting the ground beneath them. Tender, unsettling and funny, Miranda July’s novel comes alive in a way that’s hard to forget. There’s one more performance tonight and tickets are selling fast - don’t miss it. 📍 Flux Studios 📆 Final performance tonight 🎟️ Get tickets now at the link in bio 📸 Alexandra Ni Laoghaire •⁠ ⁠Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council

Plans for this afternoon? Join us for LISTENING PARTY, a melange of music, soft gathering and BYOB. We invite you on your May Bank Holiday Sunday to settle in, stretch out and stay a while. In the rush of everything else, this is your invitation to slow it down - to listen, to linger and to let the afternoon unfold. Guest DJ Rhyzine guides the session - one of Dublin’s most exciting voices behind the decks and co-founder of HONEYPOT - bringing a deep, carefully held sonic tones. See you soon ✨ 📆 03 May 2026 🕣 4pm – 6pm 📍 Flux 🎟️ Free / walk-up. Drop in. Stay as long as you like. 🍸 BYOB

The BIG reveal - Toby Hatchett sound system for your listening pleasure → The Listening Room: Live Sunday 03 May 2-4pm 📍FLUX 📆 03 May 2026 🎟️ link bio - Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council

After successful runs in New York, Calgary, London and Melbourne, The First Bad Man returns to Dublin for a limited run as part of Live Collision Salon. A live performance based on a reading of THE FIRST BAD MAN, a novel by Miranda July. The characters have recently joined a book club. This performance recounts the book club members’ encounter with the characters of Miranda July’s novel. Reviewed by The Observer as: ‘Heartbreakingly sad, thoughtful, disgusting and hilarious’. Presented by Pan Pan Theatre. Limited Run - Don’t Miss - Go to livecollision.com to find out more and book tickets. Link in bio Saturday, 02nd May at 6pm at Flux Studios on Chatham Row, Dublin 2. Tickets: €22 concession & you receive a copy of the book on arrival. SUPPORTED BY ARTS COUNCIL — DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL Suitable for ages 16+. This performance includes depictions of violence and sexual content. For further information about content warnings see the website.

Live Collision Salon 2026: Day One ✅ From the opening moments of LUNA with @salstapleton to our first performance of The First Bad Man with @panpantheatre , it’s been an incredible start to the festival. Big thank you to everyone that joined us 🌟 We’re just getting started - we’ve lots more to come at this year’s Live Collision Salon, featuring: 📚 The First Bad Man (2 + 3 May) 💋 Lady Marmalade (2 May) 👅 tasteinyourmouth Workshop (2 May) 🎧 Listening Room: Live & Listening Party (3 May) 🎨 Artist Residencies 📍 Dublin City Centre 📆 01 to 03 May 2026 🛸 Explore the full programme at the link bio •⁠ ⁠Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council #LiveCollision #LiveArt #DublinArts

🔷 LIVE COLLISION SALON 2026 IS OPEN 🔷 Today marks the beginning of the 15th edition of Live Collision, Dublin’s leading Live Art festival, and this year, we’re doing things differently. Introducing the Live Collision Salon: a space for ambitious ideas, works in progress and artists pushing beyond the expected. This is Live Art up close - immersive and experimental. Across Dublin city centre, we’re opening the door to process, risk and unfolding ideas. Join us as it begins. ✨ LUNA (1 May) ✨ First Bad Man running across the weekend @panpantheatre ✨ Lady Marmalade (2 May) ✨ Listening Rooms: Live (3 May) ✨ Listening Party (3 May) ✨ Artist Residencies throughout 📍 Dublin City Centre 📆 01 to 03 May 2026 🛸 Explore the full programme at the link bio •⁠ ⁠Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council •⁠ ⁠Thank you to @flux_dublin , @dublindigitalradio , @projectartscentre , @dublinfringefest & @dlr.lexicon for their continued support #LiveCollision #LiveArt #DublinArts

THE LISTENING ROOM LIVE: YOUR LINE UP REVEALED 💿 Drawing from traditions of deep listening - from the intimacy of Tokyo’s jazz kissas to the spatial sensitivity of contemporary listening rooms - this is an environment tuned for attention. A guest DJ anchors the session, joined by six invited selectors working across live art, music, and digital practices. Together, they shape an evolving sonic landscape: tracks placed with intention, transitions held open, textures allowed to resonate and unfold. Listeners are invited to sit with duration, to attune to subtle shifts in tone, frequency, and feeling. This marks a move away from passive listening towards a shared, embodied experience - a temporary commons where sound becomes a medium for relation, reflection, and encounter. 🎛️ Our guest DJ is JWY taking us through the afternoon and co-curating the arrangements of artist choices. Selectors include: ⚡️ Kate Butler ⚡️ Ghaliah Conroy ⚡️ Dafe Pessu Orugbo ⚡️ Rory Sweeney ⚡️ Reeta Cherie ⚡️ Robyn Byrne ⚡️ Ayesha Syeddah ⚡️ Zainab Boladale ⚡️ Semi CBB 📆 03 May 2026 ⏰ 2pm - 4pm 📍 Flux 🎟️ Link in bio •⁠ ⁠Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council

THE FIRST BAD MAN 📚 One book read again and again. What starts to shift? This live performance traces four readers as they return to Miranda July’s The First Bad Man over the course of a year. The lines between reader and character begin to blur, and the act of reading becomes something far more unpredictable. Following runs in New York, Calgary, London, and Melbourne, The First Bad Man returns to Dublin for a limited run as part of Live Collision Salon. Presented by Pan Pan. 📍 Flux Studios 📆 01 to 03 May 2026 🎟️ Get tickets now at the link in bio - Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council