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
Participation in the political internship scheme by @immigrantcouncilofireland is a great experience so far. Last week we visited to Leinster House, it was more than a tour of a historic building - it was an opportunity to understand the heart of Irish democracy and parliamentary tradition.
A thanks you to our guide, David, who generously shared detailed insights into Ireland’s parliamentary process, the history of the institution, and the wider role it plays in public life. The interactive discussion and openness to questions made the experience especially valuable.
What stood out most was not just the history and learning, but also the chance to meet new people, network, and share experiences with individuals from diverse backgrounds. This thoughtfully designed political internship program offers long-term benefits for those who are not originally from Ireland but have made it their home.
Thank you Immigrant Council of Ireland for creating this opportunity and @nomadhandaa for leading us.
I am excited to work on this experimental short documentary project, “Inter // Sections”, commissioned by The Gay Health Network (GHN). This commission is funded by the Department of Children, Disability and Equality and aims to promote the visibility and inclusion of multiply marginalised LGBTQIA+ people in Ireland.
Inter // Sections
Lived Realities of LGBTQIA+ Lives Across Overlapping Margins in Ireland
Thank you @deptcde@gayhealthnetwork
Featuring
Anonymous Beautiful Soul
David Ferreira @davidferreiraalvess
Morrigan O’Malley @morrmorr92
Pradeep
Steven Peice @stevenpeice
Tinomuda Wekare @twinkofold
(Alphabetical order)
The Crew
Tranza Studios @tranzastudios
Nishaant Singh Bhinder @nishaantsingh
Paul Gleeson @paulgleeson_
Derek Byrne @derekdoesmusic
Pradeep Mahadeshwar
💚The main title and body text in the design use Arial, a standard typeface commonly seen on Irish visa documents, IRP cards, and other official immigration materials.
☀️ Live Collision Artist Residency Spotlight #1: Pradeep Mahadeshwar ☀️
We’re excited to introduce the first of our 2026 resident artists as part of the festival Salon this year: Pradeep Mahadeshwar.
As part of our core ethos, the residency programme supports artists working beyond fixed categories - creating space for process, experimentation, and ideas still in motion.
Pradeep’s piece, TAMASHA / Out of Shadows (working title), blends live performance with documentary elements, bringing together myth-inspired characters to explore queer migrant life in Ireland. Through themes of displacement, desire, stigma and belonging, the work opens up layered, urgent questions around identity and home.
Pradeep is a Dublin-based filmmaker and visual artist from India whose practice centres LGBTQIA+ people of colour within transnational contexts. Their ongoing project New Irish Queerness explores Ireland’s evolving multi-ethnic queer identities through experimental, performative cinema - using surreal and satirical approaches to challenge dominant narratives.
As part of the residency, this work will unfold alongside the festival - an invitation to witness a piece in process, where risk, inquiry, and not-yet-finished thinking are essential.
📍 Flux
📆 01-03 May 2026
- Proudly supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council
@visualpradeep
Asha Bhosle passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Countless memories of my youth flash in my mind. In my native Marathi language, people lovingly call her Asha Tai. “Tai” meaning elder sister. Her songs were among my best memories of the puberty-hitting age, giving a blurred meaning to many abstract visions of love and longing.
“Expression of love at the margin” was exactly what my younger self dreamed in her music.
Asha Tai was a rebellious female singer of her time. Hindi and Marathi film music would be incomplete without her immense contribution. She sang songs that a hypocritical, patriarchal society often labelled as “too vulgar” or “sexy,” yet she gave voice to the margins and the unspoken desires. In many ways, her work inspired many queers, people on the fringe.
From bold, rebellious cabaret songs to tender, longing ghazals, Asha Tai sang everything effortlessly. That was an era before social media and auto-tune, within a male-dominated film industry where women were often confined to being seen rather than heard. She lived such an inspiring life.
Now I am feeling old. Ha ha ❤️
“I Say a Little Prayer” is not just a love song. It’s a quiet cry from the shadows of war. 🇻🇳
Written during the Vietnam War, it captures something rarely shown, not the battlefield, but the silence back home.
A woman waking up. Going to work. Drinking coffee. And in every moment, fear.
Fear that the person she loves may never return. Time once lost will never be forgotten.
While bombs fell in Vietnam, another kind of suffering unfolded across oceans. Families waiting for letters that might never come. Lovers holding onto hope in a world shaped by war. Ordinary people paying the price for decisions made by elite white men.
This is the hidden cost of war.
Not just destruction- but uncertainty, distance, anxiety, and invisible grief.
Policies of power, especially during U.S. involvement in Vietnam, didn’t just redraw maps - they rewrote lives from both sides.
Every line of this song is a reminder:
War is not just fought by soldiers.
It is endured by the people who wait.
I am delighted to share that An Talamh Faoi Gheasa – The Enchanted Land has been selected for the Queer Vision at @prideofthedeise .
An Talamh Faoi Gheasa – The Enchanted Land is a Gaelic retelling of an ancient Indian folktale rooted in mythology. Performed by migrant artists and set against the backdrop of colonial remnants within the Irish landscape, the film explores how migration can ignite transformations of identity, including expressions of gender fluidity. Through this cross-cultural reimagining, the work proposes a vision of coexistence where non-binary duality becomes a site of possibility, harmony, and belonging.
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
@artscouncilireland@cassette.vision@subhashinigoda.dance@dbmeade.15@adam.rael@dogistruth@aislingdoyledesign@puregrand@derekdoesmusic@mollydonnery@camerakit.ie@twallace_films
REPOST • @gcnmag Did you miss the film premiere of @outofshadowsfilm during our first ever World AIDS Day Festival with @pozvibepod in Trinity College?
Here is a snapshot of that fabulous night ✨️ Photos by @babsdaly
Read more about the premiere at the link @gcnmag 🍿
I am delighted to share that An Talamh Faoi Gheasa – The Enchanted Land has been selected for the Chicago Irish Film Festival 2026.
An Talamh Faoi Gheasa – The Enchanted Land is a Gaelic retelling of an ancient Indian folktale rooted in mythology. Performed by migrant artists and set against the backdrop of colonial remnants within the Irish landscape, the film explores how migration can ignite transformations of identity, including expressions of gender fluidity. Through this cross-cultural reimagining, the work proposes a vision of coexistence where non-binary duality becomes a site of possibility, harmony, and belonging.
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
@artscouncilireland@cassette.vision@subhashinigoda.dance@dbmeade.15@adam.rael@dogistruth@aislingdoyledesign@puregrand@derekdoesmusic@mollydonnery@camerakit.ie@twallace_films
My latest experimental performance-based documentary, Out of Shadows – Self-Love Beyond Stigma: Queer Immigrant Lives in Ireland with HIV, will be screened this World AIDS Day.
This film traces the emotional and intimate journeys of queer immigrants living with HIV in Ireland. It honours the courage it takes to live truthfully — and the quiet power of being seen. In today’s climate of rising anti-immigrant discourse, community and friendship become lifelines. For many migrants, they are not luxuries — they are survival.
This work is dedicated to those who never had the chance to come out safely, to love openly, or to be held by a community that recognised them fully.
Thank you to @louisnoguera , @jordigermanotto , and @loveryzi . Your courage is admired, and your contributions are appreciated. Migrants enrich Irish society with histories, languages, and creative visions for the future.
Last year, a curator told me my work wasn’t “good enough” for galleries, highlighting the challenges migrant artists face in Ireland. This film emerged from that moment of exclusion — not from bitterness, but as motivation. When doors close, we create new spaces. Out of Shadows is that space.
Thank you to @cassette.vision , @vedalady , @pozvibepod , @gcnmag , and everyone who supported this project. Your belief made this work possible.
The project was supported with funding from the Grand Camp Maisie Fund, UK (amid of 10th year anniversary of marriage referendum no Irish institution care to support a project focused on lgbt migrants stories!)
My latest experimental performance-based documentary, Out of Shadows – Self-Love Beyond Stigma: Queer Immigrant Lives in Ireland with HIV, will be screened this World AIDS Day.
This film traces the emotional and intimate journeys of queer immigrants living with HIV in Ireland. It honours the courage it takes to live truthfully — and the quiet power of being seen. In today’s climate of rising anti-immigrant discourse, community and friendship become lifelines. For many migrants, they are not luxuries — they are survival.
This work is dedicated to those who never had the chance to come out safely, to love openly, or to be held by a community that recognised them fully.
Thank you to Luis Noguera Benitez, Jordi Moya Roset, and Prateek Bhardwaj. Your courage is admired, and your contributions are appreciated. Migrants enrich Irish society with histories, languages, and creative visions for the future.
Last year, a curator told me my work wasn’t “good enough” for galleries, highlighting the challenges migrant artists face in Ireland. This film emerged from that moment of exclusion — not from bitterness, but as motivation. When doors close, we create new spaces. Out of Shadows is that space.
Thank you to Casset Vision, Veda, Poz Vibe Tribe, GCN, and everyone who supported this project. Your belief made this work possible.
The project was supported with funding from the Grand Camp Maisie Fund, UK (amid of 10th year anniversary of marriage referendum no Irish institution care to support a project focused on lgbt migrants stories!) @outofshadowsfilm@queermyths
My latest experimental performance-based documentary, Out of Shadows – Self-Love Beyond Stigma: Queer Immigrant Lives in Ireland with HIV, will be screened this World AIDS Day.
This film traces the emotional and intimate journeys of queer immigrants living with HIV in Ireland. It honours the courage it takes to live truthfully — and the quiet power of being seen. In today’s climate of rising anti-immigrant discourse, community and friendship become lifelines. For many migrants, they are not luxuries — they are survival.
This work is dedicated to those who never had the chance to come out safely, to love openly, or to be held by a community that recognised them fully.
Thank you to Luis Noguera Benitez, Jordi Moya Roset, and Prateek Bhardwaj. Your courage is admired, and your contributions are appreciated. Migrants enrich Irish society with histories, languages, and creative visions for the future.
Last year, a curator told me my work wasn’t “good enough” for galleries, highlighting the challenges migrant artists face in Ireland. This film emerged from that moment of exclusion — not from bitterness, but as motivation. When doors close, we create new spaces. Out of Shadows is that space.
Thank you to Casset Vision, Veda, Poz Vibe Tribe, GCN, and everyone who supported this project. Your belief made this work possible.
The project was supported with funding from the Grand Camp Maisie Fund, UK (amid of 10th year anniversary of marriage referendum no Irish institution care to support a project focused on lgbt migrants stories!)
