Perpetual Succour
Saturday 31 May and Sunday June 1
Saturday in the Aistear Maze @ 12.30pm
Sunday in the Harbour near the Mayfly @ 12pm
Duration 40 min
€10, €8 with wristband
The artists Rachel Macmanus will perform Perpetual Succour, a live performance art work, in two locations for Mountshannon Arts Festival 2025.
Perpetual succour means ‘assistance and support in times of hardship and distress’. Rachel Macmanus will perform a looping action, repeating over and over, trying to live in the moment through the action. This ongoing repetition is intended to provide relief through the physical hard work from the clamouring voices in our heads. In a society which constantly tries to distract us with technology and digital media, staying present in a space is the most challenging thing of all.
Rachel Mcmanus
Based in Co Clare, Ireland, Rachel works through drawing, painting and performance. Rachel holds a Masters in Fine Art, Open College of the Arts (UCA) 2019 and a BA in Visual Communications, National College of Art and Design 1997
She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally at Live Art Ireland, Mart Gallery Dublin, 126 Artist Run Gallery/Galway, glór/Clare, Ps2 Studios/Belfast, Revision Festival/Belfast, FIX21 Catalyst Arts/Belfast, Die Kunstschaffenden Gallery/Austria and Musikhuset/Sweden.
Rachel has co-facilitated Creative Circles, a monthly meeting space for Clare based Creatives, since 2021. She is director of the art collective Negative Space, who have painted over 40 public art works in Co Clare since 2022. In 2023 Rachel founded the performance art collective Here and Now. Rachel currently co-facilitates p(art)y Here and Now- a monthly participatory performance art event in Ennis. Co Clare. Rachel is a member of Visual Artists Ireland, BBeyond Live, Interface Inagh and LiveArt Ireland.
Rachel created, directed and produced the inaugural Here and Now Performance Art Festival, a one day festival of performance art which took place on 16th August 2024 at the Courthouse Gallery, Co Clare..
Website: https://rachelmacmanus.art
Substack: rackmack.substack.com