4 O'Clock Teas for artists

This Friday Mrua is hosting tea/coffee at 4 O'Clock as an opportunity to meet with artists who partook in The Power of Local, Ennistymon July 2012 and those interested in live performance. (4-6pm sharp)

  4 O'Clock Teas: Based on friendship, hospitality and sharing, this gathering is not necessarily to discuss another festival but rather an intimate space that is conducive to explorative dialogue between individuals. This week's rough guide to ways in for discussion with people who don't know each other are the notion of public performance and audience and the role of artist and whatever else comes up in the little whispers over a cup of tea! Inspired by thoughts below from by visiting artist Pauline Keena. If you fancy just being there and sipping tea in lovely company, you are so welcome. You are also welcome to give your feedback on my blog comments.(Just to clarify: its not a formal presentation or a group discussion...)

 4 O'Clock Teas is also a meeting point that provides an opportunity to engage with this weekend's visiting artist, Pauline Keena and Maeve Collins who is on a Durational Residnecy here until mid- Feburary. 4 O'Clock Teas takes place every second Friday. This is as part of the Mrua series of residencies and meetings for artists, curators and dance-makers taking place in Maria's home, Luisne, Monreal North, Ennistymon, Co. Clare.

 Thought for 4 O'Clock Teas: 


 "I think that when the audience experiences or encounters a live event in their street there is a certain unease because the position of a boundary arises. In witnessing the live event suddenly there is no where to go to get away from whats happening, there is the need to create a distance and be sure that this new created reality is not going to encroach on the real life of the street so that later on the street will be safe again. I think that if the audience looks at an image of the performance, the reality of the lived event is framed and contained in the image so that the boundary is very certain, it is an image of the event. However in allowing the process room to be a performance it allows the audience in, something becomes available, the possibility of an encounter." Extract from Pauline Keena in interview by Sorge (Magnus Tittima) in response to her performance as part of The Power of Local, Ennistymon, Co.Clare, July 2012, used with kind permission of the author, copyright Pauline Keena.

For the next 4'o clock Teas meeting on Friday the 3rd Feburary at  Outrider Artist Maeve Collins who is on a Durational Residency here at Mrua will offer thoughts on rural art questions and how can we bring the rural art to other people.