Friday 19 September 2025, 5:00 – 8:30 pm
Drop-in event, no booking required
Ledger Studio
Bbeyond and University of Atypical present an evening of accessible performance art in the Ledger Studio. Drop-in from 5:00 pm to watch two members of Bbeyond perform their work. Performance art uses space, time and the body to create a reaction between artist and audience. You might not know what you’re going to experience during the evening, but we hope it will provoke a response! Audiences can enter and leave at any time during the performances, and no booking is required.
Bbeyond is an arts organisation based in Northern Ireland that focuses on Performance Art. Membership includes multidisciplined artists from many locations. Bbeyond are involved in local, national and international projects and in 2025 celebrate 50 years since Alastair MacLennan brought this art form to Ireland.
There are two artists performing at this event: Elaine McGinn and Sorcha Keeve. Sorcha’s performance will run from approximately 5:30 – 6:30 pm, and Elaine’s performance will run from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. There will be Bbeyond performance art film playing at the start and break of the event.
Sorcha Keeve, originally from Donegal, utilises their practice as a way of confronting and unraveling previous experiences and feelings. Specialising in sculpture and lens, the artist aims to create bodily manifestations of what lies in the psyche and simultaneously string together a cohesive narrative of what is seemingly unrelated. Through abstracting forms and manipulating material, the final body of work encapsulates the aforementioned aspects of Keeve’s practice, constructing a solidified collection of lived truths.
Elaine McGinn is a multi-disciplinary artist, born in Belfast and currently living and working on the North East coast of Ireland, where she has been active in areas of performance, community art and art education from 2004. Elaine’s work draws from previous studies in art therapy and a focus on new directions in her art, taking on a contrast of media and material that serves to intersect and interweave throughout the performative space. It reflects on the poignant and precarious questions surrounding family, roles and relationships. The work resonates with both the domestic and the post-industrial environments of our time, spanning generations of storytelling, place and approaches to labour.
Content guidance: these performance sessions will involve direct engagement with audience members, if the audience member chooses. One performer will use eggs as part of their performance. One performer will be using wallpaper paste. Audience members should not come into physical contact with either material. If you have any allergies please let a volunteer know when entering the studio.
This evening will be presented with audio description which provides a spoken description of the visual performance to support blind and partially sighted audiences. If you would like to use the audio description please let a volunteer know when entering the studio and you will be given a headset. If you have any other access requirements to enable you to attend please email access@universityofatypical.org
