About us
Bbeyond is committed to promoting the practice of performance art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. Our aim is to raise people’s consciousness of live/performance art as being integral to the world in and around us, inspiring reflection and enriching lived experience.
We host artists of international reputation throughout the performance art world and encourage newer artists to experience performance art practices for themselves. Bbeyond encourages greater access to and appreciation of this visually based art form, through facilitating modes of active private/public participation, allowing people from all sectors of society, not just the traditional arts, to experience and enjoy performance art directly.
This hypothesis for Bbeyond has a two-fold nature, one the ‘actual’, the other liminal, one based on the physical/literal journey, the other on a more elusive journeying through the process of being and becoming.
The literal, overtly physical aspect deals with the location of Belfast and hosts international artists here to present work alongside local artists, thereby increasing the knowledge and consciousness of performance art here and increasing opportunities for local artists to travel abroad.
The liminal nature deals with transition, transformation and transcendence. This is the more subtle aspect and the power of the work rests in that it can only be realised in the process of actual being and doing. “Bbeyond” has the potential to become a directional force towards a lived philosophy of being, that continues long after the framing of any specific performance has ended, becoming the real transitioning and transforming energy in the life consciousness of the practitioner, to literally ‘be beyond’.
Current Committee:
Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell, Chrissie Cadman, Colm Clarke, Brian Connolly, Alastair MacLennan, Hugh O'Donnell, Rainer Pagel
Contact Us
Bbeyond
c/o Flaxart Studios
44-46 Corporation St
Belfast BT1 3DE
Mobile: 07968643871
Email: bbeyond@europe.com
PUBLICATIONS
This publication documents and contextulises the I AM/JETSEM event alongside the otehr contingent activities of Bbeyond in 2008/9.
Forward by: Chrissie Cadman
Essays and articles from: Dr Slavka Sverakova, Brian McAvera, Dr Justin McKeown, Dr Christia-Maria Lerm Hayes, Colin Darke, Brian Connolly
PAPERBACK: 168 pages colour photographs throughout
PUBLISHER: Bbeyond Belfast NI
DIMENSIONS: 18.4 x 29.7 cm
ISBN: 978-0-9557176-1-1
This book details a bus project that toured to various parts of Northern Ireland making over 70 performances in 6 days featuring Myriam Laplante, Roi Vaara, Zygmunt Piotrowski, Esther Ferrer, Boris Nieslony, Elvira Santamaria, Kurt Johannesses, Artur Tajber, Sandra Johnston, Alastair MacLennan, Brian Connolly, Dan Shipsides, James King, Eammon O’Donnell, Christine Gilloway, Bag-Trix Action Theatre, Brian Patterson.
Forward by: Kirsten Mey
Essays and articles from: Julie Bacon, Brian Connolly, om lekha , Brian Patterson and Mark Ward
PAPERBACK: 160 pages colour photographs throughout
PUBLISHER: Bbeyond and Interface, Belfast NI
DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 17.2 x 1.5 cm
ISBN: 978-0-9557176
TO ORDER
pani: I AM/JETSEM and In Place of Passing are available.
Postage & Package to UK & Europe 15 pounds sterling each.
To receive a copy or for other enquires please email: bbeyond@europe.com