Bbeyond

About us

Bbeyond is currently updating its membership. You can download a application form here and our constitution  here. Please email any queries to bbeyond@europe.com. 

Becoming a Bbeyond member is easy: just fill in the application form and post it with your payment to Bbeyond or hand it in person to Brian Patterson, Administration. At the next meeting of the Bbeyond committee your application will be considered and you will be notified of your membership by email (or letter).

Persons resident in Northern Ireland may apply for full Membership which entitles them to vote at the Annual general Meeting, propose members to serve on theCommittee, stand for election to the committee and serve on it if elected, in addition to the Associate Membership privileges below:

Persons not resident in Northern Ireland may apply for Associate Membership, entitling them to privileges such as being included in our mailing list, preferential rates for Bbeyond events, workshops and publications, and of course, the opportunity to be considered for national and international performance art exchanges.

We are looking forward to welcoming you as a valuable member of Bbeyond!

Mission Statement

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.

Hypothesis 

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, Colm Clarke, Brian Connolly, Alastair MacLennan, Hugh O'Donnell, Kasia Pagel, Rainer Pagel, Anne Quail

Contact Us

Bbeyond
c/o Flaxart Studios
44-46 Corporation St
Belfast BT1 3DE
Mobile: 07968643871
Email: bbeyond@europe.com