Performance, Practice & Interactivity
At Maynooth University we have a strong focus of research on human activities that have creativity at their heart.
We create and analyse the various modes of performance and practice, and we seek to comprehend all of their manifestations. This includes, but is not limited to, artistic enterprise embodied in works of literature, visual, scenic, musical and interactive arts. We explore the cultural and historical environments that in turn nurture these and other human endeavours.
Through our scholarship, we analyse the inherent interactivity that sustains and characterises their origin and legacy and which will shape the cultural richness of the future.
Maynooth University is an ideal Host Institution for a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship and this cluster is interested in finding potential applicants. Find a mentor below or contact performance@mu.ie for more information.
Cluster Members:
The first meeting of the performance cluster will take place on Thursday, 11 September at 12noon in the NIRSA Conference Room 2.31, Iontas Building.
Premiere of 'Seisiún'
Critically acclaimed composition seeks to combine contemporary classical music with a traditional Irish slant
Orbit - a virtual masterpiece
Dr Gordon Delapp is composing a piece of music using never-heard-before sounds generated by a completely new musical instrument.
MU Music student chosen for NCH-RTÉ NSO Inaugural Female Conductor Programme
The National Concert Hall announced MU Music student Raimonda Zalisauskaite as one of twelve chosen participants to take part in it inaugural Female Conductor Programme for 2017/2018. Led by acclaimed British conductor Alice Farnham and supported by Grant Thornton, the programme aims to encourage high calibre female musicians to take up the baton and become orchestral conductors.
Date: Monday, 04 September 2017
Book Launch at the University of Birmingham: Conductors in Britain, 1870–1914 by Prof. Fiona M. Palmer
Book Launch at the University of Birmingham: Conductors in Britain, 1870–1914 by Prof. Fiona M. Palmer
Date: Tuesday, 20 June 2017