Thresh / Hold, 2025, Becoming Tallaght: Performance Art Festival
Rua Red, Dublin
Thresh / Hold was a site-responsive performance rooted in the grotesque as a methodology of excavation, disruption, and transformation. Set within the Losset at St. Maelruain’s Church, the work staged a charged encounter between Tallaght-born poets Katharine Tynan and Alice Furlong. Through live action, text, and ritual, it explores entangled legacies of empire, faith, land, and gendered voice.
The performance drew a sharp contrast between Tynan’s Palestine: 1917 and Furlong’s The Warnings. The friction between the two becoming a way to confront ongoing histories of erasure. The losset once a vessel of communal sustenance becoming altar, protest, and threshold. This performance act was an embodied gesture of resistance and solidarity, calling attention to what is being omitted in our histories, our present narratives and our potential future records. As part of Becoming Tallaght: Performance Art Festival 2025. Photography by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
