July
20 2007 - Lorg Printmakers and Galway Arts Festival
'Conflict' exhibition at The White Room Gallery.
'Collaborations & Upheavals' the 2007 series;
'Drawing to Music' performance collaboration with
the experimental collective 'Vince Mc Mahon &
the Entourage' - Dj's Deviant, The Hideous Penguin,
Mikey Fingers & Tweek, Live on four turntables.
www.lorgprintmakers.com
www.myspace.com/lorgprint
www.myspace.com/rockymeaneyliveart
July
13/14 2007 - The State of Mantua Music Arts Festival
Co. Roscommon Ireland.
'Drawing to Music' performance collaboration with
the experimental collective 'Vince Mc Mahon &
the Entourage' - Dj's Deviant, The Hideous Penguin,
Mikey Fingers & Tweek, Live on four turntables.
www.mantuaproject.com
www.myspace.com/mantua07
June
2007 - "STRESS" weekly multimedia performance
night at Club de Burgo's Augustine St. Galway.
'Drawing to Music' performance collaboration with
the experimental collective 'Vince Mc Mahon &
the Entourage' - Dj's Deviant, The Hideous Penguin,
Mikey Fingers & Tweek, Live on four turntables.
www.myspace.com/stressahah
www.myspace.com/deviantfien
www.myspace.com/spudwogdan
www.myspace.com/jimmythehideouspenguin
August
2006 - Bloom in Tralee, Music Festival Co. Kerry
Ireland.
Live street drawing performance intervention with
live percussion, performed at the Main Square, Tralee
Town Centre, Co.Kerry, Ireland.
Organized by Mr. John Lillis and the crew from Club
Head Bang-Bang / Kerrynini Records, Co.Kerry.
www.bloomintralee.ie
www.myspace.com/kerrynini
July
2006 - PROJECT '06 Arts Festival and The Enso Live
Art Initiative presents The Enso Live Art Bus Tour
at various locations in Galway City.
"The Political Bus Party" a live site-specific
performance intervention on the Promenade in Salthill
Beach, Galway.
www.ensoart.com
March
2006 - ‘Warp Records’ and ‘Planet
Mu’ in association with
‘Mantua Project’ & ‘Leechrum
Nights D’ Present; A Night of High End Cutting
Edge Mayhem at the Temple Bar Music Centre Dublin
Ireland.
Guilty Parties; Chris Clark (Warp Records), Milanese
(Warp Records), Rocky Meaney (Rockomedia), Vex’d
(Planet Mu), The Person (Leechrum)
Live
drawing performance to 'Break-Core' beats - in collaboration
with Dj Vex'd. *All actions produced and choreographed
by Rockomedia Productions
Organized and Curated by Mike Cleary – ‘Mantua
Arts Project’
Construction – Mark ‘the Gaffer’
Reddan
Camera / Technical Assistance – Carolann Connolly
Transport – ‘Skinny Chopper Barrett’
www.mantuaproject.com
August 2005 “We are not afraid”–
The Roisin Dubh Galway
Performed live as part of the ‘DEVIL’S
CHILD’ gig on August 17th
Organized and Curated by Ciaron Davies and Rocky
Meaney
Camera – Eoghan Hunt
Special thanks to management Gugai and all the staff
at the Roisin Dubh
www.roisindubh.net
“Underground
over ground” - Bomb Affected Area –
July 21 2005
Performed as part of ENSO Live Art Initiative and
Galway Arts Festival 2005
“The Fourth Floor”
Hynes’ Multistory Car Park
Merchants Road
Galway
Curated and organized by ENSO Live Artists Initiative.
Technical assistance and advice - Jason Earley Camera
– Jason Earley / Fifty Hurtz Films. Sounds
produced and engineered live by Barry Prendergast/
Eyedrenaline inc. All actions produced and directed
by Rocky Meaney
“Plastic
Incendiary” - June 20 2005
Performed
as part of the ‘YO’ Alternative Arts
Festival
‘Celebrating youth culture in the city of
tribes’.
Father Burke park
Galway
Organised and Curated by Morgan O Folan and Paul
Cotter.
Music performed live by DJ Paul Cotter – The
Commander.
Technical assistance / Camera – Jason Earley
/ Fifty Hurtz Films
“Contract killing” - June 2005
Performed
as part of the ‘YO’ festival fundraiser
‘Celebrating youth culture in the city of
tribes’.
Club Aras na Gael – Dominic St. Galway.
Organised
and curated by Morgan O Folan and Paul Cotter (The
Commander).
Music performed live by DJ’s Deviant and Jimmy
The Hideous Penguin
Camera – Meave O’Neil
“Razor
Wire” – May 2005
Performed
as part of ENSO ‘Home entertainment’
live art event
St. Bridget’s Place Galway City.
Curated by ENSO Artists Collective and Margaretta
D’arcy (anti-war activist)
Sounds produced and engineered live by Barry Prendergast
Eyedrenaline Inc.
All actions produced and directed by Rocky Meaney
– Rockomedia Productions
Camera – Tom Flannagan - Enso
www.ensoart.com
Muscailt - Annual Spring Arts festival - February
15 2005
“Going the extra mile…inside enemy lines”
Bank of Ireland Theatre – National University
of Ireland Galway.
Curated by ENSO Artists Collective and N.U.I.G.
Directed and produced by Rocky Meaney
All sounds performed live by Rocky Meaney.
Camera – Pat Comer
Tulca – Annual Festival of Visual Art November
2004
Venue: ‘Engage’ Art Studios, Middle
Street, Galway Eire
• Screening of Live Art Video Documentation.
The
Galway Arts Festival’ and the ‘ENSO’
Artists Collective July 14 – 17 2004 in Conjunction
with Ard Bia Restaurant, Quay Street, Galway.
• ‘Site-Specific Performance Action.’
– 4 nights duration.
INPORT
- International Video Performance Festival - November
29th 2003 Tallinn, Estonia.
• Screening of video documentation from ‘Site
Specific’ performance work, Caylus, France;
May / June 2003. WWW.INPORT.TK
May 13th – June 25th 2003: ‘Artist in
Residence @ The Drawing, Research, Action, Workshops
/ D.R.A.W International - 82160, Rue du Chateau,
‘Research for the Arts’, Caylus, France.
• Tuition : John McNorton and Grete Hayward
• 6 week “Site Specific” performance
based workshops resulting in new body of work. WWW.DRAWINTERNATIONAL.COM
April
19th 2003: “Club Outstageous” @ The
Black Box Theatre, Dyke Road, Galway, Eire. “Easter
Apocalypse Show”.
• Live “cage” performance and
audience participatory event. WWW.CLUBOUTSTAGEOUS.COM
March
21st 2003: G.M.I.T. Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
– ‘Students Union’ Arts and Culture
Week.
• Chluain Mhuire Campus Art College.
• 4-hour durational live drawing performance.
Organized and Curated by – Amanda Coogan /
Performance Artist
Feb. 22nd – March 1st 2003: “The Living
Artists Association”, “Groundless –
Gan Tallaimh” Exhibition @ Taibhdhearc na
Gaillimhe (Amharclann Náisiúnta na
Gaeilge Teo).• Showcasing a spectrum of mixed
media work and performance documentation.
October
26/27 2002: “Dublin Electronic Arts Festival”
[D.E.A.F.] Oct. 20-28 2002
• Commissioned work for “D.E.A.F.”:
Title performance performed by Rocky Meaney.
• Video documentation screened in St. James’
Gate @ The Guinness Storehouse
26/10/2002 as part of D.E.A.F. ’02. WWW.DEAFIRELAND.COM
May
18th 2002: “Time based Web cast” “12
– 12” Performance and Time Based Practice
Live Web Cast.
• Performance • Sonic • Video
• Net art interdisciplinary practice.
• “Intimate(s)” Pt. One: 6 hour
performance, performed @ The Intimate Installation
Space, Cardiff School of Art & Design on 18/05/02
WWW.TIMEBASED.ORG.UK
March 1st ‘Power drawing’ - Choreographed
by Dr. John McNorton (Lecturer M.A. Ceramics) [U.W.I.C.]
(MA Drawing), R.C.A., and Royal College of Art London.
• Performed at Howard Gardens Art Gallery
on 01/03/2002, Cardiff School of Art and Design,
U.W.I.C. Wales, U.K.
April
20th 2001: “Meritocracy” Group Exhibition
@ ‘The Burren College of Art’ Newtown
Castle, Co. Clare, Éire.
• “Roots – the state(s) of identity”
– live experiments in sound and vocal arrangements.
• Documentary photography by Eileen Maloney.
WWW.BURRENCOLLEGE.COM
Feb. 17th 2001: “The National Review of Live
Art” N.R.L.A. 14-18 February 2001
• ‘Dirtlandscape’ Live performance
performed as part of the “Free state Open
Platform” - Arch 2 East @ The Arches, Argyle
St., Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. WWW.NEWMOVES.CO.UK
January
10th 2001: “Trailer park” Film / Video
Festival.
• Public screening of film, documentation
and performance art work @ the U.G.C. Multiplex
Cinema, Mary Ann St., Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
• Independently run event with the co-operation
of U.G.C. cinemas international.
October
20th 2000: “Urban Recollections…from
Glasgow with Love”
• Collaboration project between time-based
practice U.W.I.C. Cardiff School of Art and Design,
and MA Architecture Students, Strathclyde University,
Glasgow.
• Final performance presentation culminated
in the Scottish Highlands on 20/10/'00