Sindri visits Ireland as part of their international residency with EBA

Pictured: Sindri recording the sounds of a Dublin pedestrian crossing as part of a soundscape composition.

Following a research phase in Trondheim at Multiplie Festival, Sindri and Pavle visited Dublin for a week of artistic research and collaboration with some of Ireland’s leading access facilitators.

Alongside dramaturgical support from our Artistic Director Sophie Motley, Sindri met with our Access Manager and Creative Producer Adrian Colwell, as well as our long-time collaborator Bríd Ní Ghruagáin, to discuss access provision within arts organisations and approaches to audio description. An audio-described performance of PUFF was also organised for Sindri to attend, which ran at Project as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.

Further engagement with the Dublin Dance Festival included attending and recording elements of a rehearsal of Soft God by Emma Martin, which ran at the Abbey Theatre. This material will contribute to their ongoing artistic research. Sindri also attended an audio-described performance of Fifth Sun at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.

Further artistic research included a visit to West Kerry to meet with Michael Keegan Dolan of Teac Damsa and listen to the sounds of their studio, as well as participation in a creative audio and sensory experience at the Samuel Beckett Theatre facilitated by access artist Helen Hall.

During their time in Dublin Sindri also participated in professional networking and artist development activities, including the Artist Pass Meet & Greet hosted by Dublin Dance Festival Artistic Director Jazmin Chiodi and Executive Director Carina McGrail, as well as attending the Dublin Dance Festival Lates closing event at Bewley’s Café.

We look forward to continued collaboration with Sindri in the future, and a huge thank you to Europe Beyond Access for making international connections between disabled artists like this possible.