gyrl grip
gyrl grip is the intimate live art collaboration of llewyn máire and Lisa Newman (often joined by other collaborators), founded in 2001
Using video, movement, spoken word, sound sculpture, conceptual and text-based performance, endurance, and experimental music, the gyrl grip explores new possibilities of communicating what is incommunicable.
The themes of the work deal with: issues of oppression, the politics of identity and the influence of power, loss of culture through assimilation, hybridization of cultures out of the need for survival, political and sexual resistance and exploitation, obsession and divinity.
Some notable festivals include:
- Venice International Performance Art Week – Venice – 2016
- Culture Night – Galway – 2015
- Manopsychotisches Ballroom – (collab with sacred spaces) Manchester 2013
- AKAB – Audacious Art Experiment – Sheffield 2012
- PSi #17 – Utrecht – 2011
- Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow – Plymouth 2010
- PSi #14 – Copenhagen – 2008
- Tou Scene – Stavanger – 2007
- Hotel Pupik – Austria – 2007
- Rdece zore – Metelkova – 2007
- Art Action Festival – Monza – 2007
- Lewis and Clark Gender Symposium – Portland – 2006 & 2009
- Five Holes – Toronto – 2006
- PSi #11 – Providence – 2005
- Las Bás – Helsinki and Turku – 2004
- FluXconcert PDX – Portland – 2003
- Full Nelson 5 – Los Angeles – 2003