Helena Walsh - Live Art and Video Performance

Education:
2009 - 2013	PhD, The Department of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London
2003 - 2004	Masters in Fine Art with Distinction, Chelsea College of Art, London
1997 - 2001	Bachelors in Fine Art Sculpture with Distinction, Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland

Publications:
Book Chapters
2022	Ann Rossiter and Helena Walsh, ‘From the underground to the avant-garde: A conversation on contributions of the Irish Feminist Diaspora to reproductive justice in Northern Ireland’ in Decriminalising Abortion in Northern Ireland, Bloomer, F., and Campbell, E. (eds.), Bloomsbury Press.
2021	Co-authored with Speaking of IMELDA, ‘Homing in on the States we are In: Speaking of IMELDA’ in: Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries: Commemoration, Gender and the Postcolonial Carceral State, ed. by McAuliffe, M., Pine, E. and Haughton, M., Manchester University Press
2019	Co-authored with members of the Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A., ‘A Radical Feminist Diaspora: Speaking of IMELDA, Reproductive Justice and Ireland’ in The Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics edited by Ruth Kinna and Uri Gordon. Routledge.
2015	Helena Walsh ‘Developing Dialogues: Live art and Femininity in Post-Conflict Ireland’ in Performance Art in Ireland: A History, edited by Dr. Áine Phillips. Intellect and the Live Art Development Agency..
Articles in Peer-reviewed and other Journals
2022	Helena Walsh, ‘Performing Resistance, Care and Labour: Feminist Art and Activism in an Irish Context’ in performingborders e-journal #2: Rallying the Commons
2020	Helena Walsh, ‘Performances of Autonomy: Feminist Performance Practice and Reproductive Rights in Ireland’ in Scene: Special Issue on Performance and Ireland, 8 (1), pp. 29-45
2020	Helena Walsh, ‘Hanging our Knickers Up: Asserting Autonomy and Cross-Border Solidarity in the #Repalthe8thCampaign,’ in Feminist Review: Special Issue on Abortion in Ireland, 124, pp. 144-151
2020	Valérie Morisson, ‘Interview with Helena Walsh’ in Études Irlandaises 45(1), pp.25-32
2018	Christelle Seree-Chaussinand and Helena Walsh, ‘Incarnating and articulating the female other. Interview with Helena Walsh’ Études Irlandaises: Special Issue Irish self-portraits the artist in curved mirrors, 43:1 (2018)
2015	Co-authored with Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A., ‘Dirty Work Still to be Done: Retrieving and Activating Feminist Acts of Resistance,’ online article to coincide with Contemporary Theatre Review: Special Issue on Gesture, Theatricality, and Protest 25(3) (2015). http://www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/2015/margaretta-darcy/
2013	Helena Walsh ‘Performing Processes: Live Art and Irish Culture,’ Contemporary Theatre Review: Special Issue on the Northern Irish Peace Process 23:3 (2013), 334 -344
2012	Johanna Linsley and Helena Walsh ‘Gobsmacked: Getting Speechless in Performance,’ Contemporary Theatre Review: Special Issue on Live Art in the UK, 22:1 (2012), 161-166.
Catalogue Essay
2012	Helena Walsh LABOUR: Producing Potentials for Empowerment, essay in LABOUR Exhibition Catalogue. Dublin: The Lab / Dublin City Council
Other
2018	Blog by Helena Walsh based on her presentation at the Border Patrollers event at the Live Art Development Agency as part of Aine Phillips’ Future Histories Project ‘Border Patrollers’ event, which formed part of Aine Phillips’ ‘Future States’ project examining the relationship between Ireland and the UK, in the context of a post-Brexit future. http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/blog/future-states-by-aine-phillips-no.4
2018	Speaking of IMELDA, ‘On the Road to the Referendum,’ Red Pepper Magazine https://www.redpepper.org.uk/on-the-road-to-the-referendum/
2017	Speaking of IMELDA, ‘When Enda Met Imelda’ Cult Magazine, Issue 08
2016	Speaking of I.M.E.L.D.A. Direct Action Feminist Performance Group, (2016) Online interview produced as part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970. https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/speaking-of-imelda
2016	Contribution to Performing Borders: A Study Room Guide on physical and conceptual borders within Live Art (2016) compiled and written by Alessandra Cianetti for the Study Room of the Live Art Development Agency London
2016	Contribution to Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (2016) compiled and written by Emily Underwood-Lee and Lena Simic for the Study Room of the Live Art Development Agency London
2016	Benjamin Sebastian and Helena Walsh ‘Producing Potentials for Empowerment’ in The Live Art Almanac Volume 4, (2016) edited by Harriet Curtis, Lois Keidan and Aaron Wright published by The Live Art Development Agency.
2015	Contribution of artist’s map to Are We There Yet? – A Study Room Guide on Live Art and Feminism published by Live Art Development Agency London, curated by Lois Weaver in collaboration with Eleanor Roberts
2015	Contribution of artist’s map to Live Art and Feminism in the UK, Google Cultural Institute, December 2015. A partnership with the Google Cultural Institute to create an online exhibition on Live Art and Feminism in the UK. This exhibition,curated by Live Art Development Agency (London) in collaboration with Eleanor Roberts (Queen Mary, University of London), offers a snapshot of some of the key figures and issues of Live Art and Feminism in the UK since 1970. https://goo.gl/zUlE8e
2011	Ann Maria Healy and Helena Walsh, Brutal Silences: Live Art and Irish Culture, a study room guide commissioned by Live Art Development Agency, London. http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/resources/Study_Room/guides/healy_walsh.html

Curatorial Projects / Conference Organisation
2022	Curatorial panel member for Compression and Oppression – Residency Programme, Live Art Ireland
2013 -2018	Speaking of IMELDA Helena Walsh is a founder member of Speaking of IMELDA, a direct-action, feminist performance group based in London. Since forming in December 2013, this inter-generational collective has undertaken a number of public performance interventions that challenge the restrictions on access to abortion on the island of Ireland, that have been featured in national newspapers and a number of other high-profile publications and media. Between 2013 and the successful referendum to repeal the 8th amendment in the Republic of Ireland on 25th May 2018 that enabled the government to legislate for access to abortion, Helena Walsh played a key role in sustaining the collective collaborations of Speaking of IMELDA, contributing to the development of the groups public performances, publications and media campaigns. For more info please visit www.speakingofimelda.org
2015	Co-curator of ‘Performing Pleasure’ with Livestock as part of the Dublin Live Art Festival Summer programme 2015. Programme included performances by Fergus Byrne, Luke Byrne, Tara Carroll Laura O’Conner, Luke O’Meara and Helena Walsh
2012	LABOUR, a touring exhibition of Live Art, featuring eleven leading female artists who are resident within, or native to, Northern and Southern Ireland. LABOUR was co-curated by Amanda Coogan, Chrissie Cadman and Helena Walsh and produced by Benjamin Sebastian of ]performance s p a c e[, London. This exhibition was accompanied by two public forums and a one-day symposium. It was supported by ]performance s p a c e[, London, The Lab, Dublin, Void Gallery, Derry /Londonderry, Queen Mary University of London, Graduate School of Creative Art and Media (GradCAM), Dublin University of Ulster, The Live Art Development Agency, London, Derry City Council and The Arts Council of Ireland.
2010	GOBSMACKED : Getting Speechless in Performance a one day conference co-organised with Johanna Lindsleyat Queen Mary University of London as part of the Arts and Humanities Council’s Beyond Text, Student–led initiatives.

Invited Presentations, Papers Presented:
2022	Invited Speaker: Feminism and Performance with artist Helena Walsh as part of performingborders: Body, Politics and Live Art at The Barbican London https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/feminism-performance-with-artist-helena-walsh
2021	Invited Speaker: Dialogue with Emma Campbell as part of Thinking Praxis in a Radically Altered World – Belfast School of Artand the MAC, Belfast
2020	Invited Speaker: ENGAGE… conversations across performance studies and the maternal: Health Policy and Impact : https://performanceandthematernal.com/maternal-forums/
2019	Invited Speaker: Array Studios Symposium ‘If you don’t play the game, don’t make the rules’ at Jerwood Arts London
2018	Invited Speaker: Border Patrollers. Live Art Development Agency London
2013-2018	As a member of Speaking of IMELDA Helena Walsh presented at numerous events including: FLaK Seminar: Feminist Legal Studies, Queen Mary University (2016) TEDx UCL Women, annual conference at University College London (2016) Festival of Choice, Amnesty International London (2016) Key Note Performance at 1916: Home: 2016, National University Galway (2016) Queer Caff, New Cross London (2016) Pussy Patrons Feminist Performance Night, Limehouse Town Hall, London (2016) Second Annual Conference: What do Women Need?, Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment, Dublin (2015) Performance and Workshop as part of the exhibition From East to the Barbican, Barbican Centre London (2015) Directing Action’ as part of Performance Art Faction at ]performance s p a c e[, London Cross Cultural Live Art Project (CLAPP) at the Proud Archivist, London (2014) Festival of Choice, London in collaboration with Central American Women’s Network (CAWN) and Amnesty International (2014) AnarchoFeminist Conference, Queen Mary University, London (2014)
2017	Invited Speaker: Seeing Red: Menstrual Politics and Protest as part of the Gender, Sexuality and Violence Seminar, Courtauld Institute of Art
2016	Invited Speaker: Motherhood and Live Art gathering at the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, Liverpool
2015	Invited Speaker: Feminism and the Body: Current Practices, Mart, Dublin
2015	Invited Speaker: Performance Art Faction, ]performance space[, London
2013	Conference Paper, Performing Documents, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2013	Invited Speaker: Conference on Irish Self-Portraiture, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon – Department of Science and Humanities.
2012	Invited Speaker: The Pleasure of the Look: Gazing and Surveillance, Symposium, Royal College of Art, London.
2012	Conference paper ‘Labour: Producing Potentials for Empowerment’ JAM: Journeys Through Media, Department of Film, Theatre and Television University of Reading Presentation on the ‘Expansion, Endurance and Durational Performance Panel.
2012	Conference paper ‘Performing Processes: Live Art and Irish Culture’ at Symposium on Performance from the Visual Arts, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin.
2010	Presentation on Practice at the Centre For Creative Practices, Dublin.
2010	Invited Speaker: Symposium on performance art practices, Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (Gradcam), Dublin.
2010	Conference Paper: ‘Hunger Turned in Rows’ at Double Dialogues Conference, The Hunger Artist: The Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.

Exhibitions / Performances:
2022	Convergence – Bbeyond and Live Art Ireland
2020	Buttered Up – invited performer as part of Ain Phillips’ exhibition at Mart, Dublin
2019	Curating Borderless Spaces at the Live Art Development Agency by Performing Borders Live
2016	Scarred, Shifting and Sacred Sites: an evening of art, advocacy and performance, curated by Something Human for Autograph ABP: Rivington Place, London
2016	Future Histories, Kilmainham Gaol curated by Niamh Murphy and Áine Phillips as part of the Arts Council of Ireland 2016 programme.http://www.artscouncil.ie/future-histories/
2015	Dublin Live Art Festival, Dublin
2014	Cross Cultural Live Art Project, The Proud Archivist, London
2014	Dublin Live Art Festival, Mart, Dublin
2014	Feminist Hysteria, Loud and Western Building, London
2014	Site Space at Winns Gallery, Walthamstow London
2014	Discharge v Untouchable, The Flying Dutchman, London, curated by Franko B and Martin O’Brien
2013	Daytime Drama, I’m With You, Rivington Place, London
2013	Terminal, London– a 54-hour durational event curated by Something Human and Push.
2013	Islington Exhibits, Ironmonger Row Baths, London.
2013	Borderline Festival, Norwich.
2013	Solo performance at the Athenuem Theatre, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
2012	I’m with you, at the Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, London.
2012	LABOUR, a live touring showcase London, Derry / Londonderry and Dublin.
2011	The Fringe Out West, Strokestown House, Roscommon, Ireland.
2011	I’m with you, Vogue Fabrics, London.
2010	Right Here, Right Now, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland.
2010	Transversal - Block T - Dublin.
2010	Response, Landsguard Fort, Felixstowe, UK.
2010	‘I’m With You’ – Powerscroft Rd, London.
2010	‘I’m With You’ at MKII Gallery, London.
2009	‘I’m With You’ – Powerscroft Rd, London.
2007	Intimacy Across Digital and Visceral Performance, George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths University London.
2007	Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
2007	ZAZ Festival, Israel - Performance Art Platform PAP, Tel Aviv / Jerusalem / Mitzpe Ramon
2007	Rub Me Up The Wrong Way, Contemporary Arts, Norwich.
2007	Act Art, London
2007	Map Live, Carlisle.
2007	The National Review of Live Art, The Tramway Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland.
2006	Within and Without, Tulca Season of Visual Art, Galway, Ireland.
2006	The Wormhole Saloon IV, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2006	Performing Rights Library, Performance Studies International, Queen Mary University, London.
2005	Tulca, Galway, Ireland.
2005	Bodily Functions, The Granary Theatre, Cork, Ireland.
2005	Triode, Reception Art Space, London.
2004	Unexpected, The Shoreditch Festival, London.
2004	Artivisits Festival, Peckham, London.
2004	Besame Mucho, Hoxton Hall, London.
2002	The East End Collaborations, London.
2002	The National Review of Live Art, The Arches,Glasgow, Scotland.
2002	Eject, Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick, Ireland.
2001	New Territories, The Bell Table, Limerick, Ireland.
2001	[De]Construct, The Real Art Space, Limerick, Ireland.