Clíona Ní Laoi is an Irish experimental artist and musician working with sound, performance and moving-image. She uses ritual performance, electronics, live analogue media, contact mics, hydrophones, feedback, water, her body, live amplification & spoken word to create poetic and emotionally charged works. She writes and performs music in industrial bands Salac,  All Times Now Nothing , Dreamgirls, & feminist noise trio The Healers . She performs solo under the alias mama matrix, with an accompanying monthly radio show on Dublin Digital Radio. She is a member of record-label AVON TERROR CORPS , a collective of artists working with avant-garde music, performance and activism. She is a recipient of the Music Bursary Award (2020) and the Next Generation Award (2021) from The Arts Council of Ireland.

Fulacht Fiadh was excavated from the mind-bog of Ivan Pawle during pandemic lockdown in 2020CE. Its precise function remains unknown. Thrives in shed-like environments and on south-facing slopes.

Jenn_dream_cycles is a multi-disciplinary artist working with sound production, performance and installation. Her practice is informed by areas including hydrofeminism, situated knowledge and politics of relation. Much of her work is collaborative, evolving through Irish DIY music and art communities and organisations over recent years. Her works include site specific performance (Cork City Gaol, 2018), scores for moving image (Yoga for The Eyes, 2019) and exhibition (Waterbodies, Catalyst Belfast, 2020) as well as solo releases with record labels in Ireland and the Netherlands. Her most recent music release Channels of Time was published by Irish label wherethetimegoes in August 2021. She has played lovingly as DJ for DIY spaces, clubs, galleries, churches and canals across Ireland.


Born in London, based in Dublin, Katie Sullivan has been making music as Katie Kim for over 15 years. Mood is central to the expansive musical landscape of Katie Kim. Darkened corners, icy atmospheres and hypnotic knife edge soundscapes. Piano chords stretch to infinity, cinematic in scope and tectonic in delivery. A slowcore waltz at the bottom of the ocean.

Natalia Beylis was born in Kiev, Ukraine, raised in Baltimore, USA and is now settled into the boggy rural countryside of Leitrim. She creates sonic stories in which she layers seemingly incongruous sounds atop of each other to spawn strange juxtapositions and garbled parallels. Beylis is fascinated by the musicality of the seemingly mundane.

Olivia Furey is an Irish performance and sound artist based in Scotland. Olivia takes on a disruptive and hysterical persona in her performances, who engages vocally with audiences in a challenging and absurd manner. Her persona also involves being an amateur musician who plays electric guitar and invents instruments. Olivia has performed at festivals such as the BBC’s Tectonics, Radiophrenia, and Supernormal. She has also opened for the likes of Gross Net, Robocobra Quartet, and Just Mustard.

Alice Lyons is author of Oona, a novel, (Lilliput Press, Dublin 2020) and three books of poetry, most recently The Breadbasket of Europe (Veer Books, London 2016). She is recipient of the 2002 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry and a Radcliffe Fellowship in Poetry and New Media at Harvard University 2015-16. She is Lecturer in Writing + Literature at the Yeats Academy of Arts, Design & Architecture, IT Sligo.


Mary Looby is a Sligo resident and native, whose written work has appeared in Hidden Channel and  The Moth. She has performed spoken word at The Glens Centre in Manorhamilton, The Model & Osta in Sligo. She has also sung in the Hawkswell Theatre as part of “The Poetry of  Nick Cave” event. 


Paul Corrigan is a poet and musician from Sligo. He has performed with the cult Sligo bands Gulpt and Last Bus to Nowhere, appearing in Spilt Milk Festival 2019. He also writes prose and paints abstract art.


Seán Hickey, a long term Sligo resident, grew up in Tipperary. He has taught English in Spain, worked as an archaeologist, a journalist and in London’s West End. He is currently a freelance book reviewer for the Irish Examiner. A prize winner in the Westival International Poetry Competition, he was recently published in The Cormorant, and is a regular contributor to Hidden Channel.

Donal Adams graduated GMIT in 2002 with a BA in Painting and Printmaking. For the last ten years he has worked in a semi abstract manner focusing on bio-organic shapes and bright saturated colour. He lives and works in sligo. Exhibitions include a solo show in Teach Bán, Drumcliffe, Sligo (2017) and the curated exhibitions Northwest Visual, Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2018) Cairde Visual, The Model Arts Centre (2017, 2019). 9 Walls, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo (2019) and Westival, Westport, Mayo (2020). 

Faerie Lord is an anonymous collective based in Sligo, that makes zines and hides them in places. Their members include Wyrd Caldron, Technopagan and Hex Lord- all of whom were brought together by their encounter with a mysterious blue skinned being wearing nothing but a crown and a cape. They were a part of the Cairde Visual show 2019 and have distributed 10 full original zines for free in Sligo, including ‘The Children of the the Matrix’, ‘Maiden Walk’ and ‘A Comic where Everyone has Pigeons for Hands and it has NO IMPACT on the Story’


Kim Kennedy is an illustrator and photographer. They are currently a staff member of the democratically run Sligo Sudbury school. They have a background in social activism and DIY culture which shaped their work and personal goals. In addition to organizing in the community and facilitating workshops, in 2015 They opened a radical zine library dedicated to archiving LGBTI+, feminist and anti-racist zines in Barcelona, later forming a collective which is still running.


Róisín Tree is a multidisciplinary artist from Sligo Ireland. She works with photographic collage, sculptural installation, traditional hand painted signs as She Rose Signs and community art projects. She received her MA in Fine Art from NCAD in 2011, became co founder of Satellite Studios where she managed the studios and curated shows in the gallery space; Exhibitions: [preface], Pallas Contemporary Projects, 2010, solo show Lenticularis, the Joinery in 2012; Coracle Oracle, Phibsborough Arts Festival, 2013; Art and Aesthetic Intervention, The Drawing Project, 2014; Tracing the Unseen, Phibsborough Arts festival, 2014; MART Garden, MART, 2015-16; FREENIX in collaboration with Little Gem, 2018; Annual fundraiser, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, 2019.

Adam Rooke is a poet from Sligo. His work has appeared in publications such as The Moth, Poetry Ireland Review, Honest Ulsterman and Orbis. He has performed as part of the Cairde Festival and as a part of Featherheads and Dreamers in the Model Sligo. He works in Bookmart Sligo, and helps run the Illuminations Open Mic poetry night.