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Askeaton Contemporary Arts 20-year celebrations continue with international events
2026 Askeaton Contemporary Arts 20-year celebrations continue with international events. Pictured is Seanie Baron, who has his show ‘Aimsir a Chaillfidh’ showing as part of the celebrations.
Askeaton Contemporary Arts continues to celebrate their twenty year anniversary in 2026, embracing the local and global arts community
Askeaton Contemporary Arts continues to celebrate their twientieth year anniversary, together with artists, comrades and communities throughout Limerick, Ireland and internationally.
Since 2006, Askeaton Contemporary Arts commission, produce and exhibit contemporary art in the locale of a small town in County Limerick, Ireland. An artist residency programme situates Irish and international artists in the midst of Askeaton each summer, while thematic exhibitions, publications and events often occur.
Through these methods, over one hundred artists projects have been realised, with the public invited to visit Askeaton to celebrate ‘Welcome to the Neighbourhood’, their annual summer artist-in-residence programme from 15- 27 June.
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Welcome to the Neighbourhood situates Irish and international artists in the midst of Askeaton each summer, discovering new potentials for creative energy, the making of place and innovative ecological thinking. From our community hall to the River Deel, castle ruins, streets and surrounding countryside, Welcome To The Neighbourhood looks to the rich layers of Askeaton’s daily life as its inspiration, as a place of exchange and cultural knowledge.
Internationally, in 2026, Ireland’s Askeaton Contemporary Arts continues a growing relationship with Chicago, presenting a citywide series of exhibitions and public events and bringing together artist-led activities between Ireland and the American Midwest.
‘You see the thing of the thing is is’ by Locky Morris & Liz Vitlin, curated by Mark O’Gorman in collaboration with Met him pike hoses takes continues to show at 400 North Peoria Street until 24 May in Chicago.
Also continuing to celebrate the international community, ‘Aimsir a Chaillfidh’ by Seanie Barron at Good Weather runs at 1524 South Western Avenue until 6 June.
Other events celebrating the festival include a new publication, ‘A Waulking Set: Mediations on the fabric of life’ by Tara Baoth Mooney, Mice Hell and Emily Waszak with Niamh Moriarty.
Waulking is an expression given to the traditional working of woollen fabric, done communally while singing a traditional Gaelic refrain and verse. An almost obsolete practice, there is an intense intimacy involved, with the sharing of voices and handling of textiles together. Pushed, pulled and sung around a group to be brought to life, waulking melodies are rhythmic to the work undertaken, demonstrating both the nature of skilled labour and knowledge of the land.
The artistic practices of Tara Baoth Mooney, Mice Hell and Emily Waszak continue this impetus, and consider the medium of textiles as a channel for communicating comradery, care, and the precariousness of human life. Collectively, they oppose today’s dominant culture of disconnection, exploitation and overconsumption, and propose a return to sharing meditative processes of making, and making-do.
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