gart

gart (hospitality as gaeilge) is a collaboration between El Reid-Buckley and Danny Brennan. The artists independently have backgrounds in creative writing, socially-engaged art, community organising and workshop facilitation—working through a wide variety of mediums including zine making, curation, film and digital art-making. Reid-Buckley and Brennan look to make art as a means of building communities that challenge and interrogate power structures.

As a collaboration, gart seeks to explore ways we can build new kinds of togetherness inside the fractured shell of the world. gart merges critical (queer) theories with the practices and praxis of mutual aid and DIY cultures. This collaborative practice has spanned many mediums including visual art, literature, culinary arts, and even parties.

Danny Brennan is a Limerick-based writer and collaborative artist working across disciplines including film, radio, theatre and participatory art. Brennan dreams through archives working with spectres of the past and future. Brennan also experiments with various methodologies for collaborative storytelling. Outside of the arts, Brennan works in further education, as well as a facilitator and organiser for a number of community groups in Limerick City.

El Reid-Buckley is a writer, curator, sociologist and community organiser from Limerick City. Reid-Buckley often works with traditionally non-complementary modes, and puts 'oppositional' texts, theories and techniques in conversation with each other to seek out the productivity and pleasure that comes with tensions. Their artistic and academic interests are broadly focused on genders and sexualities, and how these aspects of identity are shaped by the politics of language, memory, and space.

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Poster for an online workshop with screen service, 2024, Courtesy of the artists.