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Join an open session of Performance Arts with Bbeyond in Art Gallery 4 of the Ulster Museum amidst the backdrop of the BEUYS: 50 Years Later: Action, Society, Performance and Change exhibition. Everyone is welcome – no experience needed, just bring your curiosity, openness, and willingness to play!
Bbeyond is an arts organisation, based in Northern Ireland that focuses on Performance Art. Our membership includes over 40 multidisciplined artists from many locations. We are involved in local, national and international projects.
Bbeyond is committed to promoting the practice of performance art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. Our aim is to raise people’s consciousness of live/performance art as being integral to the world in and around us, inspiring reflection and enriching lived experience.
We host artists of international reputation throughout the performance art world and encourage newer artists to experience performance art practices for themselves.
Bbeyond encourages greater access to and appreciation of this visually based art form, through facilitating modes of active private/public participation, allowing people from all sectors of society, not just the traditional arts, to experience and enjoy performance art directly.
In 2025 we are celebrating 50 years since Alistair MacLennahan stepped onto the streets of Belfast in 1975 with students from Belfast School of Art to perform Live as part of the Belfast Festival at Queens – now the Belfast International Festival.
About the BEUYS exhibition: On the 18th November 1974, the German artist Joseph Beuys gave a performance lecture, or ‘Action’, in the Ulster Museum Fine Art Gallery. As was his practice, he illustrated the lecture on blackboards that have been in the museum’s collection since that day.
Beuys proposed the idea of art and creativity being at the centre of all aspects of society. Presenting this as his concept of ‘social sculpture’ and inciting the potential for mass societal change through creative thinking.
The lecture became a key moment in the history of Belfast art. This exhibition takes the opportunity to look at the ideas discussed and their impact on the creative community of Belfast over the last 50 years.
In order to bring these ideas into the present the museum has worked with current practising Belfast-based artists. Taking the two primary focuses at the heart of Beuys work – performance and drawing.
The BEUYS exhibition runs in Ulster Museum Art Gallery 4 until 18 May 2025.
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