“Step 5 [Have you no homes…]” — the latest iteration from the Step performance series pertaining to concepts of home, cultural identity, faith and impulse — at Diverse Universe Festival, hosted by the radical Non Grata group @nongrataperformance. This years festival curated by Cai Qing, titled “Rebirth through Fire” features a diverse international lineup of live art practitioners. The main event happens in Pärnu with the final day taking place in Tallinn at KUMU Estonian Art Museum as part of its 20th anniversary.

Full Program: https://performance.ee

Festival artists: Cheng Li (China), Du Yinghong (China), Gao Ya (Inner Mongolia), Eduardo Cardoso Amato (Brazil), Han Xiao (China), Anand Jaiswal (India), Yu Xiaoping 14 (China), Ilkka Pitkänen (Finland), Alan Schacher (Australia), Paul Regan (Ireland), Josef Ka (Finland), Lady Gaby (Australia / Germany), Ursula Maria Probst (Austria), Yi Mei (China), Cai Qing (Singapore), Akie (Japan), Make Like A Tree (Ukraine), Ensemble Rooluulend (Estonia), Roomet Jakapi, Jaan Luulur Malin, Leonora Palu, Indrek Palu, Indrek Kornel.

Supported by Culture Ireland @cultureireland as part of Cultúr 2026, Ireland’s culture programme for its Presidency of the Council of the European Union. #Cultur2026#IRE2026EU #EU2026#nongrataperformance

Monitor

Paul Regan & Marianne Marcote will be performing a new sonic work “Monitor” at Starptelpa Performance Festival Riga, 29.05.26, 840-920pm, St. Saviour’s Anglican Church. The collaborative sonic duet “Monitor” is “…a ritual in interdimensional communication, an active type of silent keening, a conversation with the unseen and unheard, tritones, polar bear butoh…”

“Riga Performance Festival STARPTELPA* [May 25-31] is an annual international art and culture event focused primarily on performance art, yet also supporting cross-disciplinary and experimental synthesis of performative arts. The aim of the festival is to strengthen the position of performance art as a sovereign form of art, fighting against its constant ghettoization in the arts and culture ecosystem. In the increasingly alienated contemporary society, a dialogic and communication-driven art should be seen as a powerful tool not only enriching and diversifying the arts field, but also providing an opportunity to expose audiences to thought-provoking and empathy-encouraging experiences.” @starptelpa festival is curated by Laine Kristberga @laine_kristberga

Supported by Culture Ireland

Artists: MIA-STELLA AASLAID (EST), INESE BERZINA (LV), NIKS BERZINŠ (LV), JOHN G. BOEHME (CAN), FLAME BOYANZE (EST), BUTÕ LAB (LV), LAUREL JAY CARPENTER (US), ERNESTS VALTS CIRCENIS (LV), KATERINA DEMENTEVA (LV), KASPARS EGLÍTIS (LV), ELİZA EIKERTE (LV), STEPHANIE FELBER (GER), ANDRIS FREIBERGS (LV), GUNDEGA GRAUDINA (LV), MRS BE & ELISABETH EINSIEDLER (GER), SYLWIA HANFF/LIMENBUTOH (PL), HUR HUR (FIN), IK SEJA (LV), KAINULAINEN & LATVA (FIN), AGNESE KIVADE (LV), MAGNUS LOGI KRISTINSSON (ICE/FIN), ROCKY MEANEY (IRL), INGA MELBERGA (LV), MAILO MÊNESS (LV), MADAME NIELSEN, SIMON TOLDAM ROSENGREN, SIMON FORCHAMMER & MORTEN SKYT KOLBAK (DK), MARIA PÄÄKKÖNEN & INGEBORG ANDERSSKOG (FIN/NO), ALEKSIS RAMANIS (LV), PAUL REGAN & MARIANNE MARCOTE (IRL), LILIBETH CUENCA RASMUSSEN (DK), IRMAK SAGIR (US/TUR), ALAN SCHACHER (AUS), ANNIJA SPRIVULE (LV), KRISTIÃNA ŠUKSTA (LV), GABI TOMÉ (CAN), LISETTE-MARIE VIILUP (EST), EMMANUELLE WACKERLÉ (UK), WILLEM WILHELMUS (FIN).

Photo: Ben Morrison @benj-morrison

…and with your spirit, 2

“…and with your spirit, 2″, Future Ritual: ALMANAC, Asylum Chapel, London (UK). 2025.
Still from videography by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi.

Step 2

Step 2, Live Art Tour 10, RF Rue Française, Plateforme créative pour l’art, Paris (FR).
Photo: Marianne Marcote. Supported by Culture Ireland.

Nothing 2

Nothing 2, The Body: What is the responsibility of performance artists to genocide?
House of Annetta, London (UK), 2025. Curated by Veronica Cordova de la Rosa.

Nothing

Nothing, Sin Objeto/Intet Objek, Metronomen, Copenhagen (DK), 2025.
Curated by David Sebastián Lopez Restrepo of Performance Køkkenet.
Supported by The Embassy of Ireland in Copenhagen.

Dispensation 4, Rīga [Hagiography of a Latter-day Perambulation]

Dispensation 4, Rīga [Hagiography of a Latter-day Perambulation], collaboration with Peter Baren, Ave Sol, Riga (LV), 2025. Photo: Yama Kowa.

Mass Underground Movement

Mass Underground Movement, Sofia Underground, Krasno Selo Municipal Art Centre, Sofia (BG), 2025.

Step 2

Step 2, Bobbina Cultural Space, Sofia Underground (BG), 2024.
Supported by Culture Ireland.

Step 2

Step 2, Immersive [Live Art Tour 8] curated by Cai Qing.
Grace Exhibition Space, New York, 2023. Supported by Culture Ireland. Photo: Miao Jiaxin.

Where to start where to end

Where to start where to end, Convergence, Live Art Ireland, 2023.
Photo: Sandra Corrigan-Breathnach.
Where to start where to end, Convergence, Live Art Ireland, 2023.
Photo: Sandra Corrigan-Breathnach.

Dispensation [St. Paul]

Dispensation [St. Paul] performance as part of Uprooting Tallaght, inaugral performance art festival by Rua Red Dublin, August 2023. Photography: Juliette Rowland.

SuperNato V

Supernato V, ongoing performance intervention study, Lviv, Ukraine, Nov 2022. Photography: Andriy Helytovych.

“…Yes, and also whoever has just one soul
To call his own in this world!
And he who never managed it should slink
Weeping from this union!
All creatures drink of joy
At nature’s breasts.
All the Just, all the Evil
Follow her trail of roses.
Kisses she gave us and grapevines,
A friend, proven in death.
Ecstasy was given to the worm
And the cherub stands before God.
Gladly, as His suns fly
through the heavens’ grand plan
Go on, brothers, your way,
Joyful, like a hero to victory.
Be embraced, Millions!
This kiss to all the world!
Brothers, above the starry canopy
There must dwell a loving Father.
Are you collapsing, millions?
Do you sense the creator, world?
Seek him above the starry canopy!
Above stars must He dwell.”

Friedrich Schiller 1785, adapted by Beethoven for the final movement of his 9th Symphony “Ode to Joy”.

Extant 2

Performance video produced under ECC Performance Art program.

SuperNato IV

SuperNato IV, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Tallinn (EE), 2022.
SuperNato III performance at The Bronze Soldier, Tallinn Military Cemetery, Estonia, Oct 2022.
SuperNato III performance at The Bronze Soldier, Tallinn Military Cemetery, Estonia, Oct 2022.
“Joy, beautiful spark of Divinity [or: of gods], Daughter of Elysium, We enter, drunk with fire, Heavenly one, thy sanctuary! Thy magic binds again. What custom strictly divided; All people become brothers, Where thy gentle wing abides.” etc. Friedrich Schiller 1785, adapted by Beethoven for the final movement of his 9th Symphony “Ode to Joy”.

Reconsecration

Validiction

Validiction 2, Overlapping Kassel, Documenta 15, Waldau, Kassel (DE), 2022. Photo: István Kovács. Supported by Culture Ireland.

SuperNato

SuperNato II, Karlwiese, Staatspark Karlsaue, Kassel [DE], performed as part of Overlapping Kassel curated by Cai Qing, 2022. Photo: István Kovács. Supported by Culture Ireland.
SuperNato, performed at Fredericianum as part of Overlapping Kassel [DE]. Photo: Alberto Gerosa

Vater

Performed Vater at Poem of Pearls [participative installation by Birthe Blauth] St. Elisabeth Catholic Church, Kassel during Documenta 15 as part of Overlapping Kassel curated by Cai Qing. Supported by Culture Ireland. Photo: Yeon Jeong.
Vater, performed at Moving Art @ Königs-Galerie, Kassel [DE], performed as part of Overlapping Kassel curated by Cai Qing, 2022. Photo: István Kovács. Supported by Culture Ireland.

Far

“Far” performed at PAB Open 2022 in Bergen Norway at the historical Villa Terminus building from April 1-3, 2022. Supported by Culture Ireland. performanceartbergen.no


Participating artists at PAB Open 2022
Jan-Egil Finne, Lizlot Frydenlund, Frauke Materlik, Kjartan Andersen, Rita Maria Muñoz Farias, Nayara Leite, Sofie Hviid Vinther, Derek Sargent, Astrid Haugesen, Liv Reidun Brakstad, Franzisca Siegrist, Locus – Tanja Thorjussen & Thale Fastvold (duo) , Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, Lea Opheim Basch & Solveig Laland Mohn (duo), Kjersti Austdal, Johan Urban Bergquist, Gisle Nataas & Clare Marie Bailey (duo), Guro Berger & Aksel Høgenhaug(duo), Den Lokale Venneforening – Sophie Barth & Katarina Caspersen (duo), Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh, Evamaria Schaller, Vincenzo Fiore Marrese, Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, Alexandra Holownia, Paul Regan, Charlotta Grimfjord Cederblad, Jordina Ros & Pere Estadella (duo), Diane Dwyer, Katherine Leung, Dominique, Siavash Kheirkhah, HINANNAN – Lars Jonsson & Line Rolf (duo), Switch – Didde Borup Larsen & Frida Retz (duo), Marit Tunestveit Dyre, Carol Stampone, Mia Maria Norum Robsahm and Kristen Rønnevik.

Validiction

Performance Tutor at ecoSuites Art Residency, Tristinika, Sithonia Greece, 2022.

Validiction, performance at 2022 ecoSuites Art Residency, Sithonia [GR], photo: Alex A. Tsolakis.
Photo: Alex A. Tsolakis.
Photo: Alex A. Tsolakis.
Photo: Avery Thompson.
“On in-between” [The Liminal Space] Paul Regan performance film commissioned by Dublin City Council for Culture Night 2020. Soundtrack: Daz Disley.
Performing Inclined, 5hr durational action at Venice International Performance Art Week CO-CREATION LIVE FACTORY Dissenting Bodies Marking Time, Palazzo Mora European Cultural Centre, Venice (IT), 2020. Photo: Jacques Martens.
Collaboration with Zoncy, Shall we Meet Again, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE), 2019. Photo: Maayan Danoch.

As part of her fellowship, Zoncy has arranged collaborative encounters. In this duet with Paul Regan, developed at Akademie Schloss Solitude, the artists explore prevalent threads of the legacies of trauma, body and the self and the shared universal path of the performer.

Temporary artistic communities, as any fruitful relationship, can only function if we apply what in German language is called Wertschätzung, literally translated into ‘treasuring one’s value,’ that is to recall the inner position of one toward the other on a base of respect, esteem and appreciation. VestAndPage [Andrea Pagnes & Verena Stenke]. 

The action of performance is a meeting; a temporary determination of poetry, body and intention.

Zoncy has worked in performance art advocacy in ending violence against women; challenging Myanmar’s political ground through artistic discourse and performative encounters exploring self and »they« [the other].

Borders; differences, barriers, definitions, he/she/they. The »temporary artistic community« crosses and walks the same path with steps and strides of resilience, vulnerability and rebellion. Embracing the collaborative mission through trust — performative actions can bypass time; rendering barbs of wire to rusted dust in the wind. However, the body never forgets.

Performance artist Paul Regan has worked with themes of religious oppression in Ireland and more recently, with issues of Islamophobia in Western Europe; in particular pertaining to restrictions directed against women; e.g. the ban on wearing of face-coverings. Through live performance, he stages site-specific interventions which question complexities of male/female East/West imposed hypocrisies.

Study for Oil [performance work in progress], 2019-2021.
Home, 2020, colour photograph, 2020.
Still from Talhiya Lapse 9, performance, Art Basel Miami, 2018.
Talhiya Lapse13 [Service and pseudo-service under the sovereignty of the good principle, or: Religion and Pfaffentum], Performensk, Zair Azgur Museum, Minsk Belarus, 2019. Photo: Vaida Tamoševičiūtė.