Lara Gallagher
She/Her
Lara Gallagher is an Irish sound artist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist working across a number of mediums including interactive installation art, live electronic performance and theatre. She plays the saxophone and the piano, performing interdisciplinary improvisatory work, composes works for ensembles and orchestras, presents spatial installations and works across an array of artistic mediums from dance to children's theatre.
She has performed and shared her work in various venues and locations across Ireland, the UK, France, Germany and China. Having graduated from Music and Drama Studies at Trinity College Dublin in April 2019, she undertook a masters in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste in Berlin where she received first class honours. She has been commissioned amongst others by Crash Ensemble, Kirkos Ensemble, lovemusic collective, Glasshouse, Chatham Quartet, Offspring Ensemble and has presented work at New Music Dublin, Lightmoves Festival and Music Current Festival. Her frequent, notable theatre collaborations include projects with Superpaua, Immersive LDN, Taste in Your Mouth, Sugarglass theatre and the Lir Academy. Her latest artistic venture has seen the creation of the Islo Collective, a multi medium art collective seeking to advocate for female and gender queer artists establishing a position at the forefront of innovative interdisciplinary performance and artistic production.
Lara strives to open strands of communication between performing and listening entities, facilitating authentic expression, response and collective engagement. She prioritises collaboration, cultural exchange, community and multiplicity. A significant portion of her practice engages with emerging technologies examining human extension and interdisciplinarity. Lara posits sound as an inherently queer medium intrinsically tied to identity by being an involuntary solvent of the self. She seeks to critique the position of the ‘other’, deconstructing binary frameworks and gendered space. Lara invites audiences to connect with authentic versions of themselves, situating their voices within a space that embraces the experimental and the strange.