AS IF
Live Performance
David Donohoe
& David Lacey

David Donohoe and David Lacey have a longstanding practice of performance, improvisation, composition and recording. Utilising resonant metals, wood, objects and electronics, their music foregrounds space & texture, gesture & silence, flow & discontinuity. They have released two albums as a duo, Noctules (Fort Evil Fruit, 2021) and Obsequio (Verz, 2022) and are currently mixing a new album as a trio with Phil Maguire. This performance sees Donohoe and Lacey in free-improvisation within the gallery space, responding to and expanding upon the sonic and visual language of  the current exhibition AS IF.

David Donohoe is a composer, recordist, artist, performer and improviser. His work operates at the intersection of instrumentation, synthesis, field-recording and processing. His performance practice involves scored works, electroacoustic presentation and solo/collaborative improvisation. He has released on D1 Recordings, Flaming Pines, Dinzu Artefacts, Verz Imprint, Mille Plateaux, Force- Inc, Fällt, Minimise, Fort Evil Fruit and Studiomime.

David Lacey is a musician from Dublin, working at the intersection of improvisation and composition. He uses percussion, objects, recordings, cassettes and crude electronics, as well as making tape compositions. He has released music on Fort Evil Fruit, Verz, Falt, Confront and numerous other labels. As an improviser, he worked with musicians such as Rhodri Davies, Keith Rowe, Annette Krebs and Derek Bailey. Regular collaborators include Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, David Donohoe, Rob Casey & Aonghus McEvoy. Recent releases include collaborations with Patrick Farmer, Susan Geaney, Fergus Kelly and David Donohoe.

Film stills courtesy Peter Maybury, performance within Katherine Sankey’s AN ATOM BOMB IN EACH MORSEL OF LIFE, The Lab Gallery, 2023.

AS IF
Live Performance
David Donohoe
& David Lacey

Date
Sat 7 March 2026

Time
2.30 to 3.15pm

Free Event – Booking required →