Composer, performer and vocalist, Jennifer Walshe’s body of work is vast and impressive; a large number of operas and theatrical works include XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!!, an opera for Barbie dolls, and Die Taktik, a commission for the Junge Oper Stuttgart. In 2015, she launched a project crowd sourcing internet based sound with the musician Holly Herndon, and her visual work has been exhibited in the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Project Arts Centre, Dublin and the ICA. Her most recent project, the ongoing Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde, has seen the creation of a fictional history of the musical avant-garde in Ireland, receiving tremendous coverage in press and social media including features on Arena/ RTE1, The Wire Magazine and The Quietus.
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