The gyrl grip is a performance art group established in 1998 by Llewyn Máire and Lisa Newman.
Notable festivals include:
Using video, movement, spoken word, sound sculpture, conceptual and text-based performance, endurance, and experimental music, the gyrl grip explores new possibilities of communicating what is incommunicable.
The themes of the work deal with: issues of oppression, the politics of identity and the influence of power, loss of culture through assimilation, (as seen in "War Pig" and "Hedge School") hybridization of cultures out of the need for survival, political and sexual resistance and exploitation, ("Kobe" performance), obsession and divinity.