Colm Keady-Tabbal is an Irish Lebanese artist based in Dublin and New York. Their work addresses the aesthetics and politics of memorialization, propaganda and other forms of knowledge production.
Working across installation, moving image, sound, performance and writing their practice engages with modalities of psychological warfare, control systems and the politics of public and private space, often appropriating the forms and language of existing media and infrastructure. Their architectural and environmental interventions operate across multiple geographies and timescales, deploying rumours, abstraction and para-fiction to examine sites of clandestine experiments in artistic, industrial, and military contexts.
Their work has been exhibited and performed the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IRCAM festival, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Wallach Gallery, Cork Centre for Architectural Education and Galway Arts Centre. They will participate in the 41st EVA International Biennale. They received an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts.
January – December 2025
Dwell Here offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling. IMMA encourages reflection across the following themes to consider geographical, historical, political and cultural concepts of Ireland as a starting point to expand and connect international contexts through similarities and differences:
Technologies of Peace – to consider commemorative landscapes and memories of peace (as a dream, movement, or value) while generating perspectives on sustainable coexistence.
The Irish Paradigm – Welcomes artistic research that creates intimacy and connections, while celebrating the perceived agility and freedoms of operating on the periphery. As a small island on the edge of Europe, Ireland often has a challenging relationship with ‘the centre’.
The Museum as a Site of Vibration – consider how the museum and site can create new vibrations and rhythms within the built legacy of empire. How can museums make visible cultural shifts, including erased, censored or marginalised histories, as well as sustainability, planetary care, sharing and hospitality.