Maïa Nunes is an Irish Trinidadian artist and sound healer, currently based in Wicklow. Her practice is born directly out of her lived experience of being mixed-race and of multi-cultural heritage, exploring the impact of colonial histories both in Ireland and the Caribbean. Through her practice Maïa seeks to better understand inter-generational trauma and the ways that people preserve culture, resist erasure and thrive against all odds. Her work seeks to repair relationships to the past, discovering old and creating new pathways for healing and liberation.
More recently, she has been cultivating an embodied, site-responsive, land-based research praxis – creating pathways of reconnection to self, community and place. Maïa’s interdisciplinary work spans voice and movement, sound and music composition, textile and sculpture, film and live performance, embracing the intersecting terrains of visual art, music, and live art. Her art blurs and complicates the distinctions between territories as one of its core functions, exploring ambiguity as a site of transformative potential.
Visit Maïa Nune’s website here
17 February – 22 March 2026
Practice: Audio / Craft / Installation / Film & Video / Multidisciplinary Practice / Performance / Sculpture / Socially Engaged Practice / Visual Arts
Research Focus
While on residency Maïa would like to explore the notion of convalescence; time spent recovering from an illness. Investigating pace of recovery, recovery as an act of retrieval of something that has been lost due to injury, and the wound itself. She is deeply interested in the subtle and hidden vibrations that shape human experience.
More about the Dwell Here Residency
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.