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Exhibition curators Yuko Hasegawa, Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Rachel Thomas, Senior Curator; Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, invite a selected panel of artists to discuss their featured work and commissions in the exhibition Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age. The relationship between desire, intimacy, politics, technology and utopianism will be explored within the realms of contemporary art practice. The artists taking part in this discussion include Genieve Figgis, Seiha Kurosawa, Tschabalala Self and Eddie Peake

Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age is the third in a trilogy of major international group exhibitions devised by IMMA to explore universal themes and their representation through art from the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2015, the first of these exhibitions, What We Call Love, From Surrealism to Now, looked at how notions of love have evolved in art, and in 2017, the second, As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, examined how the spiritual endures in our everyday lives.

This talk is the first in a series of Culture Night events taking place at IMMA on Friday 20th September that includes the exhibition preview, drinks reception and music.

Desire: A Revision is proudly supported by Kildare Village.


About Speakers

Partcipating artists: Genieve Figgis, Seiha Kurosawa, Tschabalala Self and Eddie Peake .

Rachel Thomas is the Chair of long-term planning and Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions at IMMA, Dublin. Thomas is a Leonardo fellow at Trinity College Dublin, contributor to the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World programme at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the European judge for the Rise Art Prize for young artists. Thomas has curated various exhibitions including solo surveys of Nan Goldin, Etel Adnan, Hélio Oiticica, Haroon Mirza, Tino Sehgal, the American Fluxus and feminist artist Eleanor Antin, Thomas Ruff, Karen Kilimnik, Margherita Manzelli, Willie Doherty, Sophie Calle and Mark Manders. She initiated and organized with Philippe Parreno the seminal group show of post relational aesthetics .all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae (2007), artists included Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, Carsten Höller, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Garrett Phelan.

Yuko Hasegawa is Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2016 – present) and Professor of Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts (2016 – present). She was a Chief Curator and Founding Artistic Director (1999 – 2006) of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006-2016). She is Artistic Director of Inujima Art House Project (2011-present). Her recent exhibitions include Intimate Distance: Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection (MoCo), FUKAMI –une plongée dans l’esthétique japonaise at Hotel Salmon de Rothschild, Paris(2018, Saudade : Unmemorable Place in Time at Fousun Foundation, Shanghai,(2018), Japanorama: NEW VISION ON ART SINCE 1970 at Centre Pompidou-Metz (2017), Kishio Suga: Situations at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016), New Sensorium Exiting from Failures of Modernization at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2016), Tokyo Art Meeting VI “TOKYO” -Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2015-2016).Yuko Hasegawa has worked for various kinds of biennale projects, she was a member of the Asian Art Advisory Board at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2008 – 2012), currently an advisory committee member of the Rockbund Art Museum (2014-present), an international advisory board member of The Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), 2014-present)and an international jury of the Nasher Prize Nasher Sculpture Center (2015-present).


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Artist & Curator Conversation: Desire: A Revision Soundcloud

Desire: A Revision is proudly supported by Kildare Village.

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