IMMA is delighted to announce its Summer School, taking place from 10 to 14 June 2019. This week-long intensive programme, featuring talks and workshops by a range of national and international artists, theorists and critics, will focus on the connections between art and politics. Applications are invited from students of all ages and disciplines enrolled in an educational institution in Ireland in 2019.
The Summer School will take place against the backdrop of IMMA’s exhibitions in 2019, which includes the work of Colombian artist Doris Salcedo Acts of Mourning, (April – July, 2019); work from Les Levine’s Resurrection (Feb – May, 2019); and a retrospective of the work of Derek Jarman, PROTEST!, (Nov 2019 – Feb 2020).
The Summer School will also be informed by a number of questions surrounding the relationship between art and politics. It takes place alongside the delivery of the first phase of IMMA|texts, the museum’s new initiative for critical and scholarly publishing, with which it shares a number of key concerns:
What is political art?
What forms can political art take?
What is the relationship between art and politics?
Can art be non-political?
Such concerns are of increasing relevance and significance today, given the troubled political climate globally. The IMMA Summer School will attempt to explore, through discussion and practice, some of their ramifications.