Join us and travel from instinct to intention using your moving signature: a short physical phrase that carries your body memory, your thoughts, your energy.
This four month-long project begins in the galleries of IMMA where you will take part in a series of Saturday afternoon slow-art tours designed to provoke your senses and deepen your connection with selected works from the museum’s permanent Collection. Then, guided by choreographer and filmmaker Jonathan Mitchell, you’ll respond physically to an artwork that resonates with you to capture your own moving signature, your unique trace.
These moving signatures will be filmed and shared as a series of citizen reviews through IMMA. They will also become the building blocks of a new dance work, co-created during Sunday sessions at CoisCéim Studio. This collective response to the artworks will be performed at IMMA in November and captured in a short dance film.
This collaborative movement-based project is deliberately slow and explores how our lived experience, intergenerational exchange, and creative expression can open up new forms of agency, presence and participation in the museum.
Together, we ask: how might we expand our understanding of health to include the spaces we occupy, the histories we inherit, and our relationships with the natural world? Through movement, we respond not only to the artworks on display, but also to the museum itself, its architecture, its history, and its role as a public space – engaging with place in ways that are grounded, situated, and deeply felt in the body.
This programme is suitable for adults of all ages. No movement, art or museum experience necessary!