Listening to Intervals — A Correspondence
Location: Lecture Room
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We invite Sharon Phelan, Dublin-based artist working across performance, installation, writing and composition, to present Listening to Intervals an artists’ response/talk that explores her multi-disciplinary interests in relational modes of listening and contexts of place as it relates to Tarek Atoui’s exhibition at IMMA.

Listening to Intervals is a long-distance correspondence between Sharon Phelan and Hasan Hujairi (artist, composer and writer, working with the music department, Sharjah Art Foundation) woven around personal narratives, methods of listening, senses of place, and sound as interstice. Taking the distance/difference between them as the very line of departure, the lecture draws on conversations, concepts and compositions in response to Tarek Atoui’s nomadic methodology, to pay attention to the gaps, pauses and silences that oscillate in between. Here we are invited to embrace listening as a poetics of relations, improvisations, and hesitations. More details here.

Location: The People’s Pavilion
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Building on past editions of Trans Joy and Trans Imaginings, ShoutOut and IMMA Talks present a roundtable discussion on the power of performance to bring trans stories to life. Bringing together a collection of Irish trans and queer thinkers and performers, Trans Pride: Visions will read between the lines and look closer into the gaps for bold, creative perspectives on trans experience.

Our panellists will explore the possibilities and limitations of language and creative practice in articulating transness – and share how performance art, spoken word and theatre offer emerging opportunities to erode traditional borders of representation. We’ll discuss the questions facing trans performers and creators today – from collaboration to censorship, the conversation between personal and political, and the horizons yet to come.

Moderated by Ruadhán Ó Críodáin, Executive Director, ShoutOut, Ireland’s largest provider of LGBTQ+ inclusive education. Participating artists include Venus Patel, Pea Dinneen, Felispeaks and Lyónn Wolf. The programme includes a roundtable discussion and live performance. More details here.