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Location: Johnston Suite

This artist conversation will focus on Dutch artist melanie bonajo’s creative practices and immersive installation, When the body says Yes, presented in IMMA’s Baroque Chapel from 26 July. The exhibition seeks to answer the question of whether there is still a place for intimacy in today’s increasingly commercialised and technological world. The central theme of the exhibition is touch: literally, but also representing our relationship to each other and the world around us.

The discussion explores the artist’s interests in non-mainstream communities pushed to the margins of society, either through cultural exclusion or because they do not belong to a normative system. Issues of ethical and empathic coexistence, body politics, equality and alternative forms of perception of the world and oneself are prominent themes of enquiry in bonajo’s work.

This talk offers a pretext to artist led workshops by Skinship Collective on Sat 27 July exploring Consentship (10am) and Collective Body Spells (2pm) at IMMA.

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Location: Lecture Room

Old Models, New praxis – A curatorial approach in times of ecological emergency

Join us for a curator’s talk and discussion with international visiting curator Blanca de la Torre who discusses her research and art interests as appointed Head Curator of the Helsinki Biennial 2025 with Kati Kivinen (Head of exhibitions at HAM Museum, Helsinki), that focuses on ecology, collective action, environmental empowerment sustainable practices.

For this talk Blanca de la Torre explores curating in times of climate emergency – an approach that implies developing projects that are ecological in content, form, and attitude. By embracing artistic practices that are aligned with the sustainability discourses, we will hear more about potential ways to stimulate collective action, and a re-think of cultural processes that can encourage environmental empowerment. de la Torre will introduce some her most innovative methodologies, among them, a series of guidelines and sustainability decalogues created to apply socioecological practices throughout the life cycle of the projects.

This talk is presented at part of the initiative IRELAND INVITES organised by IMMA, Hugh Lane Gallery and Culture Ireland

Location: Lecture Room
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Guest curators Sara Greavu and Ciara Philips convene a panel discussion with former members of the 1980s radical film collective Derry Film and Video Workshop, whose work explored overlapping political tensions, radical self-representation and resistance and offered a nuanced depiction of these complex forces at work in the specific context of Derry. A discussion with filmmakers Anne Crilly (Mother Ireland, 1988) and Margo Harkin (Hush-A-Bye Baby, 1990) will be followed by a critical response by Isobel Harbison (Goldsmiths University, UK) centred around the DFVW film Stop Strip Searching (1984).

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Thurs 15 Aug, 6pm – 7pm
Location: People’s Pavilion
Free, All welcome. Drop in.

To coincide with Heritage Week 2024, which takes place form 17 to 25 August, IMMA welcomes back members of D8 Green Bridge Forum and Common Ground for a Biodiversity talk and discussion, with guest speaker Lorraine Bull (Biodiversity officer for Fingal County Council) on Thursday 15 August at 6pm. This session will focus on the creation and sustainability of blue/green corridors which are present between the Liffey, the Camac and the Grand Canal, and why they are of value to the city.

Sat 17 August, 2pm
Meeting Point: The People’s Pavilion
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‘The Islands Biodiversity Walk-Talk’ begins at IMMA and continues onto the War Memorial Gardens/Island Bridge. This will be led by members of the D8 Green Bridge Forum and will take approximately 1.5 hours.

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Location: Garden Galleries
Free, All Welcome. Drop in.

Join Sara Damaris Muthi, Curatorial Fellow, IMMA for an in-gallery discussion of Redux: Contemporary Irish sculptors at Venice, featuring the work of Siobhán Hapaska, Eva Rothschild, and Niamh O’Malley.
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Location: Johnston Suite
Free, booking required. Bookings for this event will be available from Friday, 9 August 2024.

Join guests Brenda Moore-McCann (author, writer, art historian) and Christina Kennedy (Head of Collections, IMMA) for a conversation that draws on their ongoing research projects on the work of Brian O’Doherty. The topic of their discussion focusses on La Casa Dipinta/The Painted House Museum – one of the most extensive examples of Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland’s unique wall paintings and signature Rope Drawing installations, recorded for the first time in this beautifully presented publication.

This conversation is followed by a Drinks Reception and Book Launch that also marks the recent donation by the author of her archives to the IMMA Collection that significantly expands its holdings of Brian O’Doherty’s work.

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Location: Matheson Creativity Hub
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Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons and Dr Emma Campbell present a public seminar on Reproductive Citizenship via provocations in response to the installation An Dún by Array Collective. Six artists, academics and activists will be asked to respond to the installation in advance of the seminar, where they will perform/discuss/unnerve our roles and responsibilities within a complex, evolving notion of citizenship.

After which, participating members of the public will respond in a creative workshop to the installation and provocations. The seminar hopes to develop resolutions or further questions about reproductive labour, citizenship and self-determination in a contemporary Shared Island.

Presented in Partnership with REPROCIT, Trinity College Dublin, School of Social Work and Social Policy.

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