IMMA is delighted to present a significant cross-disciplinary installation event Yes, But Do You Care? as part of an evocative body of work exploring the human right to make a bad decision, family care-giving and Ireland’s new capacity legislation.
The piece, made by visual artist Marie Brett working with choreographer/performer Philip Connaughton and members of The Dementia Carers Campaign Network, combines dance and spoken word with drawing, sculptural and video elements plus sound and site response. Materials with metaphoric and symbolic significance were used, including a tonne of salt, timber housing and legislation extracts.
Both artists have accomplished earlier series of compelling work that explore some of life’s more complex issues. Visual artist Marie Brett (Last Breath, Day of the Straws, E.gress) has special interest to human experiences recurrently involving trauma, stigma or social (in)justice, and first met chorographer/performer Philip Connaughton (Assisted Solo, Whack!, Mamafesta Memorialising) when Brett was exhibiting and touring E.gress and Connaughton created a dance response to the piece. During Brett’s IMMA artist in residence, she researched how dementia and brain disease impacts on family carers, attended a Law Society human rights event questioning the complexity of Ireland’s new capacity legislation and family care giving. Brett then invited Connaughton and DCCN members into a process of collaboration as means to creatively explore these complexities, and as the project progressed, advisors in law, arts and human rights also folded into the process.
To visit the ‘Yes, But Do You Care?’ website click here.
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