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Join us for the second month of Summer at IMMA ☀️ Swipe to discover some of our July highlights!

Don’t miss ‘Salarium’, by Ruth E Lyons. ‘Salarium’ includes an outdoor screening of Lyon's debut film 'The Sea Inside Us' (2025) alongside a performance of the film’s score and an artist-led children’s workshop.

To celebrate Trans and Intersex Pride Week, join ShoutOut and special guests for ‘Trans Pride: Visions’, an evening exploring the agency and power of performance in bringing trans stories to life.

As part of Dublin by Dusk, join us for ‘Making Irelands’, an insightful film screening and in-conversation event with artists Marianne Keating and Yvonne McGuinness.

Take part in Turbante-se, a hands-on workshop exploring the history and everyday practice of headwraps across Afro-Atlantic cultures.

This month also sees the launch of our new Quiet Sessions. On the last Wednesday of each month, the gallery will open from 10am–11.30am in a calm, supportive environment for neurodivergent visitors and anyone looking for a quieter museum experience. Enjoy ‘Art as Agency’ at your own pace, with gallery staff on hand to support.

Across the month, visitors can also join our In the Moment art and mindfulness workshops, Gelli plate monoprinting for kids, Dwell Here Open Studios, Biodiversity tours of the IMMA grounds, Yoga, and Music in the Courtyard.

💫 Explore the full Summer at IMMA programme at imma.ie

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So glad I got to catch the very last day of the NCAD MFA Show in Rua Red Tallaght. The work from the artists absolutely owned the space, rising to the vast height in the space with confidence, clever curation and respectful collaboration to make all the diverse work sing. Well done to all the artists, an amazing and ambitious showcase. I don’t have the instagram accounts of the full group but here is a few… @ncad_dublin @rua_red @ncad_mfa_ @durcansarah @monikacrowley @odonnellartist_melissa @eilo8 @we_cant_rewind_gone_too_far

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A fantastic and inspirational day at NCAD OPACITIES: Seminar, workshop and screening: Decolonial, Materialist and Ecological media practices.
Opacities brought together practitioners to consider Édouard Glissant’s decolonial idea of ‘opacity’ in relation to small scale media processes.

Organised by the @frugalmediaresearchgroup , the seminar was chaired by Jessica Foley, with presentations by Radek Przedpelski, Chloe Brenan, Sarah Durcan & Clodagh Assata Boyce. Followed by a wonderful key-note presentation and Q&A by theorist and curator Laura U. Marks whose work engages with media art and philosophy, with a particular focus on small-footprint media.

This seminar was followed by an evening screening of Manthia Diawara’s film Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation [2010]

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@frugalmediaresearchgroup Spring Seminar Opacities (booking now) will feature a screening of Manthia Diawara’s film Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation [2010] a film created from a series of conversations which take place on a transatlantic voyage which provide an accessible view into Glissant’s thoughts and beliefs on his own theories. The seminar itself will explore Glissant’s ideas of relation, opacity and creolization in relation to decolonial, materialist and ecological paradigms embedded in post-digital media practices and cultures. This screening has been facilitated by @ncad_dublin through the Alexander Street Academic Video Online database. With special thanks to Katy Milligan for her support. image of philosopher edouard glissant sitting by a window on a ship

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opacities: an anthotype workshop on Tuesday 6 May and seminar and screening on Wednesday 7 May @ncad_dublin - both events are free & open to all - book through Eventbrite links in bio - Our Spring seminar opacities brings together practitioners to consider Édouard Glissant’s decolonial idea of ‘opacity’ in relation to small scale media processes. Taking the anthotype process as a departure point, the seminar will explore Glissant’s ideas of relation, opacity and creolization in relation to decolonial, materialist and ecological paradigms embedded in post-digital media practices and cultures. opacities investigates ideas of opacity and transparency in relation to small-scale & small file media supports.

Convened by the Frugal Media Research group, the seminar will be chaired by Jessica Foley, with presentations by Radek Przedpelski, Chloe Brenan, Sarah Durcan & Clodagh Assata Boyce. We will be joined for a key-note by theorist and curator Laura U. Marks whose work engages with media art and philosophy, with a particular focus on small-footprint media.

This seminar will be followed by an evening screening of Manthia Diawara’s film Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation [2010] a film created from a series of conversations which take place on a transatlantic voyage which provide an accessible view into Glissant’s thoughts and beliefs on his own theories.

The anthotype workshop using local plant material is hosted in collaboration with NCAD’s Field facility and eco-practitioners Karen Browett, Melissa O’Brien and Sophie Behal. Opacities is presented by the Frugal Media Research Group at NCAD as part of their Foraging Media initiative and supported by NCAD Research Seed funding.

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LAST DAYS: Periodical Review 14—A Language to Shout In
Exhibition closes this Saturday, 25th January 2025

Gallery hours:
12–6pm, Wednesday – Saturday

Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) is a long-running curatorial project which sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland. Intended as a space for critical appraisal and consolidation of ideas and knowledge, the aim through each subsequent edition is to facilitate and encourage new readings, collaboration, crossover and debate. Not a group exhibition per se, Periodical Review is a discursive action, with the gallery presented as a journal, a magazine-like layout of artworks in dialogue.

The exhibition title ‘A Language to Shout In’ is taken from the accompanying essay by Diana Bamimeke, recipient of the 2024 PPS/PVA Visual Art Writing Commission, presented in partnership with @pva_journal.

For more information see link in bio.

Work featured: 'The Invisibles' by Sarah Durcan, 2023
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ID: Screen mounted on wall showing footage of hands flipping through a book with medieval-style imagery of people walking through a forest. Pair of headphones hanging on wall to the right of the TV. Door on the right with view of Pallas courtyard through its window.

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Announcing the artists! Periodical Review 14—A Language to Shout In

Basil Al-Rawi, Kian Benson Bailes, Ceara Conway, Sarah Durcan, Farouk858, Shane Hynan, Sarah Long, Samir Mahmood, Riki Matsuda, Yvonne McGuinness, NAMACO (Han Hogan and Donal Fullam), Yuri Pattison, Amanda Rice, Sonia Shiel, Laura Skehan, Pádraig Spillane, Frank Sweeney, Anne Tallentire, Kathy Tynan, Amna Walayat

Selected by Miguel Amado, Valeria Ceregini, Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy

Preview: 6–8pm, Friday 6th December 2024

Gallery hours:
12–6pm, Wednesday – Saturday,
7th December 2024 – 25th January 2025
(Closed from 22nd December – reopens 8th January)

Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) is a long-running curatorial project which sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland. Intended as a space for critical appraisal and consolidation of ideas and knowledge, the aim through each subsequent edition is to facilitate and encourage new readings, collaboration, crossover and debate. Not a group exhibition per se, Periodical Review is a discursive action, with the gallery presented as a journal, a magazine-like layout of artworks in dialogue.

The exhibition title ‘A Language to Shout In’ is taken from the accompanying essay by Diana Bamimeke, recipient of the 2024 PPS/PVA Visual Art Writing Commission, presented in partnership with @pva_journal

For more see link in bio

Pallas Projects/Studios is funded by @artscouncilireland

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Really looking forward to Cliona Harmey’s talk Solar and Saline: The Unfixed Image at Foraging Media Symposium on Monday. Cliona’s talk uses fragments gleaned from practice-based experimentation and texts to explore ideas around energy capture, light and early photography’s attempts to achieve fixity in images. The quest for a stable image exists as part of a long conceptual continuum: this talk explores the potentials of embracing the image’s material instability. Cliona is an artist and educator working with media technologies. She runs the "Critical Making" module @ncad.media which focuses on a material led exploration of media practice and encompasses elements of small scale material making, code, as well as working with re-usable/re-configurable open source hardware.
Free, booking on Eventbrite. Walk-ins welcome, subject to availability.
Link in bio

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Foraging Media Symposium & Screening happens on Monday 4th November
in The Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, NCAD.

Both events are free and can be booked through Eventbrite (see link in bio) of @frugalmediaresearchgroup
Speakers include Kim Knowles author of Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices, 2020, Abelardo Gil-Fournier, co author with Jussi Parikka of Living Surfaces: Images, Plants and Environments of Media ( 2024), artist and filmmaker Karel Doing author of Ruins and Resilience: the Longevity of Experimental Film (2024), Radek Przedpelski presents a paper on "Foraging as Decolonial Eco media: Small-file Media to Jumana Manna" and Cliona Harmey presents her recent practice in "Solar and Saline: The Unfixed Image". The roundtable discussion will be chaired by Dr Timothy Stott, The conference and screening is convened by Frugal Media Research Group: Sarah Durcan, Cliona Harmey, Claire Nidecker, Chloe Brenan, an initiative of Media Department, School of Fine Art, NCAD. Supported by the NUI and NCAD RESEARCH.

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convened by @durcansarah in collaboration with @ncad.media Foraging Media is a symposium, screening and workshop bringing together artists and researchers to discuss ecology, materialism, and media. Keynote talks by Kim Knowles, and Abelardo Gil-Fournier with a screening of 16mm films by Karel Doing at 6pm Monday 4th November. Doig’s phytography workshop on Tuesday 5th November combines plant chemistry with photography,
involving human and non-human agency. See @frugalmediaresearchgroup bio and NCAD website for booking info

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Amazing to see all the great things our Cultural Programme Department organised and achieved over the last months. 💚

From our extensive Brigid’s Day celebrations, to the ‘Glenkeen Variations’ exhibitions to the many Studio Quantum [@studioquantum_] events in Berlin, Dublin and the world, this has truly been a spring and summer to remember! We cannot wait for what comes next!

Follow us on social media and sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date! Link in bio.👆

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#goetheinstitutirland #jahresrückblick #37MerrionSquare #germanculture #studioquantm

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Slán NCAD.
Thank you to everyone who supported me over the past 6 years, and the beautiful folks I spent the last two years of the mfa along side. Your kind words, good attitudes and timely chats kept me afloat.

Thank you to @mark_okelly for guidance and realness.
Thank you @philip.napier for thoughtful words and conversation.
Thank you @vanessaleejones81 for challenging my ideas and your supportive understanding.
Thank you @durcansarah for your directness and advice, and for making our final year a smooth one.
Thank you @ohalloranbeth for your kindness and encouragement, you've always made me feel seen.
Thank you @iulian.bocancea.art you were on my ass as a peer and a brilliant technician and I'll always appreciate it.
Thank you @matthewcoll.art you're a well of generosity and laughs.
Thank you to my friends, who've been there every time I've needed them, and it wasn't few.
Thank you to my family, I feel proud to have gotten to this stage of life and it wouldn't be only for them, telling me I should be, and helping me there.
Thank you @yoorwan.art I wouldn't be who I am now without you.

Thank you @ncad_dublin and all of the institutions that have made it possible in the past 6 years for me to pursue ideas and grow as a person. @susi, @1916_bursary, @artscouncilireland without these systems my life would be much smaller.
Art is endless and wonderful, and I am grateful for it all and more.

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