6th-21st February 2024
Site-specific Dublin
I seconded in Dublin in February for the first part of my secondment. My research activities were various and split among networking, teaching, and researching.
First, I visited the Projects Art Centre, a cultural and performative reservoir in the heart of Dublin’s Temple Bar, where I connected with Sara Greavu, visual art projects curator and fellow Space X researcher, and Cian O’Brien, curator of performance projects of PAC.
I am very grateful to Prof. Emma Mahony, Space X researcher, for inviting me to NCAD to give a lecture about the history of immersive performance, and to attend her class. Both experiences were very enriching. Very important for my research was the encounter with Prof. Fiona Whealan, Space X researcher, coordinator and dramatist of the project What does he need?, who invited me to visit Rua RED CENTRE OF DUBLIN and introduced me to the Rialto Youth Project.
In these days I also connected with Marley Treloar, fellow Space X researcher, also visiting Ireland for her secondment in Cork, and with the coordinator of the Rialto Youth Project.
In two weeks, I had the chance to experience the performative scene of Dublin in very different contexts and areas of town.
I was very fortunate for connecting with such interesting researchers and research contexts and I am thankful for the networking and the sharing of ideas and projects.
I plan to finish my secondment following the project What does he need? and attending to part of the Fringe Festival.
Further activities during my stay:
Lecture of the artist İz Öztat at NACD, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Lecture of Pedagogical Art at NACD, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Visit to IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art)