Moving Signatures
A new collaboration between CoisCéim Broadreach & IMMA Horizons
You’re invited! Join us in a brand new interdisciplinary collaboration celebrating IMMA’s exhibition of its permanent collection, ART AS AGENCY, a major three-year display showcasing over 100 artists from the 1960s to the present.
Capture and share your unique moving signature in response to the artworks. Take a slow journey from the spontaneous to the considered. Get to know new people and perform at IMMA.
Join us and travel from instinct to intention using YOUR moving signature: a short physical phrase that carries your body-memory, your thoughts, your energy.
This four month-long project begins in the galleries of IMMA where you will take part in a series of Saturday afternoon slow-art tours designed to provoke your senses and deepen your connection with selected works from the museum’s permanent collection.
Then, guided by choreographer and filmmaker Jonathan Mitchell, you’ll respond physically to an artwork that resonates with you to capture your own moving signature – your unique trace.
These moving signatures will be filmed and shared as a series of citizen reviews through IMMA. They will also become the building blocks of a new dance work, co-created during Sunday sessions at CoisCéim Studio. This collective response to the artworks will be performed at IMMA in November and captured in a short dance film.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
This collaborative movement-based project is deliberately slow - and explores how our lived experience, intergenerational exchange, and creative expression can open up new forms of agency, presence and participation in the museum.
Together, we ask: how can we expand our understanding of health to include the spaces we occupy, the histories we inherit, and our relationships with the natural world? In addition to the artworks on display, the performance artwork will also be informed by the museum itself - its architecture, its history, and its role as a public space - engaging with place in ways that are grounded, situated, and deeply felt in the body.
Project Dates 2025
SLOW-LOOKING ART TOURS Saturdays at IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8: from 2 August to 6 September
MAKING MOVING SIGNATURES Sundays at IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8: on 14 and 21 September
CREATIVE DANCE SESSIONS Sundays at CoisCéim Studio, Fairview, Dublin 3: from 28 September to 9 November
CULMINATES with daytime performances at IMMA Sunday 16 November
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Open to adults aged 18+. No movement, art or museum experience necessary - All welcome!
PARTICIPATION FEE Pay What You Can - Recommended Price €156* (Range: €65 - €299)
REGISTER NOW by emailing Inna@coisceim.com
*If you can afford to pay the recommended price of €156 or more, choosing to do so supports those that can’t. It makes it possible for us to continue to offer Pay What You Can and welcome those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to take part.
Credits
PROJECT LEADER & FILMMAKER JONATHAN MITCHELL
IMMA HORIZONS CURATOR SUNDARA O’HIGGINS
COISCÉIM PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR INNA MAZURENKO
PARTNER
IMMA Horizons
IMMA Horizons aims to contribute to new research and ongoing conversations in Ireland and globally, on how creativity can positively impact health and wellbeing across the life course through programming and partnerships. We provide free, creative, inclusive experiences and events for adults and community groups to meet and explore art together at a relaxed pace, in a sociable and supportive environment that encourages active participation by all. Take time for yourself, engage your senses and stretch your imagination, while discovering new ways of looking at the world and connecting with others, through facilitated experiences at IMMA and online.
