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Public Gesture: An Exploration of Practice-Led Research. IADT, Dutch Art Institute and ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
11-06-2009
Location: The LAB from Tuesday June 9 - Friday 19, 2009. 10am - 6pm.
From the 9th to the 19th of June 2009, students from the IADT's MA in Visual Arts Practices will collaborate with visiting artists from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) on a programme of events to unfold over eighty hours at The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1.
Public Gesture is not a conventional end of year student show. Instead it is a group project, which aims to explore and investigate the various concerns of the MAVIS and DAI students in a dynamic way. The emphasis is less on "product" and more on students generating an experiments for their own practice. MAVIS students include art-practitioners, curators and critics, and this breadth of interests will be reflected in the diversity of the projects and events programmed for the show.
Public Gesture will run over ten days and will include work from all media, photography, moving image, painting, drawing, performance, sculpture, as well as interviews, talks, discursive spaces, event spaces and a reading space. Public Gesture will also include curated work by artists outside the course. The programme will be experimental, shifting and temporal. Works may be shown for just a few days and are intended to open up different conversations in different contexts.
A newspsper-style "copy desk" has been incorporated into the exhibition - daily from 10-1 and 2-5, with two groups of 5-8 people holding discussions at the editorial desk, critiquing the work, re hanging the exhibition, screening and critiquing the video as it comes in from the live performances, etc.
The DAI students are visiting Dublin as part of their research into the exhibition If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution: Edition III - Masquerade, at Project Arts Centre.
The full schedule is available at http://www.mavis.ie/publicgesture
