LIVING LENSES EXPLORATION AT IMMA
11TH-23RD JULY

Artist Work Program Showing. This is a schedule of when and where you can view several explorations by LIVING LENSES at IMMA.  For introduction to Living Lenses go to www.livinglenses.com.

Meet the Artist tea party, Friday July 14th 4-6pm, studio 12 at IMMA.

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham D8

Museum Opening Hours: 
Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00am - 5.30pm, Wednesday: 10.30am - 5.30pm, Sunday: 12noon - 5.30pm 

THE SOUND OF THE TWO HANDS CLAPPING

During one of the talks at the Writer?s Festival happened in June in Dublin, we were hypnotized by the syncopated rhythm created by the audience's applause. It is a sea of continuous, but repetitious short-circuiting of the individual human bilateral symmetries, concerted in chaotic wholeness, all in its own accord. From that we build our installation of The Sound of the Two Hands Clapping. Location: Process Room Media: Video, candle, glass, speaker, water, cling film. Dimension: Varied. Showing Date: 11 July - 16thJuly

FIONA MCBRIDE

Fiona McBride is about the first artist in residence at IMMA. It is also the story of how human beings deal with the wrath of the Gods. Visitors to the work will help build the content and context of this work by connecting their own cardio-pulses with that of Fiona?s, via an electronic circuit. Location: Formal Garden Media: Garden statue, electronic circuits, your cardio-pulses. Dimensions: H320cm x W90cm x D110cm Showing date: 11 July - 23 July

SELECTIVE MEMORY GAME

The Selective Memory Game is a photographic exhibition of Dubliners going about their businesses around town. Each image comes in a pair, where one is the edited version of the original image. The Game is so structured to allow the differences of the players/visitors personal operating paradigms to determine which of the pairs of photographs will ended up being displayed, at any given moment. Location: Process Room Media: Photographic images. Dimensions: Varied. Showing Date: 18 July - 23 July

REVOLVING LANTERNS

There are six street lamps between our studio - lodging spaces, and the south wing of IMMA main building. We are turning them into revolving lanterns, where shadows of retired soldiers of the past who died here are projected around the entire space. Location: Area along the South Wing Facade. Media: Street lamps, magnets, aluminium, acetate, ink. Dimension: Entire South Wing front court. Date: Scheduled for the 18 July - 23 July. Visits: Night viewing by appointment only due to Museum's hours.

DNA DONATION

The artwork is made up entirely by visitors? DNA donation. Donation is done in three simple steps. Chew a piece of gum, stick it to the underside of the donation table, and sign on the tabletop. The signature will confirm the donation to a Living Lenses artwork, and that the donor is a co-author of the artwork. Location: Open Studio 12. Media: Table, chewing gum, DNA samples. Dimension: H82 x W180 x D60. Status: Ongoing since May.

IT?S ABOUT TIME

It is an invitation to meditate on Time. Proposing the temporary metrication of the north face of IMMA?s clock tower, we want to draw visitors? attention on this most intimate reality that we have with time.  And yet none of us are really sure what it is. Location: Clock Tower- north face. Media: Clock Tower, polystyrene, colours. Dimension: 2 meters ??ox. Date: N/A. See status. Status: Awaiting permits confirmation or rejection from OPW and Heritage Society

KILKENNY

CHAPTERHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY

Open-air garden theatre UK and Ireland tours summer 2006

Open air performance of Romeo & Juliet in Kilkenny Castle Park

‘Magical Theatre in Magical Surroundings’

The Office of Public Works, is pleased to present Chapterhouse Theatre

Company’s (open air) production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William

Shakespeare at:

Kilkenny Castle Park on Tuesday 18 July 2006 at 7:30pm

- Open-air performance

Tickets and Information available from:

The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle   -   Tel: 056 77 52116