Perceptions Exhibition: 1st year Art, IADT + IMMA
Perceptions
The Place Project Launch: Wednesday 2nd April 1pm
Opening speech by Sheena Barett, Head of Research and Learning and Lisa Moran, Curator of Education and Learning, IMMA
Location: IMMA Studios 9 & 10
Continues: April 2nd – April 6th, 2025
The Place Project is a student-directed research project devised for 1st year BA [Hons] Art students in collaboration with IMMA. From 2nd -6th April 2025 an exhibition of site-specific and site-responsive works and projects takes place at IMMA and online via QR codes available at each location.
The exhibition is available online at Perceptions: The Place Project.
About The Place Project
The Place Project is devised and developed by 1st year Art lecturers; Laura Butler, Dr. Clodagh Emoe, Sinéad Hogan, Tim Lloyd, Des Ward and Lisa Moran Curator of Learning and Engagement, IMMA. This project began in 2008 as a site-specific project in IMMA, introducing students to practical speculative enquiry in response to this specific place and location. Students responded to IMMA as museum, institution, public space, historical site, architectural space, cartographical point, route, environment, etc. The Place Project has evolved into a comprehensive self-directed research project, incorporating peer- and professional-led learning, professional mentoring, public presentations of active research on site and public exhibition. Using IMMA as place, students have developed research projects, creating artistic outcomes within the artists’ studios, the Museum building and the grounds.
“Collaborating with IMMA through the Place Project has given the 1st year students of IADT an incredible opportunity to develop their research skills, learn from professional cultural practitioners and to make their work and ideas public. This ten week immersive project in IMMA has enabled students to make their first unique contribution of exciting, fresh, experimental work to contemporary art in Ireland.” Dr. Clodagh Emoe
