Public Gesture

Public Gesture: An Exploration of Practice-Led Research. MAVIS, IADT & Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts

The LAB, Tuesday June 9 - Friday 19, 2009. 10am - 6pm. (Closed on Sunday 14 June). 

From the 9th to the 19th of June 2009, students from the MA in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS) will collaborate with visiting artists from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) on a programme of events to unfold over one hundred and twenty-six hours at The LAB.

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. 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.

MA in Visual Arts Practices is a Masters of Arts programme, provided by the Institute of Art, Design & Technology and based in the Dublin city centre at The LAB, Foley Street. MAVIS attracts and engages students seeking to explore the intersections and tensions between contemporary practices of art-making, criticism and curating.

Dutch Art Institute (DAI), a Masters programme provided by ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, targets energetic and inquisitive artists with a critical attitude towards traditional art centres and their hierarchies, by providing them with an international platform for exchange and dialogue with peers as well as with established visual artists, theoreticians and practitioners from other disciplines.

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.
For updates on the schedule see http://www.mavis.ie/publicgesture