Saturday 14 July 2007
Performance: 4.15 pm
IMMA Courtyard
No Booking Required
The Irish Museum of Modern Art invites you to participate to a new, vibrant and engaging site specific performance by internationally acclaimed performance artist and sculptor Michael Timpson.
Michael Timpson
Michael Timpson's widely acclaimed work has been shown internationally, in the United States and Germany amongst others, and most recently in Ireland. His highly dramatized performances, both intensely evocative and visually stunning, articulate his highly sensitive reflection on their very site of production. The artwork, then, while fully immersed in its context, only survives for the length of its performance, and can never be reproduced.
"The Joint Was A-Jumpin,"
Timpson's new site-specific work in IMMA, "The Joint Was A-Jumpin," will feature a specifically composed score by renowned minimalist composer and filmmaker Phil Niblock, who collaborated with Timpson on this project. This site-specific project reacts to the former purpose of the 17th-century building, which served as a military hospital from 1684 to the 1920s and as the Gardai headquarters from 1931 to 1950. Articulating a critical comment on the commodification of war, this will be an extremely evocative, lively and massively impressive visual event.
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