Palestinian artist Emily Jacir is leading a student workshop at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in conjunction with her current exhibition Europa which runs to February 26. “To Be Determined (for Jean)” is based around an exchange with students from the International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah, where she teaches. They are working at IMMA with students from colleges around Ireland including Limerick School of Art and Design; Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Centre for Creative Arts and Media; the National College of Art and Design Dublin and Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology.
The workshop is taking place over two consecutive weeks during which the nine students are travelling to sites around the country including the Falls Road in Belfast, Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin and the city of Derry with artist Willie Doherty. The colleagues Jacir has invited to contribute are people she has been working with for decades like Willie Doherty, Conor McGrady, Gerard Byrne, Shane Cullen, and David Lloyd. Most of them have worked in Palestine.
The initiative offers an opportunity for IMMA to develop its relationship with third level partners, to test out a model for international collaborative student research focusing on exhibitions and exhibiting artists, and to promote its potential as a site for research.
Emily Jacir, a sketch in the Egyptian Museum, April 24, 2003, Cairo 2003, video, photo: courtesy of the artist, © Emily Jacir
Emily Jacir, Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work), 2002, two-channel video installation, photo: courtesy of the artist. © Emily Jacir