5 Must-See Events At IMMA’s Earth Rising Festival 2024
IMMA’s Earth Rising festival is back, and the lineup is packed. Over 60 artists and collaborators are set to contribute to the three-day event, focusing on nature, ecology and climate – so we’re here to make sure you mark your calendars with some of the bits we’re most excited for. Poetry, music and visual art are all on the agenda, encompassing themes of creativity and activism.
Dawn by Gillian O’Shea
WHEN: Friday 20th September 17.00 – 21.00
Location: Studio 12, IMMA
This event is allocated on a first come first serve basis, so you better move fast. Gillian O’Shea has created an immersive art experience which invites attendees to wear a textile hood and listen to an audio chorus from dawn in Kildare. The space gradually becomes flooded with light, glowing through the hood to imitate the experience of sunrise.
DDR: SONIC ECOLOGIES
WHEN: Friday 20th September 18.00 – 21.00 and Sunday 22nd September from 5pm – 7pm
WHERE: Courtyard
DDR: SONIC ECOLOGIES x IMMA is a match made in heaven. If you don’t already know, DDR is an award winning radio station which has been platforming a wide range of alternative music since 2016, this collaboration will feature live performances from the likes of Ian Nyquist, a Dublin based sound engineer exploring theses of landscape, and Ádhamh, a Co Clare based sound design artist examining psycho-geography in Ireland.
Climate Comedy with Anne Gill & Diane O’Connor
WHEN: Saturday 21st September 2pm – 3.30pm
WHERE: North Wing, IMMA
Climate change is, understandably, terrifying. However, this event is here to help lighten the mood, understand that climate guilt is normal, and help you learn a little along the way. Anne Gill & Diane O’Connor play with concerns and fears about the climate, to make you laugh and change the world (one bamboo toothbrush at a time).
Sonic Faza3a
WHEN: On all weekend
WHERE: North Wing
Sonic Faza3a, created by Sakiya in 2022, is an innovative art project combining sustainable technology and mythology. Inspired by pre-Islamic spirituality on Sakiya’s site, it replaces traditional scarecrows with sonic devices that deter wild boar from crops, later inviting them back to help till the soil. This project challenges conventional ideas of enclosures, particularly in Palestine, by offering a more fluid approach to land use. Sakiya is a progressive academy located on a hillside of deep architectural and natural histories in Ein Qiniya, Ramallah, Palestine, where artists, farmers, activists, and students rethink political and social agency and the space of the commons. In the area, most open spaces and natural resources are prohibited for Palestinian use due to restrictions of Israeli civil and security control.
Torpor – By Sarah Rose
When: Everyday (Saturday and Sunday 10-11am: moth release)
WHERE: Queen Vic
Sarah Rose’s exhibition ‘Torpor’ uses light to attract moths. On Saturday and Sunday from 10am until 11am, Sarah has invited viewers to experience the installation as a live photograph in which she will be releasing the moths that she has attracted by light. Sarah’s work reflects on the multitude of ways both humans and non-humans activate desires and diversions, and the exhibition immerses the viewers both visually and audibly in the moths’ environment. You’ll need to bring headphones for this one!
