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IMMA Outdoors

IMMA Outdoors entered its third year in 2022 and included ‘IMMA Nights’, supported by the Night-Time Economy’, funded by Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. IMMA Outdoors ran for twenty weeks with live music in the Courtyard and a host of artistic events.

This is a photograph of a yoga or exercise class taking place on a sunny day in the Formal Garden at IMMA. Five white women reaching towards the sky, lunging with their front legs, face their teacher, also a white woman. They stand on yoga mats in warrior position. The lawn they are on is surrounded by a low box-hedge with alternating conical bushes and round topiary bushes just inside it. Some of the bushes have black and white geometric shapes on top of them. In the background, the classical double stone staircase leads to one of IMMA’s terraces, part of which is obscured on the left by a hoarding covered in similar black and white geometric patterns. We can see the base of the clock tower rising into a hazy blue sky.

IMMA Outdoors played a pivotal role in the museum’s strategy to be an inclusive and a radically public space for all. The programme offered a total of 179 events over a five-month period and partnered with other cultural and community initiatives, artist groups and organisations including Bealtaine, Common Ground, Lux Critical Forum Dublin, Big Bang Festival of Rhythm, Lilliput Press, Dublin Digital Radio, Complex Centre, SPICE community groups, MASI, B+I and ART Multi to create a hive of night-time activity on site.

IMMA Outdoors offered a range of daytime and evening activities such as outdoor yoga, art workshops, green cube tours, and gate to gate tours. The art workshops provided participants with the opportunity to learn and practice oil painting, drawing, mono-printing, portraiture, craft, mending and more. The event also hosted dance and knitting workshops to cater to as broad an audience as possible.

The programme’s Culture Night finale, Night Shift by Liliane Puthod, offered a unique and immersive experience for visitors. The event involved touring the grounds in a land train that took participants through the landscape where they could explore sited histories and Collection works framed by eerie interventions along the way.

The IMMA Summer Party, entitled Continuous Pattern, returned in July with a two-evening celebration of music, art, and atmosphere. The event featured a range of performers such as Jar Jar Jr., Negro Impacto & Efe, Glasshouse, Aoife Nessa Frances, DJs R Kitt, Aoife Wolf, O Deer, Ukulele Collective, Stomptown Brass, headline performances from Ye Vagabonds, Gareth Quinn Redmond, Landless and DJ sets from Dublin stalwarts, radio personalities Claire Beck, Donal Dineen, Emmy Shigeta and the Desert Island Disco crew. The event attracted almost 2,000 people who enjoyed the warm summer embrace of the setting sun in the majestic courtyard.