A monthly series of live Performances by contemporary visual artists at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.  

Contemporary visual artists include Alex Cecchetti, Mark Cullen, Lisa Freeman, Irina Gheorghe, Maria Hassabi, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and Frank Wasser.

Lisa Freeman 'Slipped, Part 2' (2024)
Sat 3 Aug

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Slipped, Part 2 is a scripted performance work that features actors and a saxophone player. In a looping sequence, the intricate staging and choreography reveal a complex interplay and overlay of ideas around health, leisure, emotion and the body that are amplified by the rhythmic and pathos-infused script. 

Slipped, Part 2 at IMMA follows on from its original presentation as a site-specific response to the former public baths at Naylor’s Cove, Bray with Mermaid Arts Centre (June 2022). This presentation marks a new iteration in response to the grounds at IMMA.

More info on the Irish Museum of Modern Art website here.

Five solo exhibitions are programmed throughout the year, including TBG+S Studio Artists, and Irish artists living abroad who have gained considerable international reputation. Two ambitious off-site solo exhibitions will take place in summer 2024, with the support of Dublin Port Company. Threads of connection across these distinct exhibitions hint at journeys, movement, displacement, and longing.

Lisa Freeman: Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss
March 22–May 19, 2024

Lisa Freeman’s new film follows a young woman as she makes her way through an unfamiliar city. The film includes sequences of intricately choreographed movement and disorientating spoken exchanges, which activate a surreal psychological experience. Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss was originally commissioned by aemi and Sirius Art Centre. 

More information on the TBG+S website here

e-flux announcement can be read here

[July 2023]

More information here

<sub>Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor. June 2022.

Still image, edition 1 of 3 + 2AP.  Digital pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 300gsm archival paper.  Mounted in an aluminium frame measuring 26 x 35 cm.</sub> 

Pallas Projects/Studios are delighted to announce our latest fundraising auction of Irish contemporary art which runs now until the 11th May. Bidding this year will take place entirely online and is kindly supported by deVeres auction house, who are foregoing all fees in support of our organisation, and to encourage and support a new generation of contemporary artists. Bidding is now live!

Online Auction: Bidding now open until Thursday 11th May
Artworks on view: Saturday 6th May– Thursday 11th May, 10am-5pm except Sunday 12-5pm

Venue: The City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2

More information here

aemi & SIRIUS are delighted to announce Lisa Freeman as the recipient of the jointly offered commission for 2023.

Lisa Freeman’s films and performances are set within specific geographic and architectural landscapes. They draw power structures into question and explore how intimacy might be employed as a form of resistance. For this commission, Lisa will use an intuitive approach to script writing to develop a narrative that is intrinsically tied to its physical setting. Exploring the tension and connection between architecture and the body, the film will foreground the light and dark shadows of urban space, where public and private moments come directly and uniquely into contact with one another.

Through the commission process, Lisa will receive a fee to create a new moving image work that will premiere at Cork International Film Festival in November 2023 and be exhibited at SIRIUS in 2024. She will have access to ongoing support and mentorship throughout the year from aemi and SIRIUS, as well as a residency at SIRIUS in Cobh.

Lisa comments: It’s an incredible opportunity to have this aemi and SIRIUS commission. I couldn’t be happier to be working with Alice, Daniel, Miguel and both teams as I develop my new film. It’s a dream to have both the freedom to create and to share in an ongoing dialogue around my work with both organisations. This commission marks a significant moment in my practice, where I’m excited to develop new work to show in film festivals and international contexts.

Read more here

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce the awarded artists from the open calls for Three Year Membership Studios and Project Studios. Three Year Membership Studios have been awarded to Clodagh Emoe, Lisa Freeman, Jaki Irvine, and Jesse Jones. Three Year Membership Studios at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios offer a long-term tenure to artists who have developed an established, professional practice.

The artists were awarded their studios by a selection panel following an open submission application process. The panel included current TBG+S Studio members and established curators based in Ireland and internationally. The selected artists are representative of the exceptionally high-quality and rigorous contemporary art practices in Ireland today. We look forward to welcoming them all into the TBG+S community.

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This new artist publication by Lisa Freeman and designed by the award-winning Or Studio documents the live performance Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor (2022). It includes digital and medium format photography, script excerpts, archival imagery and drawings, alongside commissioned texts by Rachel Donnelly, Dennis McNulty and Astrid Newman.
 
Softcover, with fold outs and insert
Edition of 100
26 Pages
297 x 148 mm

Available to purchase here

Lisa Freeman’s film Slipped, Fell And Smacked My Face Off The Dance Floor has been purchased for the Arts Council of Ireland’s Collection. 

The film features actors, a saxophone player and a significant location: the once-busy sea bathing pool at Naylor's Cove, Bray.

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Artist Lisa Freeman’s film Slipped, Fell And Smacked My Face Off The Dance Floor features actors, a saxophone player and a significant location: the once-busy sea bathing pool at Naylor's Cove, Bray.

Read more on RTÉ

Dublin Art Book Fair is a centre for artist books, and champions creative, independent publishers, both Irish and international. It presents a curated selection of books on art, design, visual culture, philosophy, architecture, select fiction and poetry. The Artist Book Section at DABF features highly developed and beautiful books made by contemporary artists, designers and writers.

Mermaid Arts Centre | 23 November 2022

This special screening is accompanied by text readings and an artist Q&A as well as the launch of Freeman's limited edition publication of the same name, designed by the award-winning Or Studio.

This new artist publication features photographs of the performance, script excerpts, archival imagery and drawings, alongside commissioned texts by Rachel Donnelly, Dennis McNulty and Astrid Newman.

Free but booking necessary via Mermaid Arts Centre 

Curated by aemi, ‘Súitú’ is an opportunity to spotlight some truly exciting moving image works by Irish and international artists that we have encountered over the past year.

The world premiere of aemi’s 2023 Tour ‘Súitú’ receives its theatrical debut at the 67th Cork International Film Festival

Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Lisa Freeman, Holly Márie Parnell and Sofia Theodore-Pierce

Film information:

Fábio Andrade, Contorno/ Contour, 2021, Brazil, digital, 10 minutes
Susan Hughes, Eyes Like Cats, 2022, Northern Ireland, digital, subtitled, 3 minutes
Morgan Quaintance, A Human Certainty, 2021, United Kingdom, 16mm transferred to digital, 20 minutes
Bárbara Lago, Yon, 2021, Argentina, digital, subtitled, 8 minutes
Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Other Tidal Effects, 2021, USA, 16mm transferred to digital, 7 minutes
Lisa Freeman, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out, 2020, Ireland, digital, 3 minutes
Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage, 2022, Ireland, digital, 28 minutes

Running time: 80 minutes

More info on aemi 

More info on Cork International Film Festival 

The video of Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor offers a compelling viewing experience of the site-specific performance of the same name by Lisa Freeman presented in June of this year with Mermaid Arts Centre. Her flair for activating the now defunct sea bathing pool at Naylor’s Cove in Bray is evocatively captured in this twenty minute work. Freeman’s intricate staging and choreography reveal a complex interplay and overlay of ideas around health, leisure, emotion and the body that are amplified by her rhythmic and pathos-infused script.

Dennis McNulty opens up the work even further in his accompanying introductory text. Drawing on a rich set of references, ranging from Beckett to the semiotics of fashion, the text weaves seamlessly between concept and context. McNulty considers the significance of the cove, the physicality of the performers and the styling of their costumes to capture the exquisite energy of Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor.

View the work on aemi

Lisa Freeman: Collaborative Language-Making
Discover art through language, performance and writing.

Friday 8 July to Sunday 10 July, 11am – 5pm.

Join us at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for Summer School! Pop in to explore, make and chat. Drop in anytime to explore artist projects devised by Chloe Brenan, Lynda Devenney and Lisa Freeman, and make your own art. Our gallery mediators will be on hand to guide you. We are delighted to have studio artists past, present and future join us in the gallery space to meet and make with.

More info and booking here

Artists Connect is an artist development initiative of Wicklow County Council with the purpose of supporting artists across all art forms, who are living in or are from the county, to connect, share information and learn from each other. Artist Connects runs events such as Artist Salons co-hosted with Outpost Studios, and The Funding Clinic.

Events are developed with the support of an Artist Panel consisting of artists Robert Barrett (Theatre Writing/Writer),  Niamh O'Connor (writer/film writer), Lisa Freeman (Visual Arts/Multidisciplinary), Conor Dowling (Writer/Film), Emily Gillmor Murphy (Writer/Theatre Writing), Brian Murphy (Theatre), Aisling Ennis (Musician) as well as Jenny Sherwin (Arts Office), Niamh O’Donnell (Mermaid Arts Centre), and Susan Coughlan (independent facilitator).

The Arts Office is committed to developing initiatives under the Artists Connect framework throughout the lifetime of the Arts Strategy Growing the Arts in County Wicklow 2020- 2025.

This fold-out postcard invite for Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor takes inspiration from 1950’s fold-out postcard’s that were used to promote tourist destinations. This postcard contains project research images, text and archival imagery.


If you would like a copy of this postcard please email me with your postal address to freeman.lisamarie@gmail.com