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Slipped, Part 2

A live site-specific performance on 3rd of August, 2024, performed on a loop for three hours. 

Slipped, Part 2 (2024) 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. The actors create intimate moments of dialogue touching on ideas of therapeutic infrastructures, tourism and the body as an archive. These moments are set to a live musical score performed by a saxophone player. This project stems from Freeman’s research into sites of failed and poorly designed civic architecture, and how these sites can negatively impact our health and leisure pursuits. 

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 formal gardens at IMMA.

CREDITS 



Written and directed by Lisa Freeman


Presented by the Irish Museum of Modern Art Curated by Sara Muthi

Performed by Mia Byrne (Saxophone), Ana Flood Gomez, Aphra Hartmann, Niamh McPhillips

Digital photography (above) by Cáit Fahey 

Analogue photography (below) by Michael Hill




FURTHER INFO + Screenings of Slipped (The Film)

Information on the original performance can be viewed here.

Screendance Film Tour, Salt Lake Film Society, Utah, USA, 2024

Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2023

aemi online, solo exhibition, October 2022 - January 2023  

RTÉ Culture, In The Picture: Lisa Freeman's Slipped, Fell and Smacked My Face off The Dance Floor, 2022