Occupying the cracks of the institutional scheduling at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), ‘Games for Artists and Non-Artists’ (GFANA) is a series of curated Active collaborations, experiments and workshops drawing on Augusto Boal's Theatre of The Oppressed (TO) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of embodied perception.
Centring participants through meditative and active collaborative approaches GFANA aims to consider both contemporary arts as praxis and as a vehicle for establishing sustainable community-based relations and infrastructures.
GFANA, like the rhizomatic nature of TO, as a practice and concept, has no fixed abode but rather aims to occupy the territory of cracks between participation and art practice, between the institutional and the communal. It does not rely on the tree of the institution but may climb it as a vantage point. GFANA may manifest in many capacities from performative actions, socially inclusive projects, protest or visual expressions. It is an active intersection for artists and the community.
- Work by Sarah Edmondson with fellow participants Elaine Grainger and Helen MacMahon using Image Theatre techniques at a Games for Artists and Non-Artists workshop at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, January 2020.
- Dominique Crowley, Maria Del Buey, Orlaith Phelan and Eimear Regan, Games for Artists and Non-Artists workshop responding to the Derek Jarman, Protest! exhibition at IMMA (2020).
- Helen MacMahon collaborating and experimenting with light at Games for Artists and Non-Artists workshop at IMMA (2020).
- Games for Artists and Non-Artists workshop responding to the Derek Jarman, Protest! exhibition at IMMA (2020).
- Games for Artists and Non-Artists workshop at IMMA (2020).
- Celina Muldoon performing Final Cue via Zoom with collective Child Naming Ceremony as part of GFANA online.
- Ella Bertilsson performing Final Cue via Zoom with collective Child Naming Ceremony as part of GFANA online.
- Aideen Barry, Self Portrait in Isolation (2020) video still, made for GFANA online solidarity Project HANDS.
- Alan Phelan, Hands, (2020) video still, made for GFANA online solidarity Project HANDS.
- Kerry Guinan and Avril Corroon, Hands, Zoom video still, (2020) made for GFANA online solidarity Project HANDS.