School of Media lecturer Sinead Curran residency in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
School of Media lecturer Sinead Curran and colleagues from the Roots For the Future Collective have been awarded a one month residency in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in June 2026. Roots For the Future Collective (Maeve Stone, Rosie O Reilly, Eileen Hutton, Sinead Curran and Vanya Lambrecht Ward) formed as a radical thinking group in 2022. They formed in order to research and question ideas around assembly, climate action and place. Since its inception the group gathered around the idea of a ‘Climate Art Assembly’; recognising that the arts sector and the social contract that forms through collective experiences and assembly can form the backbone of how we adapt as a society.
The residency offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling. IMMA encourages reflection across the following themes to consider geographical, historical, political and cultural concepts of Ireland as a starting point to expand and connect international contexts through similarities and differences:
Technologies of Peace – to consider commemorative landscapes and memories of peace (as a dream, movement, or value) while generating perspectives on sustainable coexistence.
The Irish Paradigm – Welcomes artistic research that creates intimacy and connections, while celebrating the perceived agility and freedoms of operating on the periphery. As a small island on the edge of Europe, Ireland often has a challenging relationship with ‘the centre’.
The Museum as a Site of Vibration – consider how the museum and site can create new vibrations and rhythms within the built legacy of empire. How can museums make visible cultural shifts, including erased, censored or marginalised histories, as well as sustainability, planetary care, sharing and hospitality.
See: https://imma.ie/artists/roots-for-the-future-collective/
