IMMA Security Camera Footage - Location: Front Gate
IMMA Security Camera Footage - Location: Gardens
IMMA Security Camera Footage - Location: Courtyard
Night Shift was a commissioned late-night public event (9pm-2am) at IMMA exploring concepts of night time and the professions that operate out of kilter to the perceived norm of a ‘nine to five’ job. Challenging our circadian rhythm and our common experience of visiting an exhibition, this slow experience of touring the IMMA Grounds in a land train brought participants through quiet landscapes where sited histories and Collection works were framed by eerie interventions along the way.
Night Shift research was rooted in a drawing made in the 19th Century of a night guard at Kilmainham visibly bored during their shift, dreaming out fanciful scenarios taking place on the Grounds while holding a note in their hand which reads ‘ENNUI’.
Location: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Performers/Dancers: Claire Keating, Matthew Williamson and Robbie O’Connor
Holi Powder Master: Adam Stoneman
Land Train Driver: Cathal Kinsella
Land Train Owner: Pirates Cove
Land Train Controller: Ruth Cassidy
Uniforms: Liliane Puthod
Heritage Researcher and Historian: Barry Kehoe
Inspired by: IMMA’s Night Shift security guards, especially Robbie Cove
IMMA’s Security Car music: Night Shift by Bob Marley
Image credits: National Library of Ireland, A Night Guard at Kilmainham, McCleary, 39 Nassau Street, Dublin
Commissioned by IMMA as part of A Radical Plot Residency 2022.
Performer Matthew Williamson, IMMA’s Collection The Drummer by Barry Flanagan
See performers uniforms here
Performer Robbie O’Connor, IMMA’s Courtyard
Performer Claire Keating, IMMA’s Gardens
Series of 24 polaroids taken during the Night Shift rehearsals.