Moving Signatures
A collaboration between CoisCéim Broadreach & IMMA Horizons
An interdisciplinary collaboration celebrating IMMA’s exhibition of its permanent collection, ART AS AGENCY, a major three-year display showcasing over 100 artists from the 1960s to the present.
MOVING SIGNATURES will continue with new slow-art and dance opportunities at IMMA in autumn 2026. Every body is invited to join this slow journey from the spontaneous to the considered with full details to be announced at the end of the summer.
This collaborative movement-based project is deliberately slow - and explores how our lived experience, intergenerational exchange, and creative expression can open up new forms of agency, presence and participation in the museum.
Together, we ask: how can we expand our understanding of health to include the spaces we occupy, the histories we inherit, and our relationships with the natural world? In addition to the artworks on display, the performance piece was also informed by the museum itself - its architecture, its history, and its role as a public space - engaging with place in ways that are grounded, situated, and deeply felt in the body.
This project began as a pilot in 2025, inviting participants to capture and share their unique moving signature in response to the artworks at IMMA. A slow journey from the spontaneous to the considered, it included free performances for the public.
It started in the galleries of IMMA where participants of all ages took part in a series of Saturday afternoon slow-art tours designed to provoke the senses and deepen connections with selected works from the museum’s permanent collection. Then, guided by choreographer and filmmaker Jonathan Mitchell, participants responded physically to an artwork that resonated with them to capture their own moving signature - a unique trace.
These moving signatures were filmed and will be shared as a series of citizen reviews through IMMA. The short films also became the building blocks of a new dance work, co-created during Sunday sessions at studio at CoisCéim. This collective response to the artworks was performed at IMMA on 16 November and captured on film.
