Performance: Hanna Ijäs, 'Lie Down Where You Want to be Stepped On'

Artist-in residence Hanna Ijäs presents a studio performance exploring the disconnection between a physical and a digital body, where the mind and emotions operate on a hyper level. The piece is constructed around the methodology of collecting and preserving butterflies. Ijäs uses lyricism and flashbacks through a disorientating context of staged intimacy, accompanied by live experimental and improvised heavy noise music.

Lie Down Where You Want To Be Stepped On is an ode to a decaying body. An apology to the mother. And a letter to the lover that offered shelter when the body had no apprehensible responses left.

Performed by Hanna Ijäs accompanied by Karen Browett and Sarah Grimes.

Hanna Ijäs is a multidisciplinary artist and the recipient of the TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange, 2024. In times where technology moulds and forms interactions, Ijäs aims to grasp this through performance, ways of communication and methods of understanding. Writing and performing are the tools to reveal, discover and frame the value systems, power structures and conditions of humans. At the very core Ijäs re/de/constructs identity and the question of what it is to be a human within expanding and contracting borders and boundaries in a vast fluid changing world. The core of research is the mapping of the modern human at large in digital and physical realities.

Recent exhibitions and performances include Lie Down Where You Want To Be Stepped On, presented as part of Respawn, Atletika Gallery, Vilnius. Recent grants include Arts Promotion Center Finland (2020-21). Recent studio residencies include Sodas2123, Vilnius, Lithuania 2021. In June 2024 Ijäs will be delivering two performative workshops in Helsinki as part of her continuing artistic research practice.

TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange gives an Irish or Ireland-based artist the opportunity to spend three months at HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme. The selected artist has access to production facilities, visiting curators and an international network of artists. In return, TBG+S hosts a Finnish or Finland-based artist in Dublin for two months, kindly funded by the Finnish Institute UK + Ireland.

Event location Description: Earplugs will be provided and their use is strongly advised. Duration is approx. 30 minutes. Enter through the street facing gallery where our team will be present to answer questions and direct you to Studio 1 on the ground floor. There may be photography and filming without flash during the event.

For further information please contact orla@templebargallery.com or call 01 6710073.

Image description: A poster shows a pale pink fabric ruffle on a grainy mustard yellow background. The title 'Lie Down Where You Want To Be Stepped On' is over the ruffled fabric, the corners of some of the letters are covered by the edges of the ruffles. The rest of the text on the poster reads 'Performance by Hanna Ijäs. 26 April. 1800hrs. Temple Bar Gallery + Studio, Studio 1. Sound by Karen Browett and Sarah Grimes.'