The Everyday Experience, free paper at IMMA, published by IAF, 2013
In contrast to the Eileen Gray retrospective in the upper galleries, IMMA invited the IAF to ‘take over’ the process room for four months in 2013. Nathalie Weadick responded by curating The Everyday Experience, an exhibition, a series of talks, screenings, symposia and workshops, that celebrated the ‘ordinary’ and revealed how much of our experience of the designed or informal built environment is immersed in the everyday. The participants were national and international architects, designers, artists, filmmakers and writers.
Gallery talk, The Everyday Experience. Image Luis Pedro
The exhibition contained work by Pablo Bronstein (Artist ARG), Celine Condorelli (Artist UK), Culturstruction (Design Studio IRL) & Renate Henschke (Fashion and Costume Designer AU), Cristian Manzutto (Film-maker MEX), Tom dePaor (Architect IRL) & Peter Maybury (Artist IRL), Ciaran O Gaora (Designer IRL), John Gerrard (Artist IRL) & A2 Architects (IRL), Dominic Stevens (Architect IRL), Urban Agency (Architects IRL/DK) & Gregory Dunn (Artist IRL), Milton & Martin (Designers UK) and Kevin O’Brien (Architect AU).
Architecture extends far beyond its design and construction. Talking about architecture, as experience, was an opportunity to reflect on it and examine what defines its meaning in the everyday. The overall motive of the exhibition was to take a critical look and discuss the use, perception and production of the built environment. We might not be aware of it, but the built environment has a great effect on us and on our perception of things surrounding us. I was using the everyday as a springboard to demonstrate the vitality, vulnerability and impact of architecture as experienced.
This research is ongoing.
Curatorial schema, initial sketch by Nathalie Weadick, showing movement and pace through the exhibition.
Bench for Networking by John Gerrard and A2 architects
From R-L: Milton & Martin, Gregory Dunn, Urban Agency
Tom dePaor and Peter Maybury
Culturstruction and Renate Henschke
From R-L: Pablo Bronstein, John Gerrard & A2, Milton & Martin, Urban Agency (foreground)
