Public Gesture was an exhibition by students of the MA in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS) at the LAB, Dublin. It ran from Friday 13 May 2011 until Thursday 19 May 2011. The exhibition included new work by Rachael Agnew, Debora Ando, Clare-Louise Bligh, Terence Erraught, Aoife Flynn, Jessica Conway, Trish McAdam, Siobhán McDonald & Rachael Gilbourne, Ann Murphy, Vukasin Nedeljkovic, Jane Queally, Sarah Roche and Dorothy Smith.
Public Gesture was curated by Rosie Lynch, Seán O’Sullivan, Rowan Sexton and Kate Strain.
It featured a set of texts edited by Curt Riegelnegg, and a programme of parallel discussions with invited guests who contributed to the legacy of the MAVIS programme.
- 12pm 14 May 2011: As part of ‘In these Troubled Times’, Jesse Jones and Fiona Marron present on delinquency.
- 1pm 18 May 2011: Mark Garry and Curt Riegelnegg in conversation.
- 3pm 19 May 2011: Dr. Ed Krcma ‘Shaman or Sham: The Myth and Materials of Joseph Beuys’.