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MAVIS 2012 electronic application: the application form can be downloaded from http://www.mavis.ie/application and completed applications can be emailed (JPEG’s and Word Documents) to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

MAVIS 2012 IADT Registration begins 9.30am, February 24th 2012 on the main IADT campus (please note the Pay and Display signs - ruthless clampers at work). All subsequent classes meet at The LAB, Foley St. D1. International study visits to look forward to are Art43 Basel and Liste 17 in June and documenta13 in September.

MAVIS 2011 – Just wrapping up a fantastic second semester that included Visiting Lecturers Chris Fite-Wassilak London-based critic and curator (and MAVIS alumnus), Bartholomew Ryan, assistant curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles artists Scoli Acosta (en route from the Lyon Art Fair) and Chiara Giovando (en route from CalArts Plays Itself @ PACT Zollverein in Essen). Our upcoming international research visit is to Pacific Standard Time exhibitions in Los Angeles http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/ where MAVIS students will be meeting and making presentations to artists, collectors and gallerists of independent spaces and commercial venues. The trip has developed out of the programme’s 2010 management of the visit of a delegation of nine Los Angeles contemporary art curators (including Clara Kim from REDCAT and Anne Ellegood of the Hammer Museum) on behalf of Culture Ireland and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

This semester we’ve also been developing new ‘practice-led teaching’ with contemporary artists and their current research being central to the lecturing; Sean Lynch has worked with students in testing and developing research ideas  for ‘A Rocky Road’ the exhibition he’s curated for Crawford Art Gallery opening on 18th November. Likewise Sarah Browne’s lecturing has moved out of the classroom into staging performative readings at the National Museum, Project Arts Centre Theatre space and intriguingly the hiring of a Regus meeting room (international chain of virtual offices) for a screening of “Looking for Headless”, a documentary commissioned by Goldin+Senneby. Don’t miss current MAVIS students Sean O’Sullivan, Curt Riegelnegg and Rosie Lynch’s panel discussion "Now we see Through a Glass Darkly" with Jota Castro at the Office of Non-Compliance at Dublin Contemporary, 2pm Oct 29th.

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MA in Visual Arts Practices is a Masters of Arts programme, provided by the Institute of Art, Design & Technology www.iadt.ie. It is based in the centre of Dublin, and encompasses pathways in art-making, criticism and curating. The programme runs January to December.

From January 2012, this will be a two-year programme which builds on the success of the original MAVIS course which began in 2004. In refining the best elements of the previous full and part-time modes into a two-year programme this single extended mode gives students the flexibility to access Dublin's richly varied cultural opportunities and to build their  practice within the networks and resources of the city, combining professional activity, studio practice or artworld employment and study, while maximising personal and professional development.

MAVIS prides itself on the emphasis on the importance of real-world learning experience and the two-year curriculum allows the integration of meaningful research collaborations with our strong network of national and international institutions. The annual admission of between 12 and 15 students ensures a small and intensive experience in specially arranged critiques and seminars, and we are delighted to retain the peer learning and social networks facilitated by collaboration between students across the two years.

MAVIS attracts and engages students who seek to explore intersections and tensions between contemporary practices of art-making, criticism and curating. The programme emphasizes the importance of real-world learning experience and offers a combination of taught lectures and workshops (Visual Cultural Research; Contemporary Art Practices; Curatorial Seminar; Research Methods in Practice) together with tutorials, group critiques and independent study. Students participate in two international study trips, engage with high profile visiting lecturers and develop work for a biannual symposium and an annual research collaboration event, which opens to the public. For full details on structure and content see our Frequently Asked Questions.

During their time on MAVIS, students extend their practice by examining a range of validating contexts within which their work is understood. A key aim of the programme is to ensure that research becomes an intentional rather than an assumed activity and students are encouraged to contextualize rather than theorize their practice. MAVIS is open to a diverse range of practices, with past and current students working in areas such as public art commissioning, performance, photography, criticism, sculpture, video installation, curating and painting. The programme also provides an opportunity to develop and explore hybrid practices incorporating art-making, writing and curating.

MAVIS Programme team for 2011 includes Sarah Browne, Maeve Connolly, Valerie Connor, Sean Lynch, Sarah Pierce and Amanda Ralph (Programme Director).

Visiting lecturers on MAVIS have included Dave Beech, David Blamey, Iwona Blazwick, Nicolas Bourriaud, Roger M. Buergel, Gerard Byrne, David Carrier, Justin Carville, Adam Chodzko, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Ana Paula Cohen, Alex Coles, Valerie Connor, Sarah Cook, Cosmin Costinas, Bart De Baere, Pip Day, Jeremy Deller, Vivienne Dick, Brian Dillon, Claire Doherty, James Elkins, Mike Fitzpatrick, Annie Fletcher, Maria Fusco, Liam Gillick, Sarah Glennie, David Godbold, Paul Hedge, Darragh Hogan, John Hutchinson, Jesse Jones, Enrique Juncosa, Fiona Kearney, Jay Koh, Maxine Kopsa, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Raimundas Malašauskas, Francis McKee, Dennis McNulty, Julian Myers, Tone Olaf Nielsen, Leif Magne Tangen, Alice Maher, Mike Nelson, Harold Offeh, Paul O’Neill, Matt Packer, Garrett Phelan, Aisling Prior, Linda Quinlan, Eva Rothschild, John Smith, Tim Stott, Anne Tallentire, Rachel Thomas, Anton Vidokle and Grant Watson.

For information on MAVIS 2012 applications go to the application process page. The application form can be downloaded from http://www.mavis.ie/application and  be emailed (JPEG’s and Word Documents) to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

For further information on the programme please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

or contact:

Amanda Ralph
Programme Director MA in Visual Arts Practices

Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
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