Basic Talks: Lisa Freeman

Join us for a talk with artist Lisa Freeman.

Lisa Freeman is an artist and filmmaker. Her work draws into question economic and power structures and explore how intimacy might be employed as a form of resistance.

Her recent exhibitions, live performances and screenings include: Slipped Part 2, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2024); Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2024); Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss, Cork International Film Festival (2023); Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out, as part of Súitú, aemi Touring Programme, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden (2023); Slipped, Fell and Smacked my Face off the Dance Floor, live site-specific performance, Naylor’s Cove, with Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (2022), Slipped, Fell..., video, aemi online (2022); Green Skies, A Double Rhythm, live site-specific performance, The Curragh, with Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare (2019). Freeman’s work has also been shown in: Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; RHA Gallery, Dublin; the LAB Gallery, Dublin; Somerset House, London; Prenzlauer Kunst Kollektiv, Berlin; Solas Nua, Washington DC. Freeman holds a Three Year Studio Membership at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Her work is held in the Arts Council of Ireland Collection.

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Free. Book or come on the day subject to availability.

Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners, taking place at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.