Moran will spend three days working at the Art Lab set up in STAC Chapel, with research and art materials available for you to come in and discuss, make artwork or skill share your own way of expressing your ethnic, or perhaps national/regional/religious identity.

Following the exhibition at STAC, which discusses complexities of her own ethnic identity and sense of belonging, the artist will share in the art lab her use of found images and materials that she felt connect her to ethnic elements. You are invited to bring your own objects, stories, photos, and materials and process them through conversation and creativity.

Irishness like many ethnic identities is rich with folkloric knowledge, significant geographic sites, diasporic and migration stories, and a full range of opinions of what it means to be Irish. Together you will try to disassemble your own ethnic identity and negotiate its complexity.

No previous experience is needed, all materials will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own objects, photos, and tactile materials to work with.

About the artist

Moran Been-noon is a Dublin-based visual artist and independent curator. She predominantly makes moving image installations, using animation, archived material, and non-traditional projections. Her work explores post-migration living and using her own identity and lived experience, how compound ethnicities influence one's sense of belonging. The work incorporates studies of the body's engagement with ideas of place, culture, and society. She is interested in the relationship between folkloric places (real or imagined) and the self (foreign or local).

The development and production of this exhibition were kindly supported by the ArtsCouncil Ireland and by Tog Hackerspace and its members.