Announcing our Open Futures Creative Lab Day 2026: Junctions, Dance & the Digital Arts – where we meet, clash and disrupt spaces.
Join us for a Creative Lab Day at Dance Limerick to explore the creative potential of collaboration between dance and digital arts.
Designed for individuals who are interested in deepening their practice, connecting with other artists working in these fields, and engaging in conversations, provocations and exchange of information.
We are thrilled that festival director and multi-disciplinary artist @jo_mangan_ will be joining us along with a number of artists who will be announced in the next week.
📆 Sat 23 May, 9:30am-5pm
📍Dance Limerick
🎟️ Tickets €25 from lightmoves.ie.
Aisling Murray is a Creative Producer and Curator with over 10 years’ experience covering exhibitions, festivals, literature, spoken word, theatre and dance.
Aisling is the founder of Ireland’s art and technology festival, @betafest_irl , which critically engages with technology’s impact on society through exhibitions, discussions and performance.
She is interested in work at the intersection of art, society and technology with specific interest in immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, industry collaboration and socially engaged work.
Aisling joins us for a presentation as part of Junctions, a creative lab day on Saturday 23 May @dancelimerick .
Tickets available from lightmoves.ie.
Also presenting as part of Junctions is multidisciplinary artist Aoife Dunne.
Aoife's practice explores the relationship between physical and virtual space. Working across immersive installation, sculpture, moving image, sound, performance, costume, and new media, she constructs ambitious and site-responsive environments that blur distinctions between material and immaterial worlds.
Informed by digital culture, fantasy, surrealism, and theatricality, her work pushes the boundaries between technology, art, and embodiment.
👉 Creative Lab Day: Junctions
📆 Sat 23 May, 9:30am-5pm
📍@dancelimerick
🎟️ Tickets €25 from lightmoves.ie.
Video: DREAMSPHERE by Aoife Dunne.
Joining us for the Junctions key note opening speech, and to shape the day's discussions, is Festival Director and multi-disciplinary artist @jo_mangan_ .
Jo is the founder of the acclaimed SPACE Programme - Ireland’s longest running multi-disciplinary international artists residency with a current focus on AI and Immersive Technology.
As an independent practitioner and Artistic Director of The Performance Corporation she focuses on the creation of Theatre, Opera, and Immersive Tech experiences as well as developing artists residencies.
Read more about Jo's work on our website, lightmoves.ie.
👉 Creative Lab Day: Junctions
📆 Sat 23 May, 9:30am-5pm
📍@dancelimerick
🎟️ Tickets €25 from lightmoves.ie.
We're pleased to announce our next presenting artist as part of Junctions, a Creative Lab Day that devles into the potential of collaboration between dance and digital arts.
Jürgen Simpson is a composer and performer exploring the intersection of sound, technology, and movement.
Spanning fixed media, installation, theatre, and live performance, his work is rooted in the vocabulary and potential of electronic sound and process. Commissions include Almeida Ensemble, National Chamber Choir Ireland, Crash Ensemble, RTÉ and Turning Point Ensemble.
Jürgen is a an Associate Professor at @dmarc_limerick at the @universityoflimerick . He will present a snapshot of his creative process as part of the event.
👉 Creative Lab Day: Junctions
📆 Sat 23 May, 9:30am-5pm
📍@dancelimerick
🎟️ Tickets €25 from lightmoves.ie.
We are just over 2 weeks away from Junctions - our Creative Lab Day @dancelimerick .
Designed for artists and arts practitioners working in dance, technology, sound and media, the event features workshops, presentations and facilitated discussions from artists working at the cutting edge of these fields.
Presenting artists include
@georgia_tegou@tinapulejkova@hutchsophie@_billy_kemp@efadone
and @simpsonjurgen .
Also joining us are
@jo_mangan_@murphylauraireland@ashomurray
2026 Open Futures artists
and more.
👉 Creative Lab Day: Junctions
📆 Sat 23 May, 9:30am-5pm
📍@dancelimerick
🎟️ Tickets €25 from lightmoves.ie.
Also presenting as part of our Creative Lab Day: Junctions on Saturday 23 May are choreographer and stage director, @georgia_tegou and interdisciplinary artist @tinapulejkova .
Georgia and Kristina have been working together since 2017 creating interdisciplinary work that uses dance, holographic imagery, live projection mapping, immersive 360 video, and most recently VR and XR.
They are recipients of the inaugural Studio Light Moves: Open Futures residency and development award at Dance Limerick in 2021.
We're looking forward to welcoming Georgia and Kristina for a presentation on their collaborative practice.
Read more about the artists at lightmoves.ie.
👉 Creative Lab Day: Junctions
📆 Sat 23 May, 9:30am-5pm
📍@dancelimerick
🎟️ Tickets €25 from lightmoves.ie.
We're delighted to welcome Hutchinson | Kemp to @dancelimerick on 23 May for our Creative Lab Day: Junctions, Dance & the Digital Arts.
Hutchinson | Kemp is the collaborative practice of @hutchsophie and @_billy_kemp . First working together as part of Open Futures 2024, their work explores movement, space, and mediation through an approach grounded in expanded time, working across dance, moving image, sound, and installation.
Hutchinson | Kemp will share a presentation of their work followed by a Q&A as part of the event.
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📆 Sat 23 May, 9:30am-5pm
📍Dance Limerick
🎟️ Tickets €25 from lightmoves.ie.
We are delighted to announce this year’s Studio Light Moves Open Futures artists 📣
Selected from our most competitive open call yet, the three selected pairs of dance and digital artists will spend two weeks in Limerick in May where they will work collaboratively on their proposed research.
They are: Ed Devane and Doris Vahtra (IRL), Cleménce Debaig and Rebecca Evans (UK), and Roberta Ceginskaite and Diarmuid Farrell (IRL).
Congratulations to this year's artists, we're looking forward to following your research and artistic developments in Limerick.
During this time they will be supported by Open Futures curators Laura Murphy and Jürgen Simpson and the project’s production team.
Read more about the artists and their projects at lightmoves.ie, or follow th link in bio 🔗
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The artists be in residence at Dance Limerick, @dmarc_limerick & the @irishworldacademy at the @universityoflimerick and @limerickcitygallery .
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@ed_devane@dj.rani.art@narmag.art@robe.ceg@di_armuid@pell_ensemble@clemencedebaig_art@murphylauraireland@simpsonjurgen
Interested in applying for Studio Light Moves: Open Futures 2026?
Check out our short documentary on the 2024 artists following their time in Limerick for insights into the residency format and scope.
Full 15 minute video available on the Light Moves Youtube channel, follow the link in our bio.
📅 Deadline: 12pm, 12 February 2026
📍 Residency: 18 – 29 May 2026, Limerick
👉 Full details and application info can be found on our website lightmoves.ie.
Light Moves invites dance, digital/media, film and audio artists to apply for Open Futures 2026 - a residency programme that explores the intersection of dance, technology and screen-based practice.
Open Futures supports three collaborative artist pairs to develop new interdisciplinary work through a paid residency and Creative Lab in Limerick, Ireland.
📅 Deadline: 12pm, 12 February 2026
📍 Residency: 18 – 29 May 2026, Limerick
👉 Full details and application info can be found on our website lightmoves.ie or by following the link in our bio.
Studio Light Moves: Open Futures
Open Call 2026
Studio Light Moves invites dance artists and digital/media artists to apply for Open Futures 2026, a residency programme that explores the intersection of dance, technology and screen-based practice.
Now in its fourth year, Open Futures supports three collaborative artist pairs to develop new interdisciplinary work through a paid residency and Creative Lab in Limerick, Ireland.
📅 Deadline: 12pm, 12 February 2026
📍 Residency: 18 – 29 May 2026
👉 Full details and application info can be found on our website lightmoves.ie or by following the link in our bio.
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Funded by @artscouncilireland and @limerickcityandcountycouncil . The programme is supported by partners @dancelimerick , @limerickcitygallery , @dmarc_limerick , @csisul and the @irishworldacademy at UL.
