Isabel Nolan and Belinda Quirke present The Hum of Earth’s Uneven Breath, a new live performance in the stunning surroundings of IMMA's Baroque Chapel. Created in response to the exhibition Take a Breath – currently in the galleries at IMMA – Nolan and Quirke explore embodied, cosmological and spiritual breath through deep time using sound improvisation, spoken word and voice.

Isabel Nolan’s writings form a critical role in the artist’s expansive practice of her often-intimate inquiry of how humans bring the world into meaning. Belinda Quirke uses voice, vintage Juno 6, and Odyssey synthesisers, combining Pythagorean and palindromic medieval systems in construction. The performance features instrumentalist Matthew Nolan and Matthew Jacobson on drums.

Take a Breath is a major exhibition that provides an historical, social, political, and personal examination of breathing – why we breathe, how we breathe and what we breathe – exploring themes of decolonisation, environmental racism, indigenous language, the Impact of war on the environment and breath as meditation. The exhibition is running in IMMA’s main galleries until 17 March 2025.