Anna Macdonald
Ways of Doing Things
Friday 7 – Saturday 8 November (timetable below)
Tickets €7/€5
In Ways of Doing Things by Anna Macdonald, each encounter begins with hands.
This intimate one-to-one performance invites participants to respond to the performer’s hands by creating gestures—shapes, patterns, and matches. With consent, each gesture is added to an online archive titled Collected Ways of Doing Things, forming a growing map of shared movement.
Originally commissioned by Wellcome Sanger and funded by the Wellcome Trust, the work responds to the Human Cell Atlas—an international research project mapping every human cell. It forms part of the artist’s wider exploration of the movements of giving, receiving and consent.
Audience Information:
This is a one-to-one performance where you will be invited to move your hands in relation to the performer in a small hand duet. No dance experience is needed. There is the option for your hand movements to be recorded and to form part of an online archive called Collected Ways of Doing Things, if you want to.
Ways of Doing Things was originally commissioned by Wellcome Sanger and funded by the Wellcome Trust, as part of the One Cell at a Time Exhibition, curated by Suzy O’ Hara.
Performance schedule:
Friday 7 November: 2-2:20pm, 2:30-2:50pm, 3-3:20pm, 3:40-4:00pm, 4:10-4:30pm, 4:40-5:00pm
Saturday 8 November: 1-1:20pm, 1:30-1:50pm, 2-2:20pm, 2:40-3:00pm, 3:10-3:30pm, 3:40-4:00pm, 4:10-4:30pm
Access: Please note wheelchair and step free access is only possible during selected slots, to reserve an accessible place, please contact our box office directly.