Aoife Dunne Announced as 2025 Immersive Artist in Residence
Image courtesy of Aoife Dunne.
Following our recent Immersive Residency Open Call in partnership with Beta Festival Ireland, we are delighted to announce the selected artist is Aoife Dunne.
Aoife will be joining us at our studios between July and October 2025 to develop and produce an installation that will be exhibited in the historic Riddel’s Warehouse between the 3rd – 8th of November 2025.
We are excited for Aoife to be joining us and look forward to presenting her work in November.
About the Artist:
Aoife Dunne (b. 1995, Dublin) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the dynamic intersection between physical and virtual spaces through immersive installations that integrate sculpture, video, sound, performance, costume, and technology. Drawing inspiration from digital culture, surrealism, fantasy, and social critique, her research centers on technology’s profound impact, with a dedicated exploration of its transformative effects on identity and community.
Her installations create vibrant, multi-sensory environments designed to challenge and expand conventional perceptions of self and place by blurring the boundaries between the material and immaterial. Using improvisation, interactivity, and digital innovation, Aoife generates surreal, often otherworldly experiences that seek to redefine the evolving relationship between art, technology, and embodiment.
Aoife’s work is informed by a commitment to questioning how emerging technologies reshape human perception and social connection, addressing both the potentials and paradoxes of digital immersion. Her approach melds critical theory with intuitive processes, crafting spaces where viewers are invited to inhabit liminal zones between the physical and virtual, reality and fantasy.
The Immersive Residency is kindly supported by Belfast City Council.
