St. John’s Church

Formerly known as Church

St John’s Church, John’s Square, LimerickGoogle Maps

St. John’s Church is a deconsecrated church building. It was built in 1851 on the site of a medieval church, to the designs of architect Joseph Welland.
Due to the drop in Limerick’s Anglican population, St. John’s Church fell into disuse in the 1970s. The building is now the home of Dance Limerick.
This site was one of four venues for the 36th edition of EVA in 2014, curated by Bassam El Baroni (b. 1974, Egypt) and titled AGITATIONISM.
That year, Nástio Mosquito (b. 1981, Angola) performed Bee: the Opposite of Cockroach (2014), a live performance commissioned by EVA, in which the artist performed a ‘recipe’ with the golden rules for making motivation.