https://eoghanryan.ie Eoghan Ryan Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:30:42 +0000 https://eoghanryan.ie en https://eoghanryan.ie/Front-page Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:31:28 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Front-page info@eoghanryan.ie Work Info https://eoghanryan.ie/Work Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:26:29 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Work info@eoghanryan.ie Home Carceral Jigs, 2025 Circle A, 2024Doggerel, 2022 A Sod State, 2021/22 Truly Rural, 2019 Virtuous Floaters, 2018 Cut it off at the trunk, 2017 The Modern Dance (In Light of Today’s Questions), 2017 Behind Sedentary, 2016 Clamdigger, 2015 Oh wicked flesh! 2013 This Fecund Lump, 2012 https://eoghanryan.ie/Info Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:39:28 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Info Back to Home contact -&nbsp; info@eoghanryan.ie 24 October 2026 - 13 February 2027 - The Rupture. Group show @ Talbot Rice Gallery. Edinburgh. September 16th 2026 - Circle A. Performance @ Gogbot x Rijksmuseum Twenthe. Enschede. NL. June 21st 2026 - Carceral Jigs @ Docs Ireland. Short Film Selection. Belfast. May 30th to June 26th 2026- Titled Within a Play @ Willie/Mutter. Amsterdam.&nbsp; April 18th - June 12th 2026 - state of us @ De Appel. Amsterdam. April 1st - May 31st 2026- Gi.Gi.Gi: Trials and Errors @ Ilmin Museum of Art. Seoul. South Korea. March 20-26th. 2026 - ‘Carceral Jigs’ @ 21st Berwick Film &amp; Media Arts Festival. Berwick. UK. January 7th 2026– ‘A Sod State’ @ Rialto Cinema. Amsterdam.NL. Sept 13th – November 16th 2025- ‘Protest’ @ Viewmaster Projects. Maastrict. August 2025 –Nov 2025 - EVA International: ‘It Takes a Village’. Ireland’s Biennale. Limerick. L May 2nd to Sept 21st 2025 – ‘Staying with the Trouble’ @ Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, Ireland. Dublin October 30th 2024 - Dirty Solutions Presents: 'Dry Run' @ Temple Bar Galleries and Studio’s. Dublin, Ireland. September 21st - November 21st 2024. Truly Rural @ Palazzo Re Rebaudengo with Noor Abed, Massimo Bartolini, Sarah Cirad, Mario Giacomelli, Helena Hladilova, Mauro Ledru, Marko Lehanka, Jumana Manna, Carol Rama, Athi-Patra Ruga, Eoghan Ryan, Wilhelm von Gloeden. Curated by Bernardo Follini. June 21st - August 3rd 2024. the rough grace of a bard – Adriano Costa, Eoghan Ryan, Mire Lee @ Flats, Brussels.&nbsp; April 13th - 28th 2024. A Sod State @ The Complex. Dublin, Ireland. A conversation between Eoghan Ryan and Dr Rory Rowan, Trinity College Dublin will take place on Saturday 20 April at 3pm in the Complex Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by A Sod State – a publication featuring contributions from Maria Fusco, Jaki Irvine and Pádraic E.Moore Curated by Więckiewicz-Carroll, that explore the impact of political and social structures on our identity.&nbsp;Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. January 31st - March 24th - Against the Day. Solo Show at @ Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg. Oldenburg. Germany. January 17th - 23rd 2024. 37th Stuttgart Filmwinter. International Short Film Competition.&nbsp;October 19th -23 2023. Festival Instants Vidéo. Marseille.&nbsp; September 11th 2023 - Hmn edition 22 @ The Tin Tabernacle. Kilburn. London. Organised by Anne Tallentire and Chris Fite-Wassilak. June 30th to July 3rd - Live Works @ Central Fies, Dro, Italy with Rabih Mroué, Harald Beharie, Jota Mombaça, Tarek Lakhrissi, Florin Flueras, Bassem Saad and Sanja Grozdanić, Yoojin Lee, Eoghan Ryan, Alice Giuliani and Camilla Strandhagen, Teo Ala-Ruona and Artor Jesus Inkerö, Thalia Pigier, Endi Tupja, Soukaina Abrour, Marco Giordano, Sinthujan Varatharajah, Lola Olufemi, Francesca De Rosa, Nkisi, Alina Popa. Curated by Barbara Boninsegna and Simone Frangi. Supported by Mondriaan Fund Artist Project Grant.&nbsp; April 13th to 16th-Woo woo Woo: Curated by Jeanette Bisschops. Special Project@Expo Chicago. March 14th- Transitions Maastricht. Feb 15th- LIMA presents: New Work. Michiel van Bakel, Amauta Garcia &amp; David Camargo, Marijn Ottenhof, Eoghan Ryan and Mateo Vega&nbsp;@ LAB11. Amsterdam.October 15th 2022. Some Say The Devil Is Dead.&nbsp; @ ICA, London as part of BFI London Film Festival 2022.&nbsp; September 3rd- Nov 6 2022. Busan Biennale 2022. We on the Rising Wave. Busan, South Korea. September 28th- LIMA presents: New Work. Kent Chan, Ghita Skali, Frederique Pisuisse and Eoghan Ryan @ LAB11. Amsterdam. January 7th - 2 February 2022- A Sod State. Rotterdam International Film Festival. Short/Mid-Length. November 9-12, 2021 -Visio 11. Thinking Beyond. Moving Image for a Post Pandemic World. @ Manifattura Tabacchi.&nbsp; Florence. Schermo dell'arte 2021. Nelson Bourrec Carter, Alexandre Erre, PHILTH HAUS, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, ChongYan Liu, Eleonora Luccarini, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Eoghan Ryan, VEGA, Janaina Wagner. Curated Leonardo Bigazzi.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; June 21, 2021 - July 31, 2021- Truly Rural in the frame of&nbsp; Isabelle Cornaro INFANS @ Foundation Ricard. Paris. Selected by Mohamed Almusibli. &nbsp; June 17-27th 2021- Rijkakademie Open Studio’s 2021. &nbsp;March - May 2021 - Contamination. Hannah Black, Rindon Johnson, Mire Lee, Eoghan Ryan @ Kunstverien Freiburg. &nbsp; October 21st - 25th 2020 - Truly Rural . Performance edit @ ADE.&nbsp; September 20th 2020 - Truly Rural. Outdoor Performance @&nbsp;Kunstfort Vijfhuizen.March&nbsp; 2020- Formworks 03: Artist's Moving Image @ Thkio Ppalies, Cyprus with Maeve Brennan, Rindon Johnson, Yashaswini Raghunandan and Eoghan Ryan. Organised by Marina Xenofontos. November 2019 - Rijksakademie Open Studios. Spike Magazine - Escape. Autumn Issue #61. Image Centrefold. July 25th 2019&nbsp; - OSIOS@ Exile Gallery, Vienna. April 26th - May 26th 2019 - Retrogression. Beth Collar and Eoghan Ryan @ 427, Riga. Supported by Culture Ireland. February 21st 2019 - Hard to Read @ Fragile, Berlin. A tease that bonds, not a seperation. December 28th 2018 -'Laid Low' Performance and publication. Fál Linntreog @ Firestation Studios. Dublin. May 16th 2018- Nocturnal Reflections: Immanent Cloud. With Peter Burr, Beny Wagner, Lawrence Lek, Eoghan Ryan, Andrew Norman Wilson, Sara Magenheimer, Corey Hughes. Macao, Milan. 26 April–15 June 2018 ‘Unklarheit ist die neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit das neue Urteil’. Marie Angeletti, Jason Dodge, Richard Hoeck &amp; John Miller, Christian Kobald, Kiki Kogelnik, Annika Larsson, Alli Miller, Noële Ody, Ewa Partum, Lukas Posch, Seth Price ,Hanna Putz, Aura Rosenberg, Eoghan Ryan and Nora Turato. Organised by Rita Vitorelli. Spike, Berlin. May 6th - June 1st 2018 - ‘Juvenalia’ Beth Collar and Eoghan Ryan at Center. Berlin. April 15th 2018 - 'A wandering camera-body, filming other bodies in motion'. As part of the East End Film Festival.London. April 6th 2018- 'A Dark Room Space', Billy Bultheel, Adam Fearon, Max Göran, marum, Doireann O’Malley, Eoghan Ryan, Jacolby Satterwhite , Ashkan Sepahvand + Zander Porter, sstmrt.com. Agora, Berlin. Curated by Thomas Butler &amp; Zander Porter. September 29th - November 4th 2017 - 'Cut it off at the trunk' Solo Show. Rowing, London. July 6th- August 7th 2017 - 'Viewing Copy', Eoghan Ryan, Vivienne Dick and The Radical Film Archive, Catalyst Arts. Belfast. August 17th 2017 - The Modern Dance (In the Light of Today's Questions) Performance, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland. April 13 - August 27 2017 - As Above, So Below -Portals, Visions, Spirits &amp; Mystics, IMMA. Dublin, Ireland. Feb 25th 2017 - 'As We May Think'. Organised by Alice Butler, IFI Cinema, Dublin, Ireland. September 2016 -The Museum as Performance. Future Friendships II.&nbsp; Serralves Museum for Contemporary Art. Porto. In collaboration with Jassem Hindi. Aug 2016 – Knife Block. Performance event. Kem Project Space.&nbsp; Poland. July 2016- Virtuous Floaters. RGKSKSRG. April/October 2016 - Outpost Open Film 2016, Selected by Ed Atkins. April 2016 - Behind sedentary, Solo Exhibition. Rowing Projects, London. March 2016 - And No Animal Is Without Enemy, Performance Event. Organised by Megan Nolan. Cubitt, London. March 2016 - CITIZEN - Chisenhale Dance. Curated by Taylor La Melle. December 2015 - Exit, Stuttering and Nebula. Group Show curated by Kaspars Groshevs kim? Contemporary, Riga. August 2015. SunScreen. Westminster Waste, London. July 2015. Cookie Gate. Ellis King. Dublin, Ireland. July 2015 - FATM 2015. Co-curated by Tracy Hanna and Emer Lynch. Dublin, Ireland. April 2015- The Conch, South London Gallery with Linda Stupart, London. April 2015 - Wilderness, Group show. New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen. March 2015 - BCC:Curators Go to The Bar 90+, Rupert, Vilnius. March 2015 - 'The Hyperlinks or it didn't happen' Screenings at CAC Cinema. Vilnius. Lithuania. February 12th to March 1st 2015 - Primal Architecture. Roadkill. Irish Museum of Modern Art. Feb 2015 - PLASTIK Moving Image Festival 2015 in association with LUX, IFI AND TBG+Studios. IFI, Dublin. Ireland. October 2014 - Project Visible. Tate Modern, Schools and Learning. London. May 2014 - LOCOMOTION Artists Moving Image Festival. Store, London. March 2014 - Science Fiction : New Death. Group Show. Fact, Liverpool. March 2014 - Proxy Special. Group Show. Platform Arts, Belfast. July 2013 - Let Thoughts Wash Over Me (like a stream) - Publication launch, South London Gallery. April 2013 - Eoghan Ryan and Ian White live! and In Conversation. South London Gallery, London. March 2013 - Oh wicked flesh! Solo Show @ South London Gallery. London. Awards and Grants. -Grant for Media Art 2023. Stiftung Niedersachsen. Foundation of Lower Saxony.BFI London Film Festival 2022. Special Mention. Short Films Competion for ‘A Sod State’Inaugural Critical Forum Award 2015. PLASTIK Moving Image Festival in association with LUX, IFI AND TBG+StudiosNina Steward Award and Residency 2012 with South London Gallery and SPACE Mondriaan Project 2025 Mondriaan Basic 2024&nbsp; Mondriaan Artist Project Grant 2023 Visual Arts Bursary 2026. Arts Council Ireland DLRCoCo Arts Grant 2025 Arts Council Ireland. Project Award 2024. Visual Arts Bursary 2022. Arts Council IrelandVisual Arts Bursary 2019/20. Arts Council IrelandVisual Arts Bursary 2016/17. Arts Council Ireland Culture Ireland. 2022 Culture Ireland. 2018 Travel and Training 2018. Arts Council Ireland Artists International Development Fund 2014 with the British Council and Arts Council England Residencies. - January 2025-December 2025 -Dwell Here at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin. April 2023 - Centrale Fies. Trento. Italy 2021 - Visio 11. European Program for Artists Moving Image. 2019-2021 - Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten April 2015 - Statens Værksteder for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark March 2015 - Rupert, VilniusApril 2015 - Production Residency. Statens Vaerksteder for Kunst, Copenhagen. Sept 2014 -Research Residency in participation with SPACE London and Openspace Bae. Busan. South Korea. Supported by the AIDF in association with Arts Council England Press/Text/Publications. -2025- Eflux Critiscism. Isobel Harbison on 41st EVA International. 2024 - A Sod State with Jaki Irvine, Maria Fusco and Padraic Moore.2024 - Art Review. Future Greats 2024.2023 - Public Art. KR. Issue 197. Artist feature.2021 - Rijksakademie. 150 year anniversary publication.2020 -Spike Magazine - Escape. Autumn Issue #61. Image Centerfold.2019 - Spike Magazine – Seduction. Issue # 57. Pills. Text contribution.2017- As Above, So Below. Portals, Visions, Spirits &amp; Mystics. Exhibition Catalogue. Irish Museum ofModern Art2017 – Blue Paper. CZ. Artist feature. Eoghan Ryan and Beth Collar.2015- BCC: Curators Go to The Bar: 90+ A reader.2015 - Primal Architecture. Exhibition Catalogue. Irish Museum of Modern Art2014 -Project Visible. Tate Modern.2013 - Oh Wicked Flesh! - South London Gallery. Edited by Joseph Noonan Ganley2012 - This is my hand. Self published artist newspaper Collections and Distribution. - Busan MOCA Collection The Defares Collection LIMA. Film Distribution Peter Paul Peterich Fonds @ the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s Depot Workshops, Talks and Teaching.-2021– Visiting Lecture and workshop. Kunstakademie Münster2020 – SHARE @ ArBA-EsA 28. Brussels.2016 - Artist Led Workshops. Hartstown Community School in collaboration with Fingal Arts Council.Dublin, Ireland 2015. Beatrice Tate and Chisenhale Gallery Outreach Program.2013-14 - Artist in Residence, Tate Modern Schools and Learning. Other Projects. - 2015 to 2107– Plural Melts. An intermittent program of performances and events, taking place at Yvonne&nbsp; Lambert between 2016 and 2018. Curated alongside Aaron Ratajczyk 2014-2015 - Beatrice Tate Program in partnership with the Chisenhale Gallery, London 2014 - Tate Film and Resource Development. Tate Modern Schools and Learning Education. - 2019-2021 - Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten 2010-2012-&nbsp;MFA. Goldsmiths. 2010-12 2007- 2010 -BFA. NCAD Fine Art Painting <img width="856" height="280" width_o="856" height_o="280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edf769bcb69313bd77d480d0443a3c706bbad31fc8517b3af653d90958c9b83e/ac-funding-visual-arts-ke-rgb-white.png" data-mid="249059491" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/856/i/edf769bcb69313bd77d480d0443a3c706bbad31fc8517b3af653d90958c9b83e/ac-funding-visual-arts-ke-rgb-white.png" /> <img width="358" height="376" width_o="358" height_o="376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bbdc4cf0e2ea132135a3d38c9aac3c465d8397c6633cadc37bb54b1a5de0b66/MFO_LOGO_EN_RGB_WIT_SMALL.png" data-mid="221867691" border="0" data-scale="22" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/358/i/1bbdc4cf0e2ea132135a3d38c9aac3c465d8397c6633cadc37bb54b1a5de0b66/MFO_LOGO_EN_RGB_WIT_SMALL.png" /> https://eoghanryan.ie/Circle-A-2024 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:10:01 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Circle-A-2024 Back to Work ︎ Prev / Next ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Circle A. 2024 Video installation and performance <img width="3732" height="2362" width_o="3732" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd8e2bbc92ff7c96a747d0c91208c2b825cf31b1c123b1187631526d957e200a/CA_3.jpg" data-mid="207337051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd8e2bbc92ff7c96a747d0c91208c2b825cf31b1c123b1187631526d957e200a/CA_3.jpg" /> Circle A. 2024 Video Installation. 4K5.1/6 Channel Surround SoundFull Running Time - 29mins loopViewing copy on requestinfo@eoghanryan.ie Video Stills <img width="1962" height="1098" width_o="1962" height_o="1098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87ea372070fe3093f9029c1e6d9fae015091b628cc3b711d50c17902d5c859bd/CA_2.jpg" data-mid="207337234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87ea372070fe3093f9029c1e6d9fae015091b628cc3b711d50c17902d5c859bd/CA_2.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eef96579758dc51594acef6a4b0f68db98125ac022c5f96ba7b9ba11192aad0d/ORDER.00_07_50_14.Still068.jpg" data-mid="207337264" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eef96579758dc51594acef6a4b0f68db98125ac022c5f96ba7b9ba11192aad0d/ORDER.00_07_50_14.Still068.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d0fb3d821a80c985f0e7c9193fa40cef026ffa3c984208dfef4b4615e72f7c0/ORDER.00_13_18_17.Still084.jpg" data-mid="207337268" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d0fb3d821a80c985f0e7c9193fa40cef026ffa3c984208dfef4b4615e72f7c0/ORDER.00_13_18_17.Still084.jpg" /> <img width="3578" height="2020" width_o="3578" height_o="2020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91e34e421c65343dd0e302c2d180b159b10c84541fc5305a19cb2012b02a7ee4/Screenshot-2024-03-22-at-13.25.39.png" data-mid="207337604" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91e34e421c65343dd0e302c2d180b159b10c84541fc5305a19cb2012b02a7ee4/Screenshot-2024-03-22-at-13.25.39.png" /> <img width="3580" height="2016" width_o="3580" height_o="2016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a36638534a08dfe469c03354756845adcd0a02719b38e229c5364e3bd39bf60d/Screenshot-2024-03-22-at-13.26.43.png" data-mid="207337606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a36638534a08dfe469c03354756845adcd0a02719b38e229c5364e3bd39bf60d/Screenshot-2024-03-22-at-13.26.43.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dd36d7405f56faac98291929e56544b6dc68f1510067d1712bf97296c632ff7/ORDER.00_12_50_01.Still083.jpg" data-mid="207337270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3dd36d7405f56faac98291929e56544b6dc68f1510067d1712bf97296c632ff7/ORDER.00_12_50_01.Still083.jpg" /> Installation views-&nbsp;Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of IMMA, 2025 <img width="4800" height="3200" width_o="4800" height_o="3200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/304c2b090b6452de08f1b2f7d22ace6b58edc0c9d73e8e31a6ca2ab662677d5f/IMM0525ST168.jpg" data-mid="237855993" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/304c2b090b6452de08f1b2f7d22ace6b58edc0c9d73e8e31a6ca2ab662677d5f/IMM0525ST168.jpg" /><img width="4800" height="3200" width_o="4800" height_o="3200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/348f0fda2043407be2fc79b7d551a88bfbd455ff7d71f06c2beb93045fb0a28d/IMM0525ST174.jpg" data-mid="237855995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/348f0fda2043407be2fc79b7d551a88bfbd455ff7d71f06c2beb93045fb0a28d/IMM0525ST174.jpg" /> &nbsp;Installation views. Against The Day @ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, 2024. Documentation: Tobias Hübel <img width="2800" height="2100" width_o="2800" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18aebd76246439984b391e1faa625d8ed36cb62c71b7cf2ddee4c444b83aecc4/33.jpg" data-mid="207347084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18aebd76246439984b391e1faa625d8ed36cb62c71b7cf2ddee4c444b83aecc4/33.jpg" /><img width="2700" height="1802" width_o="2700" height_o="1802" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/029166c22b5424185c1d0ad64955fbb425966329a084308dcc6d380823f74b1b/03_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_751159.jpg" data-mid="207347128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/029166c22b5424185c1d0ad64955fbb425966329a084308dcc6d380823f74b1b/03_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_751159.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae9c45ba2a9f38a4e03064770c50aa3e1a60a31f54cf575bf8b93c2f0d2a9176/04_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_02.jpg" data-mid="207344521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae9c45ba2a9f38a4e03064770c50aa3e1a60a31f54cf575bf8b93c2f0d2a9176/04_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_02.jpg" /><img width="3959" height="2970" width_o="3959" height_o="2970" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbf1904da3aaf3260e052c233832540d69805d539d0679fc28076e047bf0a162/08_krab-edit_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_06.jpg" data-mid="208182972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cbf1904da3aaf3260e052c233832540d69805d539d0679fc28076e047bf0a162/08_krab-edit_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_06.jpg" /><img width="2985" height="1993" width_o="2985" height_o="1993" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/694892de1fa2107f21cc4b4251d052fbba095856e898954cc07e9346e62d4aa2/10_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_751162.jpg" data-mid="207344571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/694892de1fa2107f21cc4b4251d052fbba095856e898954cc07e9346e62d4aa2/10_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_751162.jpg" /><img width="2965" height="3953" width_o="2965" height_o="3953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f06c855a939fcdd7cde945412898e391d0196de5ba83b9ba17752972f604e60/27_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_30.jpg" data-mid="207344574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f06c855a939fcdd7cde945412898e391d0196de5ba83b9ba17752972f604e60/27_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_30.jpg" /><img width="4057" height="3043" width_o="4057" height_o="3043" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9997b35bc87ce7a27985f14b161ee6262b3d137c7dd20e6b8a367b6681aff52d/21_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_29.jpg" data-mid="207344580" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9997b35bc87ce7a27985f14b161ee6262b3d137c7dd20e6b8a367b6681aff52d/21_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_29.jpg" /> <img width="3008" height="2008" width_o="3008" height_o="2008" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8258de30b52150912f667a4252ed116226429e83091c522ac9aa09813df90212/24_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_751174.jpg" data-mid="207344584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8258de30b52150912f667a4252ed116226429e83091c522ac9aa09813df90212/24_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_751174.jpg" /> Circle A. 2023 PerformanceConcept: Eoghan Ryan With Amina Szecsödy and Tomislav Feller Drummer: Bernardo Armanni Video Documentation: Roberta Segata Performance Stills: Pati Guimarães. Courtesy of IMMA. 2025 <img width="5780" height="3853" width_o="5780" height_o="3853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0f5a889409e8a2d58ff6ed5d40a1f143149c7850eaf45f4f62f5a943efbeaae/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes24.JPG" data-mid="237855919" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0f5a889409e8a2d58ff6ed5d40a1f143149c7850eaf45f4f62f5a943efbeaae/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes24.JPG" /><img width="5399" height="3599" width_o="5399" height_o="3599" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcace2bf1389764faae3f7b6214186732361bb009f9c46e743ee7dafe2c9b317/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes27.JPG" data-mid="237855920" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcace2bf1389764faae3f7b6214186732361bb009f9c46e743ee7dafe2c9b317/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes27.JPG" /><img width="1268" height="1902" width_o="1268" height_o="1902" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6284efc152b2f20ec89f7ca668095984fb6bb366fa4470fd9a8bc647825c31f/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes25.JPG" data-mid="237856482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6284efc152b2f20ec89f7ca668095984fb6bb366fa4470fd9a8bc647825c31f/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes25.JPG" /><img width="4029" height="2686" width_o="4029" height_o="2686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c81932c4824354955933a869b4679966a718fde61053644f2f2a8c80887c396e/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes32.JPG" data-mid="237855928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c81932c4824354955933a869b4679966a718fde61053644f2f2a8c80887c396e/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes32.JPG" /><img width="3520" height="2347" width_o="3520" height_o="2347" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b68ce0f221ffc6dc6ec62b05c7820a46669e8c3d567003c26fd72af38be0a76/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes52.JPG" data-mid="237855940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b68ce0f221ffc6dc6ec62b05c7820a46669e8c3d567003c26fd72af38be0a76/Terrapolis_IMMA25_patiguimaraes52.JPG" />Performance Stillls: Alessandro Sala and Andrea Nicotra <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2f7353e553e869097f624c02dc5915ccb8a9d2c1f0f640db2523f40c35d9b16/2023_Eoghan-Ryan_Circle-A_Cortile-Forgia_ph-Alessandro-Sala6-2.jpg" data-mid="207347584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2f7353e553e869097f624c02dc5915ccb8a9d2c1f0f640db2523f40c35d9b16/2023_Eoghan-Ryan_Circle-A_Cortile-Forgia_ph-Alessandro-Sala6-2.jpg" /> <img width="3908" height="2931" width_o="3908" height_o="2931" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2def1f3cf681542908bbf0c82d4554c5c26b3caaf25e4601f543cd74d9ad31e5/2023_Eoghan-Ryan_Circle-A_Cortile-Forgia_ph-Alessandro-Sala1.jpg" data-mid="207347593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2def1f3cf681542908bbf0c82d4554c5c26b3caaf25e4601f543cd74d9ad31e5/2023_Eoghan-Ryan_Circle-A_Cortile-Forgia_ph-Alessandro-Sala1.jpg" /><img width="5333" height="4000" width_o="5333" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74d03f98d39571e8d8887c6d14eabb459ad18364b78a650d45e0e1ee5f79e6af/2023_Eoghan-Ryan_Circle-A_Cortile-Forgia_ph-Andrea-Nicotra2.jpg" data-mid="207347936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74d03f98d39571e8d8887c6d14eabb459ad18364b78a650d45e0e1ee5f79e6af/2023_Eoghan-Ryan_Circle-A_Cortile-Forgia_ph-Andrea-Nicotra2.jpg" />Video Installation. Enclosed within an oversized circular black theatre curtain, the video installation Circle A places the viewer at the centre of a heavily edited conversation between five strangers, brought together by the artist for an afternoon inside an art bookshop. Their conversation reflects on the word Anarchy, and how the word is mediated through the imaginary and the real, the personal and the political. Cut alongside their conversation are interjections from the social theorist and orator Murray Bookchin, author of the 1995 book, ‘Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism’, as well hundreds of scanned newspaper clippings and footage from the Las Fallas festival, Valencia, a five-day celebration of fire and pyrotechnics. A soundtrack of drums, pops and explosions falls in and out of syncopation, providing driving rhythm and moments of rupture. If Anarchy is affirmed as a response to order, the film attempts to puts full emphasis on the word ‘response’. In other words, the work is a thought experiment on how to begin to undo a system.Sibgle channel version distributed by li-maComissioned by the Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg.Supported by the Grants of the Stiftung Niedersachsen for Media Art 2024 at the Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg. &nbsp;Performance. If your constantly stuck in the same drama that never ends, it’s not even tragedy. It’s not a good piece of art, it’s just a bad situation! Three performers wearing tap shoes, work within the constraints of the Circle A symbol sprayed to the floor. They are influenced by a live drummer and a deconstructed sound score, composed of evocative stems that come together and fall apart. The performers develop upon a tight set of actions. &nbsp;These actions are accompanied by &nbsp;lesser and greater degrees of agency, so how they interrelate in a system for a live audience becomes somewhat unpredictable. That’s why the performers need to experiment, for 45minutes, eliminating codification from all but one emergent, anticipatory level.Commissioned by Centrale Fies as part of Live Works 2023. Supported by Mondriaan Fonds Project Grant. https://eoghanryan.ie/Carceral-Jigs-2025 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:30:42 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Carceral-Jigs-2025 Back to Work ︎ Prev / Next ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Carceral Jigs. 2025 Video installation <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46512f3a4a05e8d8cfa790c1c2ff13107eb58fc03f3fba36bd2eee3511a4279e/Carceral_Jigs_Film-Still_1.jpg" data-mid="244619703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/46512f3a4a05e8d8cfa790c1c2ff13107eb58fc03f3fba36bd2eee3511a4279e/Carceral_Jigs_Film-Still_1.jpg" /> Carceral Jigs. 2025 Video Installation. 4KFull Running Time - 27mins 32 loopViewing copy on requestinfo@eoghanryan.ie Video Stills <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c187b2f5cb21fcd1dbb16431440b35a06119d5aa4eb9b7a8e9d439210d97ca4f/Carceral_Jigs_Film-Still_2.jpg" data-mid="244619704" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c187b2f5cb21fcd1dbb16431440b35a06119d5aa4eb9b7a8e9d439210d97ca4f/Carceral_Jigs_Film-Still_2.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d938ddb082e4160522d7f618557e222a28866027a0c7bb476f12dd35ff61d05/Carceral_Jigs_Film-Still_3.jpg" data-mid="244619705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d938ddb082e4160522d7f618557e222a28866027a0c7bb476f12dd35ff61d05/Carceral_Jigs_Film-Still_3.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1353b031da5225a3fe068ab674a04803cf051eb30f067078ebf9a81604d13cec/6.jpg" data-mid="244619702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1353b031da5225a3fe068ab674a04803cf051eb30f067078ebf9a81604d13cec/6.jpg" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a751db89625b0d04e4ad38af25ae6ee9beb935aaed55524b10b6e0340f596732/2.jpg" data-mid="244619701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a751db89625b0d04e4ad38af25ae6ee9beb935aaed55524b10b6e0340f596732/2.jpg" /> Installation views- Courtesy of EVA International, 2025<img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5e694b74a919f93b227a6a62ea93cc4605ee021b05801c41a42186b8737fcd4/__K8A0155.jpg" data-mid="244619732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5e694b74a919f93b227a6a62ea93cc4605ee021b05801c41a42186b8737fcd4/__K8A0155.jpg" /><img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a59e5ba04e22121c6067c6f20e1c16404d8cde7a9afa156c8b96b093d140beae/__K8A0161.jpg" data-mid="244619734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a59e5ba04e22121c6067c6f20e1c16404d8cde7a9afa156c8b96b093d140beae/__K8A0161.jpg" /><img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c104c3c6ff866be8641e5640b9c686877d6d34693d89c48bbafacdf31df7495/1.jpg" data-mid="245063050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c104c3c6ff866be8641e5640b9c686877d6d34693d89c48bbafacdf31df7495/1.jpg" /><img width="4320" height="2880" width_o="4320" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d958e94bac5eb701bbdd117f4e79da2f66d25f70a7e937eb457242cccb4eece/_K8A0518.JPG" data-mid="244619728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d958e94bac5eb701bbdd117f4e79da2f66d25f70a7e937eb457242cccb4eece/_K8A0518.JPG" /><img width="4320" height="2880" width_o="4320" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03b9275a68b122841bcda1a73729da139b5f32e452990e0a455fa657f56c287e/_K8A0553.JPG" data-mid="244619726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03b9275a68b122841bcda1a73729da139b5f32e452990e0a455fa657f56c287e/_K8A0553.JPG" /> Carceral Jigs (2025) excavates how the re-use of architectures of containment, for example, those outsourced by the Irish state to facilitate direct provision, often complicates and confuses nationalist identification. The film invites viewers to consider how control is choreographed and performed through culture, policy, media, and the built environment and how this spectacle of belonging is continually maintained and malformed by its systematic denial. Children’s television tropes, scenes of musical rehearsal, 3D puppetry, and linguistic tongue twisters are traced across anti-migration protests in Ireland and talking head documentary footage of activist Lucky Khambule, to expose mutations, contradictions, and shifting rhythms within Irish nationalism today. Credits.&nbsp; Production- Erratas Film 3D- Erratas Camera assistance (Holiday camp)- Leah Crabé Camera (Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann) - Helio León Sound Recording (Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann) - John Lyons Voice-work - Milly Burke Cunningham Color Grading - Michael Higgins Sound Mix and Mastering - Killian FitzGerald Musicians Liana Glynn Cormac Ó hAodha Maeve McCann Caty Cleary Daragh Ó Duibhir Baoill Commissioned by EVA International 2025. Supported by Mondriaan Fonds Project Grant and DLRCoCo With thanks to Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Ireland and Lucky Khambule at MASI Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland. https://eoghanryan.ie/Doggerel Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:31:47 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Doggerel Back to Work ︎ Prev / Next ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Doggerel, 2022 Video installation.4K/UHD for three screens.Full Running Time - 13mins 57secs loop.Viewing copy on request info@eoghanryan.ieDistributed by&nbsp;li-maCommissioned by Busan Biennale 2022With support from Culture Ireland and the Arts Council Ireland. Video Stills <img width="16798" height="3150" width_o="16798" height_o="3150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19c442c7e6a6e210ad9e230b6dbdde3f35e0172a77518003c6ebccc2d9901847/1.jpg" data-mid="161025642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19c442c7e6a6e210ad9e230b6dbdde3f35e0172a77518003c6ebccc2d9901847/1.jpg" /> <img width="16798" height="3150" width_o="16798" height_o="3150" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3802164368d3b4504add9f2f057ed081e17c2d3168f71f2b54bb9a59bf3abfc9/2.jpg" data-mid="161025640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3802164368d3b4504add9f2f057ed081e17c2d3168f71f2b54bb9a59bf3abfc9/2.jpg" /> <img width="6299" height="1181" width_o="6299" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d586cfed82cf86209e55f42e0f9f632bc021646ae33658f1af983d3f6174badf/website.mp4.00_08_13_27.Still001.jpg" data-mid="161267722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d586cfed82cf86209e55f42e0f9f632bc021646ae33658f1af983d3f6174badf/website.mp4.00_08_13_27.Still001.jpg" /> Installation ViewsDoggerel@ Against the Day. Edith Russ Haus. 2024. Photos: Tobias H <img width="4039" height="3029" width_o="4039" height_o="3029" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a96bd2d5cacb438fb231ea49609734a59fe13769dcf0b05b7e371a3fcb8149e/66_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_17.jpg" data-mid="207349712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a96bd2d5cacb438fb231ea49609734a59fe13769dcf0b05b7e371a3fcb8149e/66_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_17.jpg" /><img width="4039" height="3029" width_o="4039" height_o="3029" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0be676b686284c23e4b46827c618c66cbfe3f5c004b1fcad81e82be09023356e/65_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_16.jpg" data-mid="207349723" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0be676b686284c23e4b46827c618c66cbfe3f5c004b1fcad81e82be09023356e/65_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_16.jpg" /> Doggerel@ Busan Biennale 2022Photos: Sang-tae Kim. Courtesy of Busan Biennale Organizing Comittee <img width="6144" height="4098" width_o="6144" height_o="4098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fbccb8d378a315e41627d12fde5f269f0ee7caad19b62f0155eb0b45398751b/DOGGEREL_WEBSITE_2.jpg" data-mid="161264102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fbccb8d378a315e41627d12fde5f269f0ee7caad19b62f0155eb0b45398751b/DOGGEREL_WEBSITE_2.jpg" /><img width="5100" height="3402" width_o="5100" height_o="3402" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e249fb2ed62cfc7852b3e61bfd0a38cdaebca2386e5a988afcf4449877a7335/5.jpg" data-mid="161273597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e249fb2ed62cfc7852b3e61bfd0a38cdaebca2386e5a988afcf4449877a7335/5.jpg" /><img width="6144" height="4098" width_o="6144" height_o="4098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/932386a6963d117a971803766d3f3c6355453b0925b95ed2ead76798b8b61271/WEBSITE_6.jpg" data-mid="161264862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/932386a6963d117a971803766d3f3c6355453b0925b95ed2ead76798b8b61271/WEBSITE_6.jpg" /><img width="3832" height="4914" width_o="3832" height_o="4914" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c33953b210903d33b8c4b27f4e1240856b8ea43b577d40197304971c76b32e9/DOGGEREL_WEBSITE_1.jpg" data-mid="161264387" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c33953b210903d33b8c4b27f4e1240856b8ea43b577d40197304971c76b32e9/DOGGEREL_WEBSITE_1.jpg" /> In &nbsp;‘Doggerel’, which takes its name from a middle english term used to describe comic, badly written verse,&nbsp; the conditions in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, as seen through Oskar’s eyes are linked with the current situation in the early twenty-first century. This being one of contested migration and border enforcement both personal and political. Oskar stands by his own grave, composing irregular rhyming verse and playing his drum, as the edit cuts between images of a Miniature Europe and the conflicts that borders create. Rhythmically paralleling the nationalist tragedies of the past with those of today.Voiceover - Amina Szecsödy 3D - Pacôme LeRouge Second Camera - Fan Liao Drums- Eitan Efrat https://eoghanryan.ie/A-Sod-State-2021-22 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:21:10 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/A-Sod-State-2021-22 Back to Work ︎ Prev / Next ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; A Sod State, 2021/22Video installation / Single Channel Video<img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3bcc72d50f5f218a15d7128bc39c55c47a917fce022283002ea14309d387e36/A_Sod_State_2021_FILM_STILL.jpg" data-mid="139406527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3bcc72d50f5f218a15d7128bc39c55c47a917fce022283002ea14309d387e36/A_Sod_State_2021_FILM_STILL.jpg" />A Sod State.4K/UHDFull Running Time - 22mins&nbsp;Viewing copy on request info@eoghanryan.ie Distributed by&nbsp;li-ma Video Stills<img width="3150" height="1772" width_o="3150" height_o="1772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/739a59fa33832b35e2701adf90c95af313f6ba98d67c92e5a960ab2b7e3d753f/2.jpg" data-mid="139406606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/739a59fa33832b35e2701adf90c95af313f6ba98d67c92e5a960ab2b7e3d753f/2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/544074c430a1c20f03421fb5c01033bcbe540037ef74eecb4c99f3a49ecba60c/Screenshot-2024-02-26-at-16.33.19.jpg" data-mid="207349136" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/544074c430a1c20f03421fb5c01033bcbe540037ef74eecb4c99f3a49ecba60c/Screenshot-2024-02-26-at-16.33.19.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0dfc31c85ea435fd83df0d0b4524c8f6f4c6dcbf888db6cedec5af3ffc6fa0c/sod4.jpg" data-mid="161282395" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0dfc31c85ea435fd83df0d0b4524c8f6f4c6dcbf888db6cedec5af3ffc6fa0c/sod4.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b16d0cb5f9402d4a89a12bac081ed08faa460b762e39b727c815f3d00369019a/Screenshot-2024-02-26-at-16.40.34.jpg" data-mid="207349157" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b16d0cb5f9402d4a89a12bac081ed08faa460b762e39b727c815f3d00369019a/Screenshot-2024-02-26-at-16.40.34.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68f2c1cb00c6783a553c92b02a0976bebe393a5d7c2240eb4f9c873499541850/Screenshot-2024-02-26-at-16.25.48.jpg" data-mid="207349152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68f2c1cb00c6783a553c92b02a0976bebe393a5d7c2240eb4f9c873499541850/Screenshot-2024-02-26-at-16.25.48.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/705c49cc75578ef2832694a46ca2ec7d537f67a3b2a020681232bb25d7a59c13/Screenshot-2024-02-26-at-16.05.36.jpg" data-mid="207349154" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/705c49cc75578ef2832694a46ca2ec7d537f67a3b2a020681232bb25d7a59c13/Screenshot-2024-02-26-at-16.05.36.jpg" /> &nbsp; A Sod State@Against the Day. Photo:Tobias Hübel <img width="3921" height="2941" width_o="3921" height_o="2941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78aadbbfe3abbdea956a509813c170b9d0cd61e2e96e905a0bc0fc0d4cc92e27/48_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_09.jpg" data-mid="207348604" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78aadbbfe3abbdea956a509813c170b9d0cd61e2e96e905a0bc0fc0d4cc92e27/48_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_09.jpg" /> <img width="3974" height="2981" width_o="3974" height_o="2981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a8e59dae2d84739b0f5591ddcfcb27e49e65756786172d623027b3fe8257e6f/53_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_14.jpg" data-mid="207348615" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a8e59dae2d84739b0f5591ddcfcb27e49e65756786172d623027b3fe8257e6f/53_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_14.jpg" /><img width="2761" height="1843" width_o="2761" height_o="1843" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e876d778313dacab29548ede485acefd7d77497a6cb03b4511c4ac7d81338b8/56_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_751197.jpg" data-mid="207348626" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e876d778313dacab29548ede485acefd7d77497a6cb03b4511c4ac7d81338b8/56_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_751197.jpg" /> A Sod State @Visio 2021. Photo: Federica Di Giovani <img width="5460" height="3640" width_o="5460" height_o="3640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5eee5a0bb3e3020631dbc90af761b6788e815695360f9376a65aab38b16ece86/01_Visio_MaxRis__DGL5700.jpg" data-mid="139408281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5eee5a0bb3e3020631dbc90af761b6788e815695360f9376a65aab38b16ece86/01_Visio_MaxRis__DGL5700.jpg" />A Sod State@Rijksakademie Open Studio’s 2022. Photo - Tomek-Dersu-Aaron <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5449063f50d6ac4a5a505cd2238d38c840bd63e61792a1d2ca4e0248b266caf8/_2021-06-16_11_Eoghan-Ryan_Tomek-Dersu-Aaron_186.jpg" data-mid="139408479" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5449063f50d6ac4a5a505cd2238d38c840bd63e61792a1d2ca4e0248b266caf8/_2021-06-16_11_Eoghan-Ryan_Tomek-Dersu-Aaron_186.jpg" /><img width="3762" height="2685" width_o="3762" height_o="2685" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39cd17920afab9e623b192a0b90f8cfb29d37a08e04249b3da7112a7f1519301/3.jpeg" data-mid="139406605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39cd17920afab9e623b192a0b90f8cfb29d37a08e04249b3da7112a7f1519301/3.jpeg" /> <img width="2667" height="4000" width_o="2667" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c393a8a044124df34a3ad4d93b8cf9258469222210c43ad5821fc24e73ea00c/_2021-06-16_11_Eoghan-Ryan_Tomek-Dersu-Aaron_181.jpeg" data-mid="139408429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c393a8a044124df34a3ad4d93b8cf9258469222210c43ad5821fc24e73ea00c/_2021-06-16_11_Eoghan-Ryan_Tomek-Dersu-Aaron_181.jpeg" /> <img width="3982" height="2655" width_o="3982" height_o="2655" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8004cd0b5add6557b08373e9789968e0f2e6c1aaa812860da5995844a5ad640/The_Fountain-copy.jpg" data-mid="139415476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8004cd0b5add6557b08373e9789968e0f2e6c1aaa812860da5995844a5ad640/The_Fountain-copy.jpg" /> 'Sod’ or turf is wet, fertile ground; it is also slang British for someone that is difficult or causes problems, and ‘sod all’, as in - absolutely nothing. ‘State’ is the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time, as much as it is a nation or territory considered as an organised political community”. &nbsp; A Sod State looks to conflicting themes of religion, statehood, state power, and spectatorship through the lens of the Northern Irish Troubles. The film unravels a world of untrustworthy narration, wandering sounds, strobing imagery and disarray. It is a tale of a corrupted, often censored, surreal and confused state of affairs, [RR1]&nbsp;in which, an inner demagogue is manifested. This creature, or puppet, is not quite god, not quite devil, and performs binary contradictions of class, faith, identity, and borders; private, public, and political. &nbsp; A Sod State posits the Troubles in an alarmingly present tense, reconfigured as a time out of joint. Confusing memory and media, the film draws heavily from manipulated archival footage, juxtaposing it with images of recent post-Brexit media coverage. As such, it becomes an example of repetitive political theatre; a spectacle watched and consumed through TV screens and newspaper articles. https://eoghanryan.ie/Truly-Rural-2019 Tue, 05 May 2020 15:40:35 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Truly-Rural-2019 Back to Work ︎ Prev / Next ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Truly Rural, 2019Video installation and performance<img width="2640" height="1622" width_o="2640" height_o="1622" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da0f037833ab0e6b8c5a20a429e0a5f755c09ee4c8d1fb201bed6e2bb5e94dc5/TR_STILL.jpg" data-mid="69758566" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/da0f037833ab0e6b8c5a20a429e0a5f755c09ee4c8d1fb201bed6e2bb5e94dc5/TR_STILL.jpg" />Video Installation4K/UHDFull Running Time - 18mins loopViewing copy on request info@eoghanryan.ie Video Stills <img width="1878" height="1053" width_o="1878" height_o="1053" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66e4a45c6b36ae7ba8f4cbc66171a13415c7bcc8e30fd5b324bc040a5cb5283a/Screen-Shot-2020-02-05-at-3.36.32-PM.png" data-mid="69759166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66e4a45c6b36ae7ba8f4cbc66171a13415c7bcc8e30fd5b324bc040a5cb5283a/Screen-Shot-2020-02-05-at-3.36.32-PM.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d63e2d4c063a4f6c141fa127fb083d95a624ab048516ea485c173e21ed3e6496/truly-9.jpg" data-mid="161283828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d63e2d4c063a4f6c141fa127fb083d95a624ab048516ea485c173e21ed3e6496/truly-9.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4aeece6a8d5c75a12567423933af3974ca31173f72a35e8ed682213c82f8a605/trul6.jpg" data-mid="161283815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4aeece6a8d5c75a12567423933af3974ca31173f72a35e8ed682213c82f8a605/trul6.jpg" /> <img width="1869" height="1053" width_o="1869" height_o="1053" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0db1492141795237f8372a29c5991d15328687cdc74ab986af93e7190bfd25e4/Screen-Shot-2020-02-05-at-3.45.11-PM.png" data-mid="69759163" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0db1492141795237f8372a29c5991d15328687cdc74ab986af93e7190bfd25e4/Screen-Shot-2020-02-05-at-3.45.11-PM.png" /> &nbsp;Installation views. Contamination @&nbsp;Kunstverein Freiburg, 2021 . Photo: Marc Doradzillo. <img width="1440" height="1920" width_o="1440" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c82387cab22ca39ad2f67423e550439390bfefc91547d3f72611c55fa1a1bf93/KV-Konatmination_0402web.jpeg" data-mid="123376318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c82387cab22ca39ad2f67423e550439390bfefc91547d3f72611c55fa1a1bf93/KV-Konatmination_0402web.jpeg" /> <img width="1920" height="1277" width_o="1920" height_o="1277" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f4660b92ba86731ee048c4020f9a2c204e797e913fa4593770c04fd5e6122e5/KV-Konatmination_0636web.jpeg" data-mid="123376319" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f4660b92ba86731ee048c4020f9a2c204e797e913fa4593770c04fd5e6122e5/KV-Konatmination_0636web.jpeg" /> Truly Rural&nbsp;@ Against The Day 2024. Photo: Tobias Hübel <img width="4017" height="3013" width_o="4017" height_o="3013" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c121046ed211efa036a780b360a04036939c610e1f8ff31a693183eaf685de32/69_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_19.jpg" data-mid="207350802" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c121046ed211efa036a780b360a04036939c610e1f8ff31a693183eaf685de32/69_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_19.jpg" /><img width="3871" height="2904" width_o="3871" height_o="2904" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20c7ae60a9302317f34f2c8805ba073d6aa1b2f2bc8c07503b0e5ffb1b09278a/72_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_22.jpg" data-mid="207350840" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20c7ae60a9302317f34f2c8805ba073d6aa1b2f2bc8c07503b0e5ffb1b09278a/72_EoghanRyan_AgainstTheDay_c_photo_EdithRussHaus2024_22.jpg" />Truly Rural @ Rijksakademie Open Studio’s 2019: Gert Jan van Rooij <img width="4601" height="2977" width_o="4601" height_o="2977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee659778bd002a2a1ab0beb053fab0def0241624fd3beaf51a0f512596dee179/tr-install_shot2.jpg" data-mid="69759340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee659778bd002a2a1ab0beb053fab0def0241624fd3beaf51a0f512596dee179/tr-install_shot2.jpg" /> <img width="5511" height="3599" width_o="5511" height_o="3599" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29c00692e81df9e2913309f8231c308c691a82e8a614fa070b15b5906eb613a8/tr-install_shot_2.jpg" data-mid="69759349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29c00692e81df9e2913309f8231c308c691a82e8a614fa070b15b5906eb613a8/tr-install_shot_2.jpg" /> PerformanceWith Alexandra Tveit, Raoni Muzho Saleh, Stefan Govaart, Tristan Al-Hinnawi and Çigdem Polat.Mix by Daniel Iinatti.Performance Registration - Arvo Leo @ Rijksakademie Open Studio’s 2019 Video documentation on request <img width="3364" height="1888" width_o="3364" height_o="1888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e9ddb329b783c5090f9636672375b1b87df644a46b3571e78aa29d986ca986d/7.jpg" data-mid="69760166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e9ddb329b783c5090f9636672375b1b87df644a46b3571e78aa29d986ca986d/7.jpg" /> <img width="2738" height="1696" width_o="2738" height_o="1696" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc747da06e1e0d7c95493e1934959e7a38886dade4cf6e99b4f956987d6e19f0/3.jpg" data-mid="69760184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc747da06e1e0d7c95493e1934959e7a38886dade4cf6e99b4f956987d6e19f0/3.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c41a62e488fc13f99f0f9f30a1a2ebdeb2f36d7232ccfd8549406fe15d90107/8.jpg" data-mid="69760186" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c41a62e488fc13f99f0f9f30a1a2ebdeb2f36d7232ccfd8549406fe15d90107/8.jpg" /> <img width="2196" height="1280" width_o="2196" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45fcd7e85facd5a385a6ceb58b24520e3bd2f6a99ee92e163a927a5ec6016e2a/42.jpg" data-mid="69760190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45fcd7e85facd5a385a6ceb58b24520e3bd2f6a99ee92e163a927a5ec6016e2a/42.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6023d885351ca020ca082ca2b8994349ccdd4a24045199c2b3325a046226bb9a/21.jpg" data-mid="69760198" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6023d885351ca020ca082ca2b8994349ccdd4a24045199c2b3325a046226bb9a/21.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ef9300b0792a0eed22e2d6d6ce34aa2307d8c049174f43479082250d0c46935/16.jpg" data-mid="69760261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ef9300b0792a0eed22e2d6d6ce34aa2307d8c049174f43479082250d0c46935/16.jpg" /> <img width="2840" height="1590" width_o="2840" height_o="1590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/650fc0d9a8c122e5fc22d53422613721a6f3d02b04ed07c79b540ee45935aa75/47.jpg" data-mid="69760266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/650fc0d9a8c122e5fc22d53422613721a6f3d02b04ed07c79b540ee45935aa75/47.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/188cb476b96a094073b94ac6588b74180a6e320794445607e18bfdc606256ac0/39.jpg" data-mid="69760362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/188cb476b96a094073b94ac6588b74180a6e320794445607e18bfdc606256ac0/39.jpg" /> <img width="1756" height="1020" width_o="1756" height_o="1020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6eaace477832f15b5d38d5eba5c3c4c23761088a49446ba366c8991467607f8c/41.jpg" data-mid="69760437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6eaace477832f15b5d38d5eba5c3c4c23761088a49446ba366c8991467607f8c/41.jpg" /> <img width="2074" height="1255" width_o="2074" height_o="1255" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1852bbe977964a517be2c3a86816041a854bf28b44407ef6a6047e22a2def72d/1.jpg" data-mid="69760642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1852bbe977964a517be2c3a86816041a854bf28b44407ef6a6047e22a2def72d/1.jpg" /> Filmic registration at Kunstfort bij VijfhuizenEdited by Fan Liao Video. Truly Rural (2019) is an account of the German countryside as an environment where eruptions of disgust and social disorder lurk. Combining unrehearsed interviews and documentary techniques with a heavy post production process in order to unfold the southern German tradition of 'Fasching' (carnival) alongside the rekindling the outbreak of mad cow disease as an allegory for current rise of far right, fascist tendencies throughout Europe. A doll with clown make-up acts as both protagonist and mouthpiece.&nbsp; Performance. Building on herd behaviour and the movements of sick cows’ bodies, in which five dancers enter into interactions in which the intimate and formal regularly turns into the repulsive. Attention, spectatorship and cultural contagion become a choreographic strategy, exploring the group as a creature in relation to the dynamics of institutional life. https://eoghanryan.ie/Virtuous-Floaters-2017 Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:48:25 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Virtuous-Floaters-2017 Back to Work ︎ Prev / Next ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Virtuous Floaters, 2017 HD video Full running time: 6 min loop https://eoghanryan.ie/Cut-it-off-at-the-trunk-2017 Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:57:31 +0000 Eoghan Ryan https://eoghanryan.ie/Cut-it-off-at-the-trunk-2017 Back to Work ︎ Prev / Next ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Cut it off at the trunk, 2017 Video Installation, ink drawings, stained glass <img width="1459" height="806" width_o="1459" height_o="806" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f0a3137f1c85dbd1482b9810ea4d9d085eb899da828dbe8b694120fe82790d7/Screenshot-2020-03-30-at-10.42.03.png" data-mid="65039847" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f0a3137f1c85dbd1482b9810ea4d9d085eb899da828dbe8b694120fe82790d7/Screenshot-2020-03-30-at-10.42.03.png" /> 9:16 HD Full running time - 21min loopViewing copy on request info@eoghanryan.ieExcerpt Installation views <img width="1200" height="795" width_o="1200" height_o="795" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5755d63ca139bef316a780f0f1c0b52c7e8802cd2ed43be087d1fcb3dc82dbcb/Cut-it-off_2.jpg" data-mid="53714779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5755d63ca139bef316a780f0f1c0b52c7e8802cd2ed43be087d1fcb3dc82dbcb/Cut-it-off_2.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecb5708121484bde6a85d1354e9b1512c8d53c3f303c5e34f10b73081caac00c/Cut-it-off_5.jpg" data-mid="53714784" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecb5708121484bde6a85d1354e9b1512c8d53c3f303c5e34f10b73081caac00c/Cut-it-off_5.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="799" width_o="1200" height_o="799" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3664b567edb7ad62ee01bf1608c2c2507f62bd4d047862d4a2dac40b1fd9731/Cut-it-off_7.jpg" data-mid="53714787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3664b567edb7ad62ee01bf1608c2c2507f62bd4d047862d4a2dac40b1fd9731/Cut-it-off_7.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="808" width_o="1200" height_o="808" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f10d22275b10fd9699575ffc60fa08d37af6327c06cbf49357bb51abedf9193a/Cut-it-off_1.jpg" data-mid="53714778" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f10d22275b10fd9699575ffc60fa08d37af6327c06cbf49357bb51abedf9193a/Cut-it-off_1.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1709" width_o="1200" height_o="1709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b46c05c5dd8aaa3cdae00dc5fb9e818142052608341370db45b91276f181d47/Cut-it-off_8_detail.jpg" data-mid="53714789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b46c05c5dd8aaa3cdae00dc5fb9e818142052608341370db45b91276f181d47/Cut-it-off_8_detail.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1680" width_o="1200" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff0b0377946ecbf1a3fff7ac12df8c672f48f1ab7e9eb2ca4427b35a7f8b0a3c/Cut-it-off_9_detail.jpg" data-mid="53714790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff0b0377946ecbf1a3fff7ac12df8c672f48f1ab7e9eb2ca4427b35a7f8b0a3c/Cut-it-off_9_detail.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1507" width_o="1200" height_o="1507" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a06886408338734dc300ae7ae70e310725113d5f44207ce01b7c8f4cceaceb6/Cut-it-off_10.jpg" data-mid="53714792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a06886408338734dc300ae7ae70e310725113d5f44207ce01b7c8f4cceaceb6/Cut-it-off_10.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cfefd61e5ef03ea0f75bfb6b4af500ae96354d74be0a582531b03fc90dfbe1e/Cut-it-off_11_detail.jpg" data-mid="53714793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cfefd61e5ef03ea0f75bfb6b4af500ae96354d74be0a582531b03fc90dfbe1e/Cut-it-off_11_detail.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="761" width_o="1200" height_o="761" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5522e541c2895a8a704232e2c666022403a23def7b93987a5e3bf4fe54877cfb/Cut-it-off_12_detail.jpg" data-mid="53714795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5522e541c2895a8a704232e2c666022403a23def7b93987a5e3bf4fe54877cfb/Cut-it-off_12_detail.jpg" /> Intimacy is a promise, a kind of economy and debt. Like any other contractual obligation it comes with subclauses as well as written, spoken, and often imagined terms and conditions. It rarely, if ever, comes with a warranty or a health and safety form, which would save more than one of us from the bitter pill of unfulfilled expectation and a history of STDs. In as much as a contract suggests a kind of agreement or settlement, an intimate exchange includes the potential for hesitation or misunderstanding. When one agrees to be intimate with another, one accepts that such bumps are part of the contract; a small, at times large, deposit to be paid in hope of a greater reward. Although it can be consensual and mutually sought, the virtual contract of intimacy might also be acquired or passed on, like a will or inheritance. The already encoded family unit, for instance, enacts a forceful contract amongst its member’s bodies via blood cells, DNA histories and chemical imbalances. The possibility of intimacy by contract is most clearly represented in the figures of the analyst and the analysand within the psychoanalytical situation, something explored by Leo Bersani and Adam Philips in their co- authored book Intimacies. In the first chapter of the book, intimacy –within psychoanalysis– is considered as built from the ‘gift’ of knowledge, from the patient, in exchange for understanding, facilitated by the analyst. Acknowledging the lack of equal footing between both parties, the book imagines how a similar type of engagement might survive outside the psychoanalytical paradigm, as “an original device to start two people on the way to intimacy, to thwart their intimacy, and finally to allow them to drop the analytic conceit and to be intimate” (Bersani, 2008, p.11). Further, Philips’ definition of psychoanalysis as “what two people can say to each other if they agree not to have sex” sets the conditions that would allow for an intimate relation founded on agreement and contractual binding. Without it, intimacy risks the blurry ground between desire and need, projection and reality. Cut it off at the trunk,&nbsp;considers how an intimate exchange between himself and his father might be facilitated through the contract of art production and its multifaceted modes of permission and display. From this premise, he seeks to probe the positions, cultural inscriptions and power dynamics embedded in the erotics of the father and son relationship. Throughout the exhibition, the image of the bucket –both object and metaphor– recurs as a device that enables moments of unity and division. Painted directly on a wall, a diagram outlines the steps of construction to build this bucket. The task’s realisation –one that seems to have been previously performed, built and dismantled, with the bucket now in parts hanging meticulously on a wall– is loaded with a certain level of choreographed libidinal masculinity, coded within a warranted system of physical connection. Here, one imagines it as a kind of bonding exercise between Ryan and his father, “man to man, step by step”, as instructed by the seller of the bucket during a conversation that appears typed in Ryan’s new 9:16 film that takes the exhibition’s title. In the film, banal intimacies and aggressions both performed and consented open up questions that defy emotional, sexual and generational norms; “I want to piss on him”, reads a subtitle that is sometimes used to embody Ryan’s voice but mostly that of his therapist who imparts commentary as diagnosis. The desire is at once both real and imagined –too perverse to enact but too gratifying to ignore. Just as the bucket facilitates a site of connection and mutual understanding, a series of graphic black and white ink drawings open a visual space of convergence between Ryan’s and his father’s disparate subjectivities. The imagery –seemingly sourced from a variety of contexts, physical and virtual– contrasts and exposes different forms of pain, suffering and shame, toying with the possibilities of their iterations of both violence and pleasure. A drawing of doubtful Thomas fingering Jesus’ wound appears alongside a diagram of an erection pump; a soft teddy dressed in tight leather gear is ‘knifed’ from its back and is pictured dead, yet, of course, was never actually alive; a rather unhappy-looking Donald Duck holds an empty bucket, the contents of which seem to have been poured on him, perhaps by him, as part of a sick joke or hazing ritual. As if trying to digest his and his father’s divergent definitions of desire, Ryan commits to paper imagery that is both arousing and disturbing, alarming and reassuring, as a way of speaking and feeling freely what might otherwise be left unsaid. If Ryan’s attempt to create intimacy with his father is both a private and public act mediated by the contract of making and presenting work, his father’s agreement to partake in such processes is based on equal investment in the forms through which their connection can be enacted. What is compelling about this is Ryan’s father’s understanding of the systems of display associated with the production and distribution of Ryan’s work, and thus his desire to be a part of them, complicit in their making. Having created up the environment for intimacy to flourish –an act akin to “consensual sex” as Ryan’s therapist describes it– one is left to wonder how far that is actually possible, beyond and in spite of their mutual agreement. Excerpt from essay by Eliel Jones Documentation courtesy of Rowing, London