Videostills Courtesy Eoghan Ryan
Eoghan Ryan
Carceral Jigs (2025)
Single screen video installation, color, sound, 27:32min
CG Animation: 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
Production: Erratas Film
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.
Videostills Courtesy Eoghan Ryan
A video installation that uses children’s television tropes, scenes of musical rehearsal, 3D puppetry, and linguistic tongue twisters which are traced across documentary interviews, archival footage, and recent protest recordings to expose mutations, contradictions, and shifting rhythms within Irish nationalism today. Employing filmed material from operational holiday camps, the video 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.
Carceral Jigs 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 often maintained and malformed by denying it to others.
Eoghan Ryan‘s work engages video installation, performance, puppetry, text and collage to explore the intricacies of how power is communicated through mediated culture. His process involves long periods of filming and editing; documenting a specific person, place, object, or song and through this developing fable-like takes on the collective and the personal as institutions. His complete video installations and performances often question how personal proximity shapes our understanding of ourselves and others within the structural and socio-political constraints of cultural inheritance, identity construction and belief systems.
Eoghan Ryan
Carceral Jigs (2025)
Single screen video installation, color, sound, 27:32min
CG Animation: 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
Production: Erratas Film
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.
Selected Press
Ibraaz Publishing - In the Cut by Naeem Mohaiemen
eflux criticism - 41st EVA International, “It Takes a Village” by Isobel Harbison
ArtReview - 41st EVA International Review: Come Together by Declan Long
Frieze Magazine - It Takes a Village to Bring EVA International to Life by Diana Bamimeke
A video installation that uses children’s television tropes, scenes of musical rehearsal, 3D puppetry, and linguistic tongue twisters which are traced across documentary interviews, archival footage, and recent protest recordings to expose mutations, contradictions, and shifting rhythms within Irish nationalism today. Employing filmed material from operational holiday camps, the video 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.
Carceral Jigs 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 often maintained and malformed by denying it to others.
Eoghan Ryan‘s work engages video installation, performance, puppetry, text and collage to explore the intricacies of how power is communicated through mediated culture. His process involves long periods of filming and editing; documenting a specific person, place, object, or song and through this developing fable-like takes on the collective and the personal as institutions. His complete video installations and performances often question how personal proximity shapes our understanding of ourselves and others within the structural and socio-political constraints of cultural inheritance, identity construction and belief systems.
Selected Press
Ibraaz Publishing - In the Cut by Naeem Mohaiemen
eflux criticism - 41st EVA International, “It Takes a Village” by Isobel Harbison
ArtReview - 41st EVA International Review: Come Together by Declan Long
Frieze Magazine - It Takes a Village to Bring EVA International to Life by Diana Bamimeke