Carceral Jigs, 2025 by Eoghan Ryan was presented at STARLING as part of the 41st EVA International Guest Programme It Takes a Village, curated by Eszter Szakács in collaboration with the EVA team.
The video installation used children’s television tropes, scenes of musical rehearsal, 3D puppetry, and linguistic tongue twisters which were 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 invited 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.
41st EVA International 29 August - 26 October 2025.
Image courtesy of the artist and EVA International.
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Terrible Simplifiers (2026).
Synced animation across two LED advertising panels facing Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul, a major site of public assembly and political demonstration. The work appears intermittently between advertisements for the duration of the exhibition.
Full running time: 1min 40secs
Curated by @jiijijiijieon
Commissioned by @ilminmuseumofart
Animation by @gwonsoman
CG Animation by @e_r_r_a_t_a.s for Eoghan Ryan, Carceral Jigs (2025) Single screen video installation, color, sound, 27:32min, 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: @erratasfilm Image courtesy of the artist and EVA International #CGI #houdini #substancepainter #blender #VFX #3danimation #unrealengine #animationart #videoart #3dmodeling #3dart
It’s a good time to share documentation from last year when A Sod State was shown at @complexdublin (April 2024) curated by @marysia_wieckiewicz and facilitated by @mark_o_gorman . The complex provides a space and a program that does not exist anywhere else. That carries a city much further than big pockets.
Photos @louishaugh
supported by @artscouncilireland
#savethecomplex
My show opens later today at @haus_fuer_medienkunst and hopefully it opens up a few questions. It is a show that’s been in the making for a year and I wanna say thanks for the important conversations with the institution in the last weeks, and for the amazing support and the incredible build up from all the people working here.
