Pádraic Barrett is GlogauAIR resident
from July, 2024 to September, 2024
Ireland
Meet the Artist
Coming soon
Statement
My work is a response to techno-capitalist structures and explores alternative vantage points in the realm of the Anthropocene, that contains a mapping of futurity. By placing the queer body in a suspended and simulated space in time, I allude to the activation of a state of heterotopia and imagine other ways of being in the world. I merge performance, film and installation to explore human and machine agency through bodily and technological frameworks that can open a space for reflection on the nature of our contemporary experience.
These complex relationships are interrogated through nonhuman imagery and post-human landscapes, casting resonances on how the current world is constructed. This demonstrates how the body can mediate the tension between cinematic modes and how we live our lives. Explorations of the social and spatial experience to the ubiquity of machines are impressed upon by fictional frameworks that have a direct port into our lives. The work seeks out political imagination and presents a modelling of worlds past and future as a mode of thinking, sensing and seeing across time.
GlogauAIR Project
I am proposing a new performance and multimedia installation during my time at GlogauAIR. The work is an interdisciplinary response to the extractive means of capitalism in contemporary life. The implications of industry, machinery and contemporary systems on the body and environment, and the relationship between living and nonliving as put by Debord, aims to question the tension between progress and regress. I wish to draw on the Situationist’ theory of counteracting the Spectacle, by means of constructing live moments, as well as employing Debord’s use of détournement, which involves the use of spectacular imagery to disrupt the flow of the spectacle. The aim for this form of public engagement is to rethink how we view extractive capitalism, labour and the environment. How does acceleration impact the body and planet, and what does it mean to slow down? This is a question I am asking through the performative aspect of this work, drawing agency back to the human.
CV Summary
Education & Training
- 2020-2021 MA (1:1) Art and Process, Crawford College of Art and Design
- 2020 IMMA Summer School Art and Politics #Statecraft
- 2015-2019 BA (1:1) Fine Art, Crawford College of Art and Design
Exhibitions
- Upcoming
- The Lab Gallery, INTER_SITE exhibition, Dublin, March 2025
- Solo
- Machination, The Municipal Corporation of Culture of San Joaquin, Santiago, Chile, April 2023
- The Engineering of Consent II, Marina Warehouse, Cork, July 2021
- Group
- Error: /Undefined, Pallas Projects Artist-Initiated Exhibition, Dublin, October 2023
- Oscillation: An Altering Rhythm, Stamp festival, The Counting House, Cork, May, 2023
- Sluice Screens, IMT Gallery, London, December 2022
- Lisbon Art Fair, PADA x Sluice curator-led project, Lisbon, November 2022
- PADA Studios exhibition, Lisbon, August 2022
- After Light: These Dark Citizens, The National Sculpture Factory, Cork, June 2022
- Quare, Cork Midsummer Festival, St. Anne’s Park, Cork, June 2022
- INTER_SITE x Timpeall, K-fest, Kerry, June 2022
- INTER_SITE x Old Queen’s Castle, Cork, May 2022
- Pulsating P(l)ace, Faoin Spéir, Backwater Artists Group, Wandesford Quay, Cork, April 2022
- OUTSIDE, National Sculpture Factory, Cork Centre for Architecture, Cork, November 2021
- Oileán, Battery Observation Point, Spike Island, Cork, September 2021
- Standstill, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, August 2021
- A Soft Rupture, GOMA, Waterford, July 2021
- Inter_Site x Timpeal, The Marina Market, Cork, June 2021
- Oileán, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork, June 2021
- COM,MA, No. 46 Grand Parade, Cork, December 2020
- CONFLUENCE, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, January 2020
- Backwater Artists Group, Members Show, Studio 12, Cork, December 2019
- Dismantle, CCAD, Sharman Crawford St, Cork, June 2019
- PRINT.ED #5 Espai Cultural Eina, Barra De Ferro, Barcelona, April 2019
- TAUTOPHONY: Why do we rattle? Why do we sweat? The Kino, Cork, May 2018
- Trouvaille, Wandesford Quay Gallery WQG, Cork, October 2015
Awards
- Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award, 2024
- Cork City Council Individual Bursary Award, 2024
- Arts Council of Ireland, Individual Artist Bursary Award, 2023
- Cork City Council Individual Bursary Award, 2023
- Culture Ireland funding, 2023
- K-fest Screaming Popes Prize Finalist, 2022
- Cork City Council Individual Bursary Award, 2022
- Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award, 2021
- Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award, 2021
- RDS Visual Art Awards long list, 2021
- Postgraduate Residency award, Sample Studios, 2021
- Valerie Gleeson Development Bursary Award, 2020
- The Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary, Backwater Artists Group, 2020
- RDS Visual Art Awards long list, 2019
- Lavit Gallery Student of the Year Award, 2019
Residencies
- PADA Studios Artist-in-Residence, July/August 2022
- The Gallery at No. 46 Grand Parade Curatorial-Residency, 2019
Visiting lectures
- Artist talk, Crawford College of Art & Design, November, 2023
- Artist talk, inter_site collective, Crawford College of Art & Design, December 2021
- Artist talk, inter_site collective, Sample Studios, August 2021
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