The work introduces and develops upon a fictionalised paternal relationship in order to explore themes of contemporary maleness, ritual and cultural ornamentation. Here, father and son are positioned as both protagonists and editors, engaging with both a bodily or subject-driven performative display alongside a more detached but equally bodily and subject-driven edit.
short film by Eoghan Ryan
A Sod State posits pre and post-Brexit ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland as repetitive political theatre, in which an inner demon performs binary contradictions of class, faith, identities, and borders; private, public, and political.
