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Sarah Long Don’t you love a farce? My fault, I fear I thought that you’d want what I want, sorry my dear But where are the clowns? Send in the clowns Don’t bother they’re here1 Natasha Bourke’s film Concrete Keys unsettles. Shot in the former site of FÁS, an office-style block in Cork City, theContinue reading “Clown Time is Over, Time to Take Cover in Natasha Bourke’s film Concrete Keys”

Sarah Long What kind of case is a case of a ghost? It is a case of haunting, a story about what happens when we admit the ghost-that special instance of merging of the visible and the invisible, the dead and the living, the past and the present-into the making of worldly relations and intoContinue reading “All The Living and All the Dead in Myfanwy Frost-Jones’ ‘Unsustainable’ (2023)”

English, strictly speaking, is not my first language by the way. I haven’t yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things. I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don’t think my first language can be writtenContinue reading “A life lived in the limits of language versus the limitless language of life in Holly Márie Parnell’s film Cabbage”

This zine is a response to the controversial documentary Open Port (1968) that looks at prostitution along the Leeside quays in Cork City.  The artist, Marie Chantal Hamrock created this work in conjuction with her current exhibition ‘Aberdeen Open City’. Marie-Chantal Hamrock is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Using relics and inscrutable objects, sheContinue reading “Open Port! by Marie-Chantal Hamrock”

A response to an RTÉ archival video of a forest fire on the County Limerick-Tipperary border (1986). https://www.rte.ie/archives/2021/0204/1195014-limerick-forest-fire/ If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it? Is a philosophical thought experiment that raises questions regarding observation and perception. It is a thought that evokes space and in thisContinue reading “If a tree falls in the forest…”

Gynaeoptican girlies is a collaboration between Marie-Chantal Hamrock and Sarah Long. The ‘gynaeoptican’ is a term coined by theorist Alison Winch, it is a gendered, neo-liberal version of Jeremy Bentham’s panoptican. The panoptican is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed to police the behaviours of its subjects. In a panoptican, the subjectContinue reading “Gynaopetican girlies: The Spectatrix”

Gynaeoptican girlies is a collaboration between Marie-Chantal Hamrock and Sarah Long. The ‘gynaeoptican’ is a term coined by theorist Alison Winch, it is a gendered, neo-liberal version of Jeremy Bentham’s panoptican. The panoptican is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed to police the behaviours of its subjects. In a panoptican, theContinue reading “Gynaeopticon girlies: In defense of the ‘pick-me girl’”

The Red Rose (1923) is a painting that I have pricked my hand off many times as I try to get a handle on its intrigue. Compositionally, it has always oddly reminded me of an inverted Death of Marat (1793), an artwork that also depicts a figure steeped in nationalism. A languid and twisted torsoContinue reading “Never a rose without the prick – Was Lady Lavery an OG Sad Girl?”

I should probably begin with the disclaimer that I watched The Matrix for the first time this week. I am somewhat aware that this film has been championed by the far-right boyos in recent years, as they (mis)interpret the idea of a ‘matrix’ or simulation to be the reality of the existence of those whoContinue reading “Looking and Pointing: The American Dream – Musings on The Matrix, The Land, George Bolster’s show ‘Communications: We Are Not The Only Ones Talking’ and my new coat”

Desire is a publication born out of conversations and writing that occurred during the Existing in Dialogue workshop at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre in November 2022. Download Desire here: