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Carceral Jigs (2025) & A Sod State (2022) | De Appel
Carceral Jigs (2025) & A Sod State (2022) | De Appel speelt op zondag 31 mei 2026 om 19:00 in Kriterion (Roetersstraat 170, Amsterdam).
- Datum
- zondag 31 mei 2026
- Aanvang
- 19:00
- Locatie
- Kriterion · Roetersstraat 170, Amsterdam
- Tickets
- tickets.kriterion.nl ↗
- Soort
- Film
Over Carceral Jigs (2025) & A Sod State (2022) | De Appel
Eoghan Ryan’s two films depart from specific moments and movements in the history of Ireland: the mutations of contemporary right-wing nationalism (Carceral Jigs) and the post-Brexit moment of the early 2020s (A Sod State). His films often deploy found and borrowed footage, fast-paced editing, and elements of puppetry, horror or propaganda, as a critical gateway into the ways in which conflict is shaped by popular media and remote spectatorship. A Sod State premiered in 2021 at the Open Studios of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam during Ryan’s residency, and it has been shown various times ever since. The Kriterion screening is the Dutch premier of Carceral Jigs, Ryan’s latest film, which was commissioned in 2025 for the 41st EVA International - Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art.The screening event and the conversation afterwards with Eoghan Ryan is part of the exhibition project state of us, a collaboration between de Appel Amsterdam and EVA International.———————————Carceral Jigs (2025) by Eoghan Ryan is a video work 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.———————————A Sod State (2021–2022) by Eoghan Ryan refers to ‘sod’ or turf: wet, fertile ground. It is also British slang for someone difficult or troublesome, and as in ‘sod all’, meaning absolutely nothing. ‘State’ refers both to the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time, and to a nation or territory considered as an organised political community. A Sod State posits the pre- and post-Brexit ‘Troubles’ in the north of Ireland as a form of repetitive political theatre, in which an inner demon performs binary contradictions of class, faith, identities and borders, as well as the private, public and political. Using these identifications to reflect on binaries, conflicts and confusions within the human condition, the work considers the effects of constant exposure to a narrative of violence constructed through images and stereotypes reinforced by religious belief, pop culture and state politics.After the screening follows a conversation with Eoghan Ryan.
Over Kriterion
Kriterion is een onafhankelijke bioscoop en café aan de Roetersstraat, opgericht in 1945 en sindsdien gerund door studenten. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog begonnen door voormalig verzetsstudenten, heeft de plek haar zelfstandige karakter door de decennia behouden. Het programma combineert actuele speelfilms met klassiekers, retrospectives en thematische series. Het café is ook buiten filmtijden open en vormt een ontmoetingsplek voor buurtbewoners en studenten. De studentencoöperatie die Kriterion beheert, maakt de plek organisatorisch afwijkend van commerciële bioscoopketens.
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Carceral Jigs (2025) & A Sod State (2022) | De Appel start op zondag 31 mei 2026 om 19:00 in Kriterion, Roetersstraat 170, Amsterdam.
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