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Circle A departs from a heavily edited conversation between five strangers in an art bookshop. Their discussion circulates around the term 'Anarchy', including its abstraction and how the word functions in both an imaginary and a real way. It is cut alongside footage from the Las Fallas festival, Valencia, a five-day celebration of fire and pyrotechnics as well as interjections from the late author, social theorist and orator Murray Bookchin, who coined the term ‘Lifestyle Anarchism’. Threaded throughout the film are hundreds of newspaper clippings from an open archive. The soundtrack of drums, pops and explosions fall in and out of syncopation, providing driving rhythm and moments of rupture. Circle A inserts Anarchy as an aspirational conceit both on micro and macro level into the language of the everyday spectator. If Anarchy is affirmed as a response to order, the film puts full emphasis on the word ‘response’. In other words, the work is a thought experiment on how to begin to undo a system.

Eoghan Ryan (b. 1987, Dublin, IRE) is based between Brussels, Amsterdam and Dublin. He works across moving image, installation, performance, puppetry and collage. His process engages collective and personal trauma, power dynamics, double speak, acting and reacting to play out disintegrations of mediated language. This often involves confusing and dismantling notions of ‘European’ states of identity, ranging from nation states and states of being to the cultivation of provisional culture, in art as much as bacteria. Recent and selected shows, performances and screenings have taken place at The Complex (IE), Edith Russ Haus(DE), Centrale Fies (IT), ICA London (UK), Busan Biennale (KR) IFFR, Rotterdam (NL), Visio (IT) Foundation Pernot Ricard (FR) Kunstervein Freiburg (DE) South London Gallery (UK) Serralves Museum (PR) and IMMA (IE). He is currently developing a new project for EVA biennale 2025(IE)