︎
Ciarán Walsh

Information
Instagram
Contact
  1. Cuttings
  2. Irish Energy
  3. Here is Some Place Else
  4. Ribbon
  5. Rückkehr
  6. Cuttings II & III
  7. this was the source, you know
  8. The Wind on the Heath
  9. The Sickness
  10. Vortices
  11. Fragments of Unknown Teachings
  12. The Ghost of an Image
  13. He Cried in a Whisper, at Some Image, at Some Vision
  14. The Reading Room
  15. It’s Just a Shadow Away
  16. Travelogue Art Zine
  17. Orgone Energy
  18. Iris Stream
  19. Sweet Futures
  20. Hedge School
  21. Forgotten Zine Archive
Ciarán Walsh
The Citizen
2021
HD video with stereo audio
Duration: 3:28 mins 


The Citizen was made in response to a text selected by the Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, for their online exhibition 'Ulysses Expanded'. The work updates the public house situation where Leopold Bloom encounters the Citizen in James Joyce’s Ulysses, presenting instead the contemporary space of the smartphone, where exchange on political and social issues most regualry now take place. It also responds to Joyce's characterisation of the Citizen and to the mythic archetype of the Cyclops. As the unseen protagonist progresses first through a half-blurred social media landscape, and then through fragmented video images of recent social unrest, the hand gestures seem stilted and out of sync with the phones activity: it is unclear whether it is the protagonist's hand or the device's singular large 'eye' that are leading this procession.

Performance, camera & editing: Ciarán Walsh
Voiceover: Turlach O’Broin