Untitled, 2024
Performative film, dimensions variable

Pádraic Barrett merges performance, film and installation to explore human and machine agency through bodily and technological frameworks that can open a space for reflection on the nature of our contemporary experience. These complex relationships are interrogated through non-human imagery and post-human landscapes, casting resonances on how the current world is constructed.

Barrett’s work is a response to techno-capitalist structures and explores alternative vantage points in the realm of the Anthropocene, that contains a mapping of futurity. By placing the queer body in a suspended and simulated space in time, he alludes to the activation of a state of heterotopia and imagines other ways of being in the world.

By identifying with Fraser’s concept of Cannibal Capitalism and signalling how our system is devouring care, Barrett takes on the role of the performer and facilitates an investigation into the possibility of rebalancing the place of human beings within the natural world.