Pádraic Barrett

Pádraic Barrett (b. 1997) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Cork, Ireland.

“My work is a response to techno-capitalist structures and explores fragments in the realm of the queer aesthetic that contains a mapping of futurity. By placing the queer body in a suspended and simulated space in time I allude to the activation of a state of heterotopia and imagine other ways of being in the world.

I merge 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 drone filming, infrastructural environments and found objects casting resonances on how the current world is constructed and demonstrating how the body can mediate the tension between cinematic modes and how we live our lives.

Explorations of the social and spatial experience to the ubiquity of machines are impressed upon by fictional frameworks that have a direct port into our lives. The work seeks out political imagination as a mode of stepping out of this place and time to arrive at a collective potentiality.”

PADA is an Art Residency & Gallery based in a post-industrial site near Lisbon, Portugal.

Video by Apertura Studios.

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