The Arts Review​

Welcome to Traumatraum. Image Al Craig **** Shouldn't we be allowed speak of physical trauma without having to speak of psychological trauma? Emotional trauma? Global trauma? Historical trauma? Trauma trauma? Post-trauma trauma? Isn't a lot of trauma talk dangerously normalising the overstating of harm as brilliantly diagnosed by Sarah Schulman in Conflict Is Not Abuse? What is trauma anyway? In the multi-disciplinary Welcome To Traumatraum, three interwoven, biographical tal

Pretty Vacant written by Tom Swift, music by Daragh Dukes. Image Eoin Norton **** In the part of the city known as the Liberties, just off High Street, tucked behind a limestone entrance is a rather unassuming, easily passable building. It does not dominate the area, but reassuringly blends into its fabric, existing quite happily as Tailors' Hall — the oldest surviving guild hall in Dublin. A landmark of revolution, and now home to The Performance Corporation’s current produc

The Far Away Sun by KT Honan. Image Eivind Hansen *** A man crawls from twisted car wreckage in Deirdre Dwyer's compositionally unbalanced set. Slowly, he proceeds to undress down to his underwear. Meanwhile John Gunning's throbbing, orange lights echo the heartbeat from Carl Kennedy's haunting soundscape, reinforcing the connection between man and machine. You might think J.G. Ballard's Crash by way of Cronenberg's movie version. But KT Honan's exotic spectacle The Far Away