Carceral Jigs

How do recycled architectures of containment complicate and unsettle ideas of contemporary Irish nationalism? Carceral Jigs laces footage of anti-migration protests and talking-head interviews with children’s television tropes, 3D puppetry, and linguistic tongue twisters to consider how control is choreographed through culture, policy, media, and the built environment – and how the spectacle of belonging is maintained and malformed by its systematic denial.