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Revolver

Cooked up between Niall Sweeney and Jennifer Jennings, Revolver was a sell out at the 2009 Darklight Film Festival in Dublin's Lighthouse Cinema. The show played at Lighthouse 3 on October 10th. The performance included lecture, storytelling, live performance and a beautiful array of Niall's graphic work from the 80's right up to the now.

What the flyer said...

Embarking from a Dublin of a near-distant memory — with its burgeoning cultures of clubbing, digital media, and DIY — graphic artist and visionary Niall Sweeney takes you loop-the-loop round a world viewed through glasses tinted with his particular bent.

Condensing two decades into a two hour performance, Sweeney presents an evening of story cycles and graphic travelogues in words, pictures and music. From suspending giant babies, basking sharks, drag queens and himself over a variety of dancefloors, scandalising the front pages of the papers, and honing the blades of cutting-edge queer culture to celebrating inner-city communities as different kinds of animal, making tiny staircases in and out of books, attending dinner parties with spacemen, and time-travelling with pop artists…

Expect stories of incident in confabulations of the high- and low-brow past/present/future, some transgression, Sean-nós and a few grams of synesthesia. Sweeney will be joined on the night by some heroines and muses… and there’s the chance of a little puppetry.

What the papers said...

"One of Ireland’s greatest creative thinkers and subversive visionaries."
- Architecturenow.ie

What we say...

Jenny: I first met Niall when he did a version of this show as one of Candy Collective's Sweet Talks. Since then, we have discussed finding the right context to rework it and bring it back. Darklight's ten year anniversary was perfect. Amazing visuals, amazing stories, I was very proud to be part of this.

Phillip: My memory of this sublime show will always be that it played on the same night as A WOMAN IN PROGRESS. Panti was in both and the high heels hit the concrete hard as we all dashed between venues. Brilliant night!

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