REVOLVER

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 took people on a loop-the-loop round the world that was viewed through glasses tinted with his particular bent.

Condensing two decades into a two hour performance, Sweeney presented 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, made tiny staircases in and out of books, attending dinner parties with spacemen, and time-travelling with pop artists…

Stories of incident in confabulations of the high- and low-brow past/present/future, with some transgression, Sean-nós and a few grams of synesthesia. Sweeney was joined on the night by some heroines and muses…and even chanced a little puppetry.