Content Warnings
A Relaxed Screening of this programme will take place simultaneously at Berwick Town Hall Council Chamber.
Post screening conversation will be facilitated by Dr Isobel Harbison, art historian and writer at Goldsmiths University of London.
Dr Isobel Harbison is an art historian with a focus on contemporary performance and moving image. She has written for a range of publications and guest curated for museums and galleries. Her research explores the production and impact of images, and the relationship between images, media and politics.
Harbison completed her PhD in 2015 at Goldsmiths where she was AHRC doctoral scholar. Her first monograph, Performing Image (MIT Press, 2019), addresses art’s role in an age of technology capitalism and social media. Her second book explores the working life and cultural legacy of a female neon designer in Las Vegas (MUP, forthcoming). Harbison also researches art and independent film in the North of Ireland and is now working on an oral history with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland called Recording History (2025 – 2026).
No Irish Need Apply
An intricate, complex archival work examining twentieth-century Irish migration to the UK during the 1970s and 80s. No Irish Need Apply questions the ways in which anti-Irish sentiment, surveillance, and wrongful convictions shaped everyday life, exposing the colonial entanglements underpinning Britain’s reliance on Irish labour.
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.