Where Sat The Lovers

Imagine you're scared for your adult sibling. They're on the brink and you want to keep them safe. You think they're mentally ill but they think they're just left wing.

To make the right choices together you'll need to know the right things. The big question: how do you know if you know the right things?

Where Sat The Lovers is about codes, hallucinations, Isaac Newton, warcrimes, seeing meaning where there's none and vice versa. It's about a group of people who all, for one reason or another, have an urgent need to come up with a story that explains  the big scary world around them. For some of them that's about the political situation they were born into without consultation. For some it's about their family, ditto on the no consultation beforehand. Some of them are told they have a disease because of this need they share with all the others. Some of them are dead, depending on your interpretation of what you see.

Created with MALAPROP. Supported by the Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Cork Midsummer Festival, Carlow Arts Festival, Project Arts Centre, and field:arts.

Photos by: Simon Lazewski.