Oh - Infamy - we eat electric light

In Partnership with Arts and Disability Ireland

A set. A stage. A basement. A party.

Oh - Infamy - we eat electric light is a new film and exhibition by Emma Wolf-Haugh and Iarlaith Ni Fheorais, that is entangled with and disobedient to Circe, Episode 15 of James Joyce’s Ulysses. A hallucinatory trip through the night time streets, we encounter otherworldly scenes of kink, justice, gender swapping, animism, and the troubling, unearthed through drag, dance, and text.

Mourning the lost magic of the night, Oh - Infamy - we eat electric light takes place on the site of Monto, Dublin’s sex work and nightlife district of old. The place where Bloom roves in hallucinatory states through Circe, and where we evoke phantoms of the past's stomping demands for filthier futures. Oh - Infamy is a celebratory haunting of dirty auld Dublin and of Circe; an ode to the potential energies housed in ruin. 

Images by Louis Haugh

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The film

The film is 12 minutes long and captioned.

Image description: Emma Wolf-Haugh, a white non-binary figure standing slighly to the right of the image. They are in drag as a James Joyce like figure, face painted like ghost or phantom wearing round glasses, with their hands to their ears bathed in magenta light. They are wearing a tweed jacket, with a belt over the jacket at the waist, and are wearing a flat cap. There is a set of white hands, placed above their waist to the left and through their arms on the right. The fingers of the hands are painted black, with long black shiny nails. There is smoke coming from the left bottom corner.

Image credit: Néstor Romero Clemente

With thanks to Oonagh Young and the LAB.