Citizen Nowhere / Citizen Somewhere
Citizen Nowhere | Citizen Somewhere: The Imagined Nation focuses on the international legacy of MacSwiney鈥檚 hunger strike and death, and the idea of nation as an imagined state to which his own essays, Principles of Freedom, aspired.
The exhibition begins with an illustrated timeline displaying the local, national and international social and political crosscurrents in the lead up to and duration of MacSwiney鈥檚 hunger strike. His traumatic dedication to the Irish Republican cause gave rise to mass demonstrations in many cities across the world, including Barcelona, Buenos Aires, London and New York. The exhibition provides an overview - which is by no means exhaustive - of some of the many individuals and countries which MacSwiney鈥檚 principles and legacy inspired and influenced to stand against the rule of empire and/or assert independence, including Bhagat Singh (India), Guo Morou (China) and Marcus Garvey (West Indies & United States of America).
Through the work of contemporary artists the exhibition considers the idea of nation and explores the complexities of being a citizen of nowhere, under direct rule or as a refugee, to being a citizen of somewhere after liberation or the hope of achieving citizenship. As Hammad Nassar[1] commented recently in Cork, 鈥榦ur current political discourse of citizen of nowhere and citizen of somewhere can be a poisonous and a troubling dichotomy鈥�.
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Citizen Nowhere | Citizen Somewhere: The Imagined Nation focuses on the international legacy of MacSwiney鈥檚 hunger strike and death, and the idea of nation as an imagined state to which his own essays, Principles of Freedom, aspired.
The exhibition begins with an illustrated timeline displaying the local, national and international social and political crosscurrents in the lead up to and duration of MacSwiney鈥檚 hunger strike. His traumatic dedication to the Irish Republican cause gave rise to mass demonstrations in many cities across the world, including Barcelona, Buenos Aires, London and New York. The exhibition provides an overview - which is by no means exhaustive - of some of the many individuals and countries which MacSwiney鈥檚 principles and legacy inspired and influenced to stand against the rule of empire and/or assert independence, including Bhagat Singh (India), Guo Morou (China) and Marcus Garvey (West Indies & United States of America).
Through the work of contemporary artists the exhibition considers the idea of nation and explores the complexities of being a citizen of nowhere, under direct rule or as a refugee, to being a citizen of somewhere after liberation or the hope of achieving citizenship. As Hammad Nassar[1] commented recently in Cork, 鈥榦ur current political discourse of citizen of nowhere and citizen of somewhere can be a poisonous and a troubling dichotomy鈥�.
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