Polylogues by PATHOS

Join us at 2:00 pm for a discussion hosted by the collective PATHOS on working with artists on conflict-related themes, as part of the exhibition Still, We Gather.

Polylogues x PATHOS is a conversation circle that considers how global conflict extends beyond borders and explores solidarities formed through art, literature and practice, drawing on themes of representation, protest and care. Hosted by PATHOS lead Dr Ailbhe McDaid, the event will feature PATHOS participants Eoghan Ryan (visual artist) and Miriam de Búrca (visual artist), and Bojana Janković (artist and researcher). Using the PATHOS Guiding Principles as a springboard, (published by the 2025 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts), the panelists will explore ethical concerns around conflict-related art in our current moment of geopolitical upheaval. Through the panelists’ contributions and audience participation, we will consider how art and literature can create solidarities across international communities from a variety of perspectives.

Bojana Janković is an artist and researcher navigating spaces between performance, participation and migrant rights, and exploring migrancy as a method and a practice. Her performances, installations, texts, and non-denominational works have appeared in physical and digital spaces around Europe, including in Tate Modern (London), Center for Art on Migration Politics (Copenhagen), and in collaboration with Home Live Art (Hastings) and Performing Arts Hub (Norway). Bojana is currently a post-doctoral researcher at IADT Dún Laoghaire, where she is investigating ways of making the cultural sector on the island of Ireland a space of radical inclusion for migrant artists and audiences.

Eoghan Ryan works across moving image, installation, performance, puppetry and collage. Selected shows, performances and screenings have taken place at EVA 2025 (IE), Rencontres
Internationales (FR/DE) Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (IT), The Complex (IE), Edith Russ Haus(DE), Centrale Fies (IT), BFI LFF and ICA London (UK), Busan Biennale 2022 (KR) IFFR, Rotterdam (NL), Visio (IT) Kunstverein Freiburg (DE) South London Gallery (UK) and Serralves Museum (PR). Ryan completed his MFA at Goldsmiths in 2013, attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2019–2021), and participated in the Visio program for moving image (2021). Ryan’s work engages video installation, performance, puppetry, text and collage to explore the intricacies of how power is communicated through mediated culture.

Miriam de Búrca studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and the Ulster University, Belfast where she received an Award of Excellence for a practice-based PhD in 2010. De Búrca works with film, photography, installation and drawing, examining contemporary legacies of patriarchy and colonialism through a feminist, post-colonial lens. Her drawings and film and video works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is represented by the Cristea Roberts Gallery, London and has works in several public and private collections. de Búrca lives and works in Galway, Ireland.

PATHOS (Pathologies of Violence: Inscriptions of Global Conflict in Irish Artistic Practice 1922-present) is a Research Ireland-funded project documenting the development of global ethical citizenship in Irish art and writing over the past one hundred years. The PATHOS team is Ailbhe McDaid (Principal Investigator), Julie Morrissy and Leah Smith. The project situates Irish artistic practice in a global context by considering how international conflict reaches Irish shores. In 2025, PATHOS ran a Workshop Series at the Glucksman in Cork, featuring thirteen Irish and Irish-based writers and artists. PATHOS participated in the 2025 Dublin Books Festival and the 2025 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Beulah Ezuego.

Find out more about PATHOS here

Image: PATHOS participants in conversation, photo credit Clare Keogh