Parked at Killybegs Classic Car Show, this episode of K7 dans la 4L invites visual artists Cliodhna Timoney and Paddy Joe Rickard to discuss their individual practices.

𝒫𝒶𝒹𝒹𝓎 𝒥𝑜𝑒 𝑅𝒾𝒸𝓀𝒶𝓇𝒹 discusses his recent research about Irish bangers communities titled Wreckers and Crashers: the folklore of an Irish banger racing community, Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies,Volume 60, 2022 - Issue 2.

Abstract: Banger racing is an extreme form of car racing, wherein manoeuvres akin to crashing, ramming and spinning are essential features of the races as well as the overall performances. This study is an ethnologic exploration of the emergent folk culture generated by a small banger racing community located in the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. The racing cars, or bangers, are individually constructed and customized for each race, using an array of car parts found and appropriated by both racers and mechanics. Such distinct social conditions and cultural practices, and the group’s position as a distinctive subgroup within the Irish car enthusiast community, facilitate the creation of its own culture and folklore. While this study outlines aspects of the group’s indigenous vernacular culture, it focuses especially on the ways in which folklore yields distinctive meanings as well as enhancing feelings of both collective and individual identity.

𝒞𝓁𝒾𝑜𝒹𝒽𝓃𝒶 𝒯𝒾𝓂𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓎 shares insights into her sculpture practice with a special focus on her recent installation Flashes of Light, a body of work reflecting on the zone of the farm, its edges and the interconnectedness of the structures, ecologies and beings found there. Considering ideas of enclosures, access, dwellings and wildness, Timoney uses archetypes, motifs and materials typical of the farm she grew up on, alongside references to nightlife culture, to subvert and challenge a permanent, unchanging idea of physical spaces.