Impermanence

About

Pádraig Condron is an Irish Italian queer body, finding catharsis in an autoethnographic practice. Their theory-led practice aims to untangle personal experiences; considering the human body, distinct from the mind, as a space we inhabit and perform in.

Pádraig also considers the ways in which this ownership is challenged, our bodies are controlled and which social structures limit and restrict us.

A multidisciplinary artist and performer they appeared in films The Image (2018) and The Burning Baby (2020). They are director of Gasleak Mountain in Nottingham.

I’m Pádraig, and we are looking down at our hands

then past our hands to our feet

then everything else fades out of focus.

The ground below finally retreats

and we’re hanging, pulling ourselves forward

or wherever

with everything moving at the pace we have decided

We’re existing between ourselves

but it’s not close

there’s plenty of room between the pieces

And when we all speak

the words ring in a chorus

of everyone we’ve ever been