Nuit Blanche

To mark 10 years since the vote for Brexit went through in June 2016, the CCI will present Japanese artist Shiro Masuyama’s sculpture and film Brexit Sausages.

A socially-engaged artist based in Northern Ireland, he occupies a unique position from which to explore how identity can be shaped by prevailing political forces.
After Brexit, the Northern Ireland Protocol dictated that Northern Ireland would continue to follow EU rules on product standards to prevent checks along its border with Ireland. Instead, inspections on goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain would take place at Northern Irish ports which prompted criticism that a new border has been created in the Irish Sea. Under EU food safety rules, sausages were then prevented from entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain (though there have been temporary truces to keep trade flowing).

In 2022, Masuyama created a new social intervention using sausages to highlight this Irish Sea border created after Brexit. The artist and his friends departed from Stranraer in Scotland to Belfast by boat and sailed along the Irish Sea border with the linked sausage sculpture floating behind the boat.

Crédit photo : Helmut Lemke

Cúán de Búrca is a poet, musician and presenter from Dublin. A graduate of Trinity College, he has worked in radio and TV, notably with RTÉ, TG4, Raidió na Life and Raidió na Gaeltachta, and now hosts a podcast about folklore. A native Irish speaker, his Irish language poetry has been published in various journals.
Tonight, following his appearance at the Marché de la Poésie, he celebrates the richness of traditional Irish culture through poetry readings and musical performance.

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