Event | Everyone is Secretly Expecting Something Beautiful Will Happen to Them Performance by Jack Galligan at the Douglas Hyde

Event Details

In conjunction with the Student Forum 2026 exhibition The Conditions of Being Here, artist Jack Galligan will activate the gallery space through a durational performance.

Using the body as a means through which space is negotiated and produced, this performance sees the gallery become a site of tension, spectacle, and social encounter in. Unfolding as an improvised series of vignette style poses backed by the constant running of a Henry Hoover, Galligan repeatedly begins the performance but never quite resolves our expectations for it. Using the visual language of theatre and drawing from the artist’s experiences as a young person, this work