Six Sides Sawn, Jack Phelan’s new audiovisual show, will bring Kilkenny Castle’s walls to life for the city’s arts festival
Light Up the Castle: ‘We’ll project an image of Kilkenny Castle back on to itself, then do all sorts of fun things’
Kilkenny’s 12th-century castle, which sits in the centre of the perfectly formed boutique city, was the seat of the Ormond family for almost 600 years. But let’s not get too bound up with the historical nitty-gritty. Phelan laughs about how “lots of my ideas in history are very visual, like wisps of smoke. It’s a weakness, but I think then it could be a strength.
There’s a microscope with a camera port that he uses in time-lapse photography, a computer, an animation table with a DIY rostrum camera mounted above. “Every and any type of filming and photography you can do, I’ve probably done a bit of it.” “My hands being part of this orchestration happening on the castle worked well because it links the audience to the castle. Then you can play with that, with scale and time.”
All Phelan’s work involves making moving images. “Sometimes it’s live action, video or film, sometimes it’s motion graphics, sometimes it’s animation, sometimes something in between.” He does most of this moving-image work for theatre. “From my point of view, I’m a film-maker that happens to be mostly producing work for the stage.”’s book into a live-audience-upload experience – “a perfect piece for the pandemic. The theme was transhumanism and what it means to be human in an age of AI.
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