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THE CLEARING

Vaari Claffey, Fly Specks, Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Louis Haugh
Vaari Claffey
The Clearing
Kunstverein Aughrim
12 June – 5 September 2026

The Clearing is where you bring your horse for a drink of water, where you pause to gather your thoughts, making room to encounter yourself and others, before considering the tools and companions that might accompany you on the journey ahead. It’s also the title of a major new public project by Dublin-based curator and producer Vaari Claffey. It unfolds across an exhibition at Kunstverein Aughrim, a day of performance and sculpture as part of Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival, and a screening programme at The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely.

Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh
nobody ever brings anything small into a bar
Exhibition by Vaari Claffey & Brian Hand
Kunstverein Aughrim
12 June—5 September 2026

Vaari Claffey, Fly Specks, Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Louis Haugh Vaari Claffey, Fly Specks, Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Louis Haugh Vaari Claffey, Fly Specks, Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Louis Haugh Vaari Claffey, Fly Specks, Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Louis Haugh Vaari Claffey, Fly Specks, Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival, Kunstverein Aughrim 2026. Photo: Louis Haugh
Fly Specks
Day of performance and sculpture featuring new work by Lucy Andrews, Julia Dubsky, Clare Anne O’Keefe, Liss Fenwick, Brian Hand, Sam Keogh, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Tina O’Connell, Oisin Grace with Nuria Nevens Sole Mena, James Godson O’Doherty, Marcel Vidal and Vivian Brodie Hayes.
Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival, Aughrim
2–6pm, Saturday 25 July 2026

Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler, Buried with the Machine, The Courthouse Arts Centre, 2026. Photo: Brian Cregan
Buried with the Machine
Screening programme curated by
Vaari Claffey and Todd Sekuler and featuring Rebecca Barten, Matt Calderwood, Jem Cohen, Megan Conery, David Crowley, Brian Dillon, Amelia Durac, Mikala Dwyer, Liss Fenwick, Barbara Hammer, Brian Hand, Bea McMahon, Jasmine Parsley, Elizabeth Price, Elisabeth Subrin, Nathan Truesdell, and Yuyan Wang.
The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely
7–10pm, Saturday 5 September 2026

Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim, 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim, 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim, 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim, 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim, 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Vaari Claffey and Brian Hand, nobody ever brings anything small into a bar, Kunstverein Aughrim, 2026. Photo: Ros Kavanagh
The Clearing by Vaari Claffey is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. Vaari Claffey would like to thank CCI Paris, and Der Windtunnel, Zurich for support in the development of this project. Nobody ever brings anything small into a bar was supported by NCAD Research Seed Funding and NIVAL, Dublin. Fly Specks was presented as part of Craic in the Granite Music & Arts Festival. Buried with the Machine was supported by the Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely. Kunstverein Aughrim’s collaboration with Vaari Claffey is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.