Slimming for the Beach

I’ve missed a lot of things of late, for var­i­ous rea­sons, but per­haps the event I most regret miss­ing was Let­ting Go of That Which You Most Ardently Desire.

It was devised by Man­nix Flynn and his Far Cry Pro­duc­tions com­pany, and one of the rea­sons I missed it was that I didn’t quite appre­ci­ate the secrecy sur­round­ing the event. The secrecy, in which you were brought in a blacked-out van to the first venue, was of the utmost neces­sity, as one of the rooms in the old Vic­to­rian build­ing in which the instal­la­tion was housed con­tained real AK-47 assault rifles, among other weapons.

Let­ting Go of What You Most Ardently Desire, as Man­nix explains in the RTÉ inter­view linked to below, is about let­ting go of vio­lence in our­selves and in our his­tory, among other things. But lis­ten to the interview.

You may be glad to hear that when the event was over, Far Cry Pro­duc­tions called the Garda Siochána, who took the AK-47s etc out of circulation.

Let­ting Go of That Which You Most Ardently Desire RTÉ inter­view with Man­nix Flynn. (This links to the Far Cry Pro­duc­tions site. Click on the link there. Requires Real Audio).