If you jump on a moving train, where do you land? by Ronnie Danaher was made during the International Artistic Residency 'Beyond Boundary' in Milan at Fabbrica del Vapore, an old tram manufacturer transformed into an arts complex, neighbouring the Monumental Cemetery. Inspired by this location, the film explores the limbo between past and present, and the catholic idea of purgatory as a journey. Through the literal vehicle of the tram, this queer reimagining posits limbo as a party, building on the idea of the glitch as a queer form of refusal. Danaher sees this glitch, this refusal to perform, this “fantastic failure” as a kind of ritual space where the minutiae of everyday scrolling might transcend into the sacred.

Ronnie Danaher is an artist and filmmaker working with moving image, digital technology and sculptural installations to explore the sacred in the digital world. Her work is informed by the humour and pressures of her experience growing up in a large Catholic family, and the internet as a space to prototype alternative identities and systems of belief.

Recurring themes include the sacred, liminality, screen time, purgatory, internet echo chambers, the eternal scroll on social media, Irish heritage, guilt and shame, as part of an ongoing research project investigating and collaging the interconnections between digital culture and belief systems.

Based in Leeds, Danaher is a studio holder at East Street Arts. Residencies include Fabbrica del Vapore with BJCEM, Milan 2024, New Artist Collective with UK New Artists, 2022/23; Hotel Generation with arebyte Gallery, 2020; The Art House, Wakefield, 2020; and upcoming at Dos Mares, Marseille. Awards include Developing Your Creative Practice from Arts Council England 2023-24, as well as National Lottery Project Grant for her solo exhibition iConfess at Assembly House, Leeds, 2022.

With thanks to UK New Artists and BJCEM for supporting the making of If you jump on a moving party tram, where do you land?

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