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Need a bag?

A bag that can hold heavy objects like a mini synth?

Read on.

Ivory-tinkling, Porto-based Luke Brennan, him off the ‘telly‘, writes:

A video I made as a thank you to the guys at Mamukko down in Kinsale, County Cork.

Originally from Hungary, they are 3rd generation leather-makers who have taken to upcycling sails/dingys/liferafts into the finest bags/wallets/etc.

They are a fixture down in Kinsale, you wouldn’t meet more decent, charming, creative, skillful people, we’re lucky to have them.

Mammuko

Irish-made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.

‘Two Hundred and Seventy’ (2018)  – an installation by Nils Völker at Museum für agewandte Kunst (MAK) in Vienna,

A concave array of 270 plastic bags suspended from the ceiling inflate and deflate rhythmically – their movement controlled and  synchronised by 1000 precisely aligned fans and 45 circuit boards.

A constant crinkling sound fills the museum’s vast hall. Like the rustle of tissue paper. Or the rush of the tide.

Or that locust-person in Screen 12, two seats away with the big bag of M&Ms.

Now you have it.

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