The old world is gone. The new world never materialized. The next world is already here, unnamed and mostly misunderstood. Organizing Isolation brings together the artists, storytellers, philosophers, and analysts working to make something out of the fecund mess. <br/><br/><a href="https://aidanmryan.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">aidanmryan.substack.com</a>
Organizing Isolation Podcast
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The old world is gone. The new world never materialized. The next world is already here, unnamed and mostly misunderstood. Organizing Isolation brings together the artists, storytellers, philosophers, and analysts working to make something out of the fecund mess. <br/><br/><a href="https://aidanmryan.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">aidanmryan.substack.com</a>
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May 19, 2026
17. Gaelmaxxing with Darragh Mac AnGhaill
<p>Why is everyone suddenly learning Irish? Why are Irish memes so good? And why are so many Irish artists—from Blindboy to Sally Rooney to Kneecap—ready to risk gigs, awards, and even jail time over their support of Palestine?</p><p>I had the pleasure of speaking with Darragh Mac AnGhaill—Glasgow-based medievalist, game designer, hurler, bartender, and Irish speaker—to talk about the hottest trend of the summer: <strong>Gaelmaxxing</strong>.</p><p>We cover:</p><p>* What’s driving the surge of interest in Irish and other Gaelic languages</p><p>* Irish politics today, north and south</p><p>* Slaves, coins, cows, Brehon Law, and other common misconceptions about medieval Ireland and Gaelic culture</p><p>* The unique cultural and political ties between Ireland and Palestine</p><p>* The Fenian invasion of Canada by way of Buffalo</p><p>* The meaning of my name</p><p>* And much more</p><p></p><p>To learn more about Darragh and his work, visit:</p><p>* Darragh on TikTok: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@dazzagazza1916/video/7463211239951371542">dazzagazza1916</a></p><p>* Darragh on IG: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/darraghmacanghaill/">@darraghmacanghaill</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://linktr.ee/colungames?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio">Colún Games</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.madrateanga.com/">Madra Teanga</a></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p><p>Thanks for reading Organizing Isolation! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Organizing Isolation at <a href="https://aidanmryan.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">aidanmryan.substack.com/subscribe</a>
March 16, 2026
16. Cindy Suffoletto with Nancy Weekly
<p>Recorded at Western New York Book Arts on Saturday, 21 February 2026.</p><p>The Western New York Book Arts Center recently ended its “<a target="_blank" href="https://wnybookarts.org/cindy-suffoletto/">Cindy Suffoletto</a>” exhibition. This show featured over 40 mixed media collage works that Cindy produced in the last years of her life. They were never exhibited, and mostly unframed until now. It was the first exhibition of any works by Cindy since her appearance in “Autour de Kolar-Collage” at Galerie Schüppenhauer in Cologne, Germany in 1990.</p><p>To close the exhibition, I had a conversation with Nancy Weekly, a friend and champion of Cindy’s husband Andy Topolski and a longtime curator at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo. Nancy wrote a wonderful essay for the exhibition catalog; you can read it <a target="_blank" href="https://wnybookarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CindySuffoletto.pdf">here</a>.</p><p>One way of looking at Cindy’s approach to represent women artists is her composition that incorporates an embroidery hoop. Consider all the anonymous women who expressed themselves for centuries through stitchery, sewing, and quilting because these were the only media approved for their efforts. A small key attached to the hoop either locks the dragonfly woman in or is the means of her escape. </p><p>WNYBAC recorded our talk, and those who missed it now can watch and listen on Organizing Isolation.</p><p>Where will Cindy’s work appear next? </p><p><p>Thanks for reading Organizing Isolation! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Organizing Isolation at <a href="https://aidanmryan.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">aidanmryan.substack.com/subscribe</a>
March 10, 2026
15. The Dortmund Gig ft. Dammnation and Rachelle Toarmino
<p>The I Am Here You Are Not I Love You tour ended with a crescendo in Buffalo’s sister city of Dortmund, Germany, at the Museum Ostwall—a site that in 1976 welcomed my uncle Andrew Topolski for the first time in a group show of Buffalo artists and that in 1996 brought him back for a solo exhibition.</p><p>I first visited the Ostwall in 2014 (an episode that <a target="_blank" href="https://aidanmryan.substack.com/p/11-americans-abroad">made it into the book</a>), and I was honored to return in January 2026 for the final stop of my book tour. This was a special event, something that we’ll never be able to repeat. Lucky for you, Berthold Spruch captured most of it on video.</p><p>We began with a reading of the book’s prologue. Then the Ostwall screened my documentary, the film version of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You (which is available in the U.S. on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Here-You-Are-Not-Love/dp/B0F58343BL">Amazon Prime Video</a>). We interrupted the film twice for live interviews with two friends of Andy and Cindy: the Peiting, Bavaria-based artist Peter Mayer and the Köln gallerist Christel Schüppenhauer. Then I read the section of the book that takes place in Dortmund, featuring my friends Steve Coffed, Matthias Spruch, and Sebastian Lindecke.</p><p>The final movement of the night was possible only through the inspired support of some of Europe’s finest musicians.</p><p>The band <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/dammnation_/">Dammnation</a>, featuring Matthias and Sebastian, performed an interpretation of “Navigator,” an intermedia piece by Andy that drew on the history and geography of the Niagara Frontier region of Western New York to determine its composition. They followed this with “Navigator RFR,” an extension of the ideas in the original “Navigator” for the Rhine Ruhr region of Germany, home to Dortmund. Both featured Rachelle, reading a poem from her collection Hell Yeah that we felt harmonized with the rest of the night. And then Dammnation jammed on some of their original tunes.</p><p>Full program credits:</p><p>* Christina Danick - Curator, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U</p><p>* Aidan Ryan - Reading, film, interviews</p><p>* Peter Mayer - Artist (interviewee)</p><p>* Christel Schüppenhauer - Gallerist and curator, Schüppenhauer Art + Projects (interviewee)</p><p>For “Navigator”:</p><p>* Peter Köcke - Arrangement, conducting, and synthesizer</p><p>* Charlotte Ortolf - Tuba</p><p>* Julius “Javier Pajaro” Vogol - Trumpet</p><p>* Felix Riedel - Trumpet</p><p>* Milan Kühn - Tenor saxophone</p><p>* David Schwarz - Keyboards</p><p>* Max Jäckel - Bass</p><p>* Alex Doberman - Guitar</p><p>* Matthias Spruch - Guitar</p><p>* Sebastian Lindecke - Drums</p><p>* Michael Peters-Thöne - Drums</p><p>* Rachelle Toarmino - Poetry</p><p>The liqueur that fueled the development of our program (visible over my left shoulder in the library):</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnhGmfCAhx/?img_index=1">Los Malos Pajaros</a>, a limited-release hierbas developed by Dammnation and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.august-kraemer.de/">Krämer Brennerei</a></p><p><strong>So fast as Düörpm!</strong></p><p><p>Thanks for reading Organizing Isolation! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Organizing Isolation at <a href="https://aidanmryan.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">aidanmryan.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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