Welcome
Our Need For Consolation
Is Impossible To Satiate
TULCA - an annual Galway season of contemporary visual art. Featuring local and international exhibitions, unexpected live-art performances and discussions & talks with artists with admission free to all events.
Established in 2002, TULCA’s vision is to be accessible to a wide-ranging audience. The Festival engages and challenges audiences with new and fresh ideas, and art that audiences want to see. Attention is given to the finer details, such as programming work in interesting venues and ensuring the invigilators are well informed and enthusiastic.
Each year TULCA aims to do things differently, without trying to fit into a prescribed version of a visual art festival. In 2009, with the appointment of Curator Helen Carey, the Festival will put Galway on the map for those looking for a fresh approach to the way they experience art.
TULCA 2009 will take place in venues throughout Galway City including:
Galway Arts Centre | Galway Museum | Fairgreen Building | St. Nicholas Church | Galway University Hospital | 126
Ken Fandell’s ‘Between Me and Galway Bay’ will open at 7pm on Friday 6th November 2009 in 126, Queen Street, Galway.
This exhibition is open daily throughout Tulca.
TULCA 09 Festival of Visual Art
Our Need For Consolation
Is Impossible To Satiate
Perhaps this is something we need to accept as part of the Human Condition – perhaps this is something that before we live in society, we need to live with ourselves first, and then face the fact that the reality of being in the world means living together, accepting. So how do we recognise each other and how do we live together. Living in the public place of the world and striving to be true to the private and interior spaces in the individual entails honesty. When honesty is complicated and when the challenges of living in the world make no sense, the articulation of complexity is the breakthrough that allows recognition
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That breakthrough is what Tulca 09 tries to cradle, to host.
There are depths beyond which we try not to travel or imagine – but there are heights we can reach and imagination can bring us – oppositions are part of it. Thinking of Ted Hughes’ Crow, his place in the world depends on imagining the best and the worst, the survival of best needs recognition of both. The Artists in TULCA examine the armatures in which the Human Being tries to articulate what living in the world means.
Artists selected by curator Helen Carey for TULCA 2009 are:
- Ann Sofi Siden (Sweden, living in Stockholm & Berlin)
- Amanda Coogan (Ireland, living in Dublin)
- Maryam Jaffri (Pakistan, living in Berlin)
- Dennis McNulty (Ireland, living in Dublin)
- Kitty Rogers (Ireland, living in Dublin)
- Elaine Byrne (Ireland, living in Dublin)
- Guy Ben-Ner (Israel, living in New York)
- Andrew Dodds (Northern Ireland, living in London)
- Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly (Ireland, living in Paris)
- Clare Langan (Ireland, living in Dublin)
- Open Call: 18 artists work will be projected within this strand.
- 126: Ken Fandell (USA, living in Chicago), presented with TULCA’s support
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