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alice maher, museum plaza, spanish arch
Night Lake for Tulca is a giant wall projection based on the large
wall drawing first commissioned for her RHA show. Its shape is taken
from the oval lake at the centre of Hironimous Bosche’s painting of
the Garden of Earthly Delights, where people, animals, birds and fruit,
all disport themselves in an ever-changing, metamorphing world of
transformative pleasure. Alice Maher is represented by the Green on
Red Gallery Dublin, the Purdy Hicks Gallery London, and the David
Nolan Gallery New York. |
Joan Healy, the arch, aras na ngael
Joan has created an interactive artwork that replaces an actual
busker with a videotaped musical performer that is projected onto
the street. The artist has used this project as a means to allow her
musically talented friends to perform, without having to experience
the horrors of stage fright. It involves the use of a hat placed on the
ground with a sensor disguised inside it, which picks up vibrations
of money being thrown into it that trigger the videos at random. It is
intended to be a fun piece of street art that anybody of any age can
interact with, without the need for an instruction manual. |
Warren Neidich, throughout Galway
Past Poster Perfect, is a work generated through Warren’s interest
in reconfiguring the experience of space and time relations in the
architectural and urban environment. For the past year he has
been a guest and foreigner in Berlin. As a way to adjust to his new
home Neidich started sampling, collecting and archiving interesting
posters that he found on the street. Past Poster Perfect produces a
new and confused way to experience the exterior social urban space
of Galway. The archived posters are re-posted and re-assembled in a
foreign environment in a very foreign context to the one that they had
been initially hung, attached, and pasted. They refer to past events in
unknown and away locations that are impossible to attend. |
Connor MacGarrigal www.tulcafreedomtrail.com
The Tulca Freedom Trail is a self guided audio tour based on a
remapping of the famous Boston Freedom Trail to Galway. The project
is part of Cultural Tourism an ongoing body of work which seeks to
facilitate a culturally minded audience in reducing their carbon footprint
by enjoying the cultural highlights of the world without leaving their
home town. The tour draws on the historic connections between
Galway and Boston, explores the troubled concept of American
freedom in the contemporary political climate and encourages the user
to see Galway in a new and unexpected way. |
Gareth Polmeer thiscouldbeanywhere@tulca.ie
This could be anywhere explores ideas of familiarity and
communication through a representation of Galway from a peripheral,
mediated stance. The work seeks collaboration with the public and
channels an exchange and dialogue via the internet and email with
the artist as interface in a form of ‘social networking’. Photographs,
videos and text media submitted as ‘representative’ of the city are
interpreted, collated and edited into new forms and redistributed via
the internet in multiple formats for viewing and download such as
podcasts and video. |
Katya Bonnenfant www.cityofstrangers.com
“I am, indeed, a stranger on the island, and at second, cause every
thing seems pretty much stranger to me: the wind inviting itself
in my house all day long, knocking at the door and singing around.
Stranger as well were for me the religious skin of the land, or the
form of the traditional boats “currach”, like curious black limaces
hanging up along the beach, or in a more abstract way the tourmenté
link of the Irish identity with the Colonial England. So I collect on my
way all this islander figures, and draw them on my doodles book. But
you can not be a stranger if you stand on stage by your own, you
need at last to be two, so I associate all my new monsters in pair to
see how they will react together.” |
lorgprintmakers throughout galway
The Billboard Project is a Lorg Printmakers’ members’ exhibition,
which aims to present and amalgamate old and new media on a shared
contemporary platform. The project aims to create new exhibition
spaces for printmakers. These new spaces are to include billboards,
bins, websites & public toilet door advertising. The theme of the
exhibition, as decided by Lorg members, is “Galway Now”. The theme
and its associated meanings query the nature of Galway’s “Hospitality”
and ask does its power to host extend to visual art.
Various Galway City Sites.
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Valerie Joyce
Usherette
“The usherettes would sell ice cream during the interval. They would
make their way down to the front of the auditorium and stand there
with the ice cream tray around their necks. I think there was only
usually vanilla ice cream and it was in a tub with a wooden spoon to
eat it with. I think the usherette would often be standing with the ice
creams in the dark and when you bought one you used to have to hold
your change in the light of her torch to see if you had the right money.”
Usherette Perfromances: 1-5 Merchants Rd, 9th November at 8pm
Artspace Studio, 13th November at 6.00pm
House Hotel, 22nd November at 8.00pm |
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