Artist Talk: Vivienne Dick | ATU Galway City
TULCA is pleased to present the Artist Talks Series as part of the 2026 programme, Veruca Salt, curated by Sinéad Keogh. Continuing its ongoing partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will present four talks throughout October and November 2026.
The series invites audiences to engage directly with participating artists and the curator, offering insights into their practices and the ideas shaping this year’s festival. All talks take place at ATU Galway City – Wellpark Road. Admission is free and booking is required.
Vivienne Dick discusses her practice as part of the TULCA 2026 Artist Talks Series. The talk accompanies Vivienne Dick’s presentation at TULCA Gallery for Veruca Salt.
Vivienne Dick
Vivienne Dick works with film, video and photography. Her films are concerned with gender politics, social issues, ecology and possible futures. She makes single and multiscreen work which combine elements of documentary, performance and fiction. Dick began making films in late seventies New York during a period referred to as ‘No Wave’. Later work was made in London, and in recent years, in Ireland. Her work has been shown widely with retrospectives in Queer Porto, Jeu de Paume, Paris, IMMA, Seville, Tate Modern, and Crawford Art Gallery. Recent group shows include Palais de Tokyo, Paris, RCC Letterkenny, Hawaii Contemporary, The Complex Arts Centre, Tate Britain, and IMMA, Dublin. Dick's films have been shown at festivals at the BFI, London, New York Film Festival, Cork, Dublin, FilmX, LA , Berlin, Edinburgh, Oberhausen, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen and others. New York Our Time, a Reel Art feature documentary, received the Dublin Film Critics Award at DIFF in 2020 and Best Documentary Award at Irish Film Festival, London. A member of Aosdána since 2000, her work is distributed by Lux UK and The Film Makers Coop NYC. Dick is grateful to An Chomhairle Ealaíon for its support.
Artist Statement
I make multi-layered, open-ended work framed from a female perspective and with an interest in gender politics, ecology, music, philosophy and possible futures. My early work is associated with the ‘No Wave’ music and film movement of late seventies New York. I work with film, video and sometimes photography. I make single and multiscreen work which combine elements of documentary, performance and fiction. Later work was made in London, and in recent years, in Ireland. My works shows in cinemas, museums, and galleries. I am a member of Aosdána. The film features punk playing pinball, Beate Nilsen, Ikue Mori, Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, Adele Bertei, and Anya Phillips. In Guérillère Talks the filmmaker’s presence is felt through the expressive camera movements which contribute an energy and intensity to this exploration into notions of identity, as performers perform themselves.
Free, advance booking required
ATU Galway City
Wellpark Road
Galway, H91 DY9Y
Access
Wheelchair access
Accessible toilet
Seating available
Accessible parking available
Event Time
3 November 2026
2–3.30pm
Getting There
Bus: Wellpark Road stop
Free parking
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Veruca Salt
Curated by Sinéad Keogh
6–22 November 2026
Galway, Ireland