Artist Talk: Bridget O'Gorman

Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Rd Lower
Monday 20 November 2023
11am - 1pm

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series in partnership with ATU presents the final talk of this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts by artist Bridget O’Gorman. This year’s talks series is kindly hosted by Pálás Cinema.

Bridget O’Gorman
Bridget O’Gorman is a visual artist and writer. Using text, live event, video and sculptural installation, her work explores the body as material, considering otherness, the speculative and expanded corporeal experience. Bridget recently reached an impasse in the way that she works due to the deterioration of a permanent spinal injury known as Cauda Equina Syndrome.

Support | Work, 2023
A sculptural installation, forming an ecosystem of balance and precariousness reflecting on what it means to support and be supported and ultimately how we affect one another. The sculptures are large-scale ‘mobiles’: reflecting upon ideas of support and equilibrium, and created using found and fabricated media, using pulleys, parts from mobility aids, and hoists. The sculptures are informed by support and access, but will also be produced through access, made with a support worker.

A commission supported by Arts & Disability Ireland’s Connect+ Award 2023.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: Step free venue. Accessible toilet facilities located at -2 level. Each screen has wheelchair accessible seats, at the back room of each screen. A complimentary carer seat is provided with these seats. Three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery, a 4-minute walk from the venue. The talk will be live captioned.

Video edit: Jonathan Sammon

Helium Arts Galway Youth Showcase

Porter Shed 1, Bowling Green
Saturday 18 November 2023
2.30pm - 4.30pm

Helium Arts is pleased to present an art showcase by young people with lifelong health conditions that spotlights issues with accessing cultural and public spaces in Galway.

Online Exhibition: 13 November - 1 December 2023, on Helium Arts website and social media.

An accompanying in-person ‘Sharing Day’ for family and friends is taking place at Porter Shed 1, Galway on Saturday, 18 November, 2.30 - 4.30pm.

The Helium Arts Youth Showcase will display artworks by teenagers with lifelong health conditions from Galway and across the region, who have been participating in a programme of Saturday meet ups and art camps, with artist Niamh Gibbons.  Expect to see thought-provoking pieces, including bunting, badges and stamps, among the works on display.

Presented in association with TULCA Festival of Visual Arts with funding support from Galway City Arts Office, Helium Arts, Creative Ireland, Dept of Health, HSE, Arts Council, Dept Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Community Foundation.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: Step-free venue, accessible toilet facilities, accessible parking at Market St Car Park in front of Porter Shed 1.

Gallery Workshop: Discussion and Reflection

University Gallery, The Quadrangle, University of Galway
Saturday 18th November 2023
12:30pm - 13:30pm

An hour-long session of guided discussion and a reflective exercise will be hosted in the University Gallery. Along with a discussion on the themes of TULCA 2023, we will be delving further into contemplating some works selected by the participants. The background of the artist, artwork, concept and the curatorial decision for the work being selected would be shared, along with the responses that each may give to this work. These sessions will be hosted by TULCA Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan, and Kate McSharry, Education Officer.

About the Artist and Work
Jenny Brady is an artist filmmaker based in Dublin, exploring ideas around speech, translation and communication. Her films have been presented with LUX, The New York Film Festival, This Long Century, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, MUBI, International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, TENT Rotterdam, EMAF, Videonale, Camden International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Images Festival, November Film Festival, the Irish Film Institute, EVA International, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Whitechapel gallery and Tate Liverpool. Her works are distributed by LUX.

Music for Solo Performer, 2022
Part-homage, part-sequel, Music for Solo Performer is a filmic reimagining of composer Alvin Lucier’s work for amplified brainwaves, drawing connections between the 1969 composition, speech synthesis and the passing of the filmmaker’s mother. Brady’s disparate assemblage of found sound and image – including EEG analysis, a Jerry Lewis Telethon and the first pizza ordered via synthesised voice – combines to form a densely concentrated transmission of cinematic pleasure, meditating on the relationship between illness and technology with pathos and care.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: University Gallery is a basement venue accessed by three steps to reach the ground floor, followed by a flight of stairs or a stair lift to the basement. There is accessible parking located on campus in front of the Quadrangle Building. The nearest accessible bathroom is located at O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, a 4 minute walk across the green. The film time has captioned and audio described versions, played on loop. Seating is provided.

Image: Ros Kavanagh

Artist Talk: Sarah Browne | TULCA Gallery

TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St
Monday 13 November 2023
11am - 1pm

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series in partnership with ATU presents the third talk of this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts by artist Sarah Browne.

Sarah Browne
Sarah Browne is an artist concerned with spoken and unspoken, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice. Her practice involves sculpture, film, performance and public projects, and frequent interdisciplinary collaboration.

Echo’s Bones, 2022
A collaborative film-making project made with autistic young people in North County Dublin. The project borrows its title from an unpublished story by Samuel Beckett set in that landscape of Fingal, where now an old asylum building meets the coastline. Beckett’s plays are populated with people who might move with difficulty, mutter over each other, talk into the dark or not speak at all. The project questions why such neurodivergent or disabled styles of communication may be treated poorly in everyday situations, but valued as artistically exciting in others. It is a way of asking what a neurodivergent cinema, art, and world could be like.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: A step-free venue, with accessible toilet facilities. There are three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery. The talk will be live captioned.

Image: Sarah Browne, Echo’s Bones, 2022. 4K video with open captions (English language), 22:18 minutes. Film still. Cinematographer Cathy Dunne.

Video edit: Jonathan Sammon

Gallery Workshop: Sit within the Faery Fort

Outset Gallery, The Cornstore, Middle St
Saturday 11 November 2023
2.15pm - 3.30pm

An immersive workshop will be held within the Faery Fort by Bog Cottage in Outset Gallery by Aoife Natsumi Frehan, TULCA Education Coordinator, and Kate McSharry, Education Officer. This will be a meditative workshop. Participants would be invited to engage their senses, giving time to notice the bodily and mindful responses to this tactile installation work. Reflecting on what we are drawn towards without focusing solely on what our eyes perceive. There will be time allocated towards exploration documented as drawing (in its broad sense) with materials such as thin, smooth thread, thick bristly wool and fuzzy chunks of felt to fill a space and reflect on our inner thoughts. 

About the Artists and work:
Bog Cottage is an artist collective originally conceived as a formalised response to art making in the West of Ireland. Born from a yearning for queer community and spaces, Bog Cottage first started as friends hanging out making clay, friends doing DIY and opening a queer cafe. Bog Cottage is a response to the question of where do we go for a drink? Where do we go to make out and dance? Where do the queers go? Since then Bog Cot has transformed into an art making tool; a platform for fostering a queer network of artists who want to share skills, knowledge and resources.

The Faery Fort is a place of respite, an otherworldly space to enter into, and be enveloped by its softness and protection. Walls of patchworked curtain maze around the room, hiding what's beyond them. Portals to another space are at the end of your fingertips. Through these familiar walls rugs snake along the floor, tempting your touch. Follow the path till you come to rest, an encircling seat inviting you stop, sit, touch, listen, look - you belong here. This space is for you, in whatever way you need to take it. The faery fortress is a space to meet, to sit, a reprieve from life outside the curtains. A sacred place, a healing space.

The Faery Fort is a new installation by Bog Cottage, specially commissioned for TULCA 2023.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: Gallery Workshop: Bog Cottage will be held in the Outset Gallery, which is wheelchair accessible from the Cornstore entrance. No accessible toilet.

Image: Soft Day Media

Curator's Tour: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St
Saturday 11 November 2023
1pm - 2pm

Join Iarlaith Ní Fheorais for a walk around the TULCA Gallery to hear about the development of the TULCA 2023 programme.

Curator: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer based between the UK and Ireland. She is an Independent Producer with field:arts, working closely with artists Bridget O’Gorman and Ebun Sodipo. Recently she has curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence at VISUAL Carlow as part of Carlow Arts Festival and collaborated with Emma Wolf-Haugh on a new film commission for Ulysses 2.2. In previous roles she worked at Tate Modern and Britain as Assistant Curator of Young People’s Programmes and was the co-director of Basic Space from 2016-18.

As a writer she has written on the work of Jesse Darling, Manuel Solano and Lorenza Böttner for Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and has an art and access column with Visual Arts News Sheet. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, Arts and Disability Ireland and Goldsmiths University.

Committed to improving access in the arts, she is currently developing an Arts Council England funded access toolkit for curators and producers. She is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design and is currently studying at the Dutch Art Institute.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: A step-free venue, with accessible toilet facilities. There are three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery.

Image: Ros Kavanagh

Gallery Workshop: Unwind with Art

TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St
Friday 10 November 2023
5-6pm

An hour-long session of guided discussion and a reflective exercise will be hosted in the TULCA Gallery. Along with a discussion on the themes of TULCA 2023, we will be delving further into contemplating some works selected by the participants. The background of the artist, artwork, concept and the curatorial decision for the work being selected would be shared, along with the responses that each may give to this work. These sessions will be hosted by TULCA Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan, and Kate McSharry, Education Officer.

Capacity: 25 participants

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: The workshop will be held in the TULCA Gallery. TULCA Gallery is a step-free venue. Some works seen in the venue are closed captioned and audio described, played on loop. There is seating provided. TULCA Gallery | accessible toilet facilities

Image: Soft Day Media

Artist Talk: Rouzbeh Shadpey | Pálás

Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Rd Lower
Monday 6 November 2023
11am - 1pm

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series in partnership with ATU presents the second talk of this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts by artist Rouzbeh Shadpey. This year’s talks series is kindly hosted by Pálás Cinema.

Rouzbeh Shadpey
Rouzbeh Shadpey is an artist, writer, and musician with a doctorate in medicine and indefatigable fatigue. His musical practice exists under the moniker GOLPESAR. He is based between Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal and Berlin.

Forgetting Is The Sun, 2023
A video-essay that seeks to restore dignity to the act of forgetting. The video-essay juxtaposes footage from the artist's grandmother—who remains silent in the face of a medical memory test being administered to her by an acousmatic narrator—with borrowed footage from two essay films which challenge state sanctioned regimes of remembering: the Iranian poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black (1962), and the Moroccan poet, filmmaker, and writer Ahmed Bouanani’s Mémoire 14 (1967). Weaving together the falsely dichotomized registers of biological memory and collective history, Forgetting is the Sun recontextualizes Farrokhzad and Bouanani’s defiance of state sanctioned remembrance through the lens of individual forgetting—and its resistance to medical capture.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: Step free venue. Accessible toilet facilities located at -2 level. Each screen has wheelchair accessible seats, at the back room of each screen. A complimentary carer seat is provided with these seats. Three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery, a 4-minute walk from the venue. The talk will be live captioned.

Video edit: Jonathan Sammon

Artist Talk: Philipp Gufler

TULCA Gallery, Hynes Building, St Augustine St
Saturday 4 November 2023
12.30pm

Join Philipp Gufler for an informal artist talk in the TULCA Gallery to hear about the development of the exhibition on display for TULCA 2023.

Philipp Gufler explores matters of queer imagery, questioning the Western historiography, in which heterosexuality and a binary gender system define the social norm. In his artistic practice he uses various media, including silkscreen-printing on fabrics and mirrors, artist books, performances, and video installations. Since 2013 he has been an active member of the Forum Queeres Archiv München. 

A series of quilts from an ongoing series of silkscreen prints that references artists, scholars and places of queer life that have found little or no place in written accounts and the historical canon. This selection includes artist Lorenza Böttner, singer Lana Kaiser, judge Daniel Paul Schreber and physician Charlotte Woolf.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: A step-free venue, with accessible toilet facilities. There are three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery. The talk will be live captioned.

Image: Philipp Gufler, Quilt #31 (Lorenza Böttner), 2021. Silk screen print on fabric, zipper, 95x180cm. Courtesy BQ, Berlin, and the artist. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooji, Amsterdam.

Video: Jonathan Sammon

Curator's Talk and Publication Launch: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
Introduced by Lucy Elvis

Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Rd Lower
Friday 27 October 2023
4pm - 6pm

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. Gain an insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise. Curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided her programme of unique artworks and events.

Curator Biography
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais Is a curator and writer, currently the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. As a writer she has written for Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal, Girls Like Us, and has an art and access column with Visual Arts News Sheet. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, KW Institute, Konstfack University and Arts and Disability Ireland. Committed to anti-ableism in the arts, she published a free online access toolkit for artworkers in 2023.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: Pálás Cinema  is a step free venue. There are accessible toilet facilities located at -2 level. Each Screen has wheelchair accessible seats, at the back room of each screen. A complimentary carer seat is provided with these seats. There are three accessible parking spots located on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery, which is a 4-minute walk from the venue.

Curator's Talk: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

Life Drawing Room (Room 344), ATU Wellpark Campus, Galway
Monday 23 October 2023
11am - 1pm

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. TULCA continues its long standing partnership with ATU School of Design and Creative Arts to bring you our popular curator’s talk along with talks by three of this year’s exhibiting artists every Monday for 4 weeks starting 23 October 2023. This year’s talks series will be hosted by ATU and Pálás Cinema.

Gain an insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise. Curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided her programme of unique artworks and events.

Curator Biography
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais Is a curator and writer, currently the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. As a writer she has written for Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal, Girls Like Us, and has an art and access column with Visual Arts News Sheet. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, KW Institute, Konstfack University and Arts and Disability Ireland. Committed to anti-ableism in the arts, she published a free online access toolkit for artworkers in 2023.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland

Access: ATU Wellpark Campus can be reached by driving, or getting the 401 bus from Eyre Square. ATU Wellpark Campus is wheelchair accessible with accessible toilet facilities.

Images: Mary McGraw
Video edit: Jonathan Sammon

TULCA Education Programme: Reflective Workshop

Join TULCA’s Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan and Education Officer Kate McSharry for a full-day of guided reflection on the themes and artworks of TULCA 2022: The World Was All before Them.

The Reflective Workshop is a 4 hour long reflective session where the public is invited to delve in and discuss the artworks and themes of TULCA 2022 in the beautiful mid-nineteenth-century surrounds of 19 Eyre Square. Aoife and Kate will be guiding this process using some tools and activities, where you will have a space to discuss in depth your experience of visiting this year’s festival while hearing other people’s thoughts on the same. This workshop is open to a range of audience - from curious minds who want to develop their language of speaking about art, or practising artists who want to dissect their thoughts, or someone who wants to dip their toes into the world of artistic discussion. The only requirement is that you are open to discussing art!

Booking essential due to limited capacity.

Workshop time:
11am - 4pm (1hr break in between)
Saturday 19 November 2022

The workshop will last around 4 hours with 1 hour break in between. Due limited space, advance booking is essential. If there is someone who needs help getting around, please make sure to bring a helper. 

About TULCA Education Programme:

TULCA Education Programme is a unique programme that focuses on looking at and responding to visual art. It is about reaching out and engaging with schools and the wider community to create an increased awareness and a shared understanding of the Visual Arts. The programme engages a process of slow looking, reflection and response. Artist’s probe, question and investigate topics of social concern. TULCA’s Education Programme is designed to continue this process of critical thinking by creating a space for dialogue and learning exchange. It draws on individual personal experience and acknowledges that we all have our own set of visual codes, value systems, likes and dislikes.

Venue: 19 Eyre Square, Galway
Accessibility: restricted access, contact festival at info@tulca.ie
Parking: pay and display

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The World Was All Before Them
Curated by Clare Gormley
4 - 20 November 2022
Galway, Ireland

TULCA Education Programme: Reflective Workshop

Join TULCA’s Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan and Education Officer Kate McSharry for a full-day of guided reflection on the themes and artworks of TULCA 2022: The World Was All before Them.

The Reflective Workshop is a 4 hour long reflective session where the public is invited to delve in and discuss the artworks and themes of TULCA 2022 in the beautiful mid-nineteenth-century surrounds of 19 Eyre Square. Aoife and Kate will be guiding this process using some tools and activities, where you will have a space to discuss in depth your experience of visiting this year’s festival while hearing other people’s thoughts on the same. This workshop is open to a range of audience - from curious minds who want to develop their language of speaking about art, or practising artists who want to dissect their thoughts, or someone who wants to dip their toes into the world of artistic discussion. The only requirement is that you are open to discussing art!

Booking essential due to limited capacity.

Workshop time:
11am - 4pm (1hr break in between)
Saturday 12 November 2022

The workshop will last around 4 hours with 1 hour break in between. Due limited space, advance booking is essential. If there is someone who needs help getting around, please make sure to bring a helper. 

About TULCA Education Programme:

TULCA Education Programme is a unique programme that focuses on looking at and responding to visual art. It is about reaching out and engaging with schools and the wider community to create an increased awareness and a shared understanding of the Visual Arts. The programme engages a process of slow looking, reflection and response. Artist’s probe, question and investigate topics of social concern. TULCA’s Education Programme is designed to continue this process of critical thinking by creating a space for dialogue and learning exchange. It draws on individual personal experience and acknowledges that we all have our own set of visual codes, value systems, likes and dislikes.

Venue: 19 Eyre Square, Galway
Accessibility: restricted access, contact festival at info@tulca.ie
Parking: pay and display

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The World Was All Before Them
Curated by Clare Gormley
4 - 20 November 2022
Galway, Ireland

www.tulca.ie

TULCA 2021 Artist Talks Series | GMIT CCAM (Online)

Talk 3: Mariah Garnett
22 November 2021 - 14:00

Mariah Garnett (b. 1980, Portland, ME; lives and works in Los Angeles) mixes documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking practices to make work that accesses existing people and communities beyond her immediate experience. Using source material that ranges from found text to iconic gay porn stars, Garnett often inserts herself into the films, creating cinematic allegories that codify and locate identity. 

Garnett received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2011 and a BA from Brown University in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA (2019); Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK (2016); Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (2016); Buenos Tiempos Int., Brussels, Belgium (2014); 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco (2013); and Human Resources, Los Angeles (2010). Garnett's work has been included in group exhibitions at Fierman Gallery, New York (2019); Magic Hour, Joshua Tree (2018); New Museum, New York (2017); Vamiali, Athens, Greece (2017); Goldsmiths, London, UK (2017); National Broadcast, Ireland (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); ARTSPACE, Auckland, NZ (2014); and Brooklyn Museum, New York (2012). 

She is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video (2019); Macdowell Colony Fellowship (2017); Harpo Emerging Artist Grant (2017); Artadia Los Angeles Award (2016); Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant (2015); and California Community Fund Atlass Fellowship (2014). Her feature film Trouble debuted at BFI London Film Festival 2019, UK and New York Film Festival 2019. 

Recording and participation information
Participants are requested to display their actual name while in the Zoom meeting.
Discussions will be moderated using the chat function and participants will automatically be muted on entry. Attendees may be asked to turn their camera on/off.

Accessibility information
Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
there’s nothing here but flesh and bone,
there’s nothing more
Curated by Eoin Dara
5 - 21 November 2021
Galway, Ireland

www.tulca.ie

TULCA Education Programme: Sunday Gallery Tour

21 November 2021 - 13:00
An Post Gallery, Galway

Join TULCA’s Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan for a relaxed gallery tour.

The Sunday Gallery tour is a 45 minutes long tour where the public is invited to a conversation on the artwork in the An Post Gallery. The information on the exhibits will be presented to the visitors through guided inquiries. You are welcome to join this conversation, or to sit back and listen to people creatively thinking out loud. This tour is open to a range of audience - from curious minds who want to better understand art to a practicing artist, or someone who wants to spend a relaxing Sunday afternoon. 

Booking essential due to limited capacity.

About TULCA Education Programme:

TULCA Education Programme is a unique programme that focuses on looking at and responding to visual art. It is about reaching out and engaging with schools and the wider community to create an increased awareness and a shared understanding of the Visual Arts. The programme engages a process of slow looking, reflection and response. Artist’s probe, question and investigate topics of social concern. TULCA’s Education Programme is designed to continue this process of critical thinking by creating a space for dialogue and learning exchange. It draws on individual personal experience and acknowledges that we all have our own set of visual codes, value systems, likes and dislikes.

Tour time:

13:00 - Sunday 21 November 2021

The tour will last around 45 minutes. Due to social distancing space is limited, so advance booking is essential. If there is someone who needs help getting around, please make sure to bring a helper. The An Post space is wheelchair accessible. The An Post space is wheelchair accessible.

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Safety information: The following measures will be in place at TULCA 2021 exhibitions and events

• Contact tracing

• Contactless ticketing

• Hand sanitiser dispensers at gallery entrances and exits

• Capacity monitoring on all exhibition and event venues

TULCA Education Programme: Family Tours

20 November 2021 - 11:00
An Post Gallery, Galway

Join TULCA’s Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan for a gallery tour catered to families in the An Post Gallery as part of the TULCA 2021 Education Programme. 

All age groups are welcome to this 45 minutes long tour presented in a conversational format. This will be an interactive tour open for curious minds, those interested in the field, or those who want to spend a relaxing Saturday morning. People of all ages are welcome to this tour, the space is wheelchair accessible.

Booking essential due to limited capacity.

About TULCA Education Programme:

TULCA Education Programme is a unique programme that focuses on looking at and responding to visual art. It is about reaching out and engaging with schools and the wider community to create an increased awareness and a shared understanding of the Visual Arts. The programme engages a process of slow looking, reflection and response. Artist’s probe, question and investigate topics of social concern. TULCA’s Education Programme is designed to continue this process of critical thinking by creating a space for dialogue and learning exchange. It draws on individual personal experience and acknowledges that we all have our own set of visual codes, value systems, likes and dislikes. 

Tour time:

11:00 - Saturday 21 November 2021

The tour will last around 45 minutes. Due to social distancing space is limited, so advance booking is essential. Open to all ages. If there is someone who needs help getting around, please make sure to bring a helper. The An Post space is wheelchair accessible.

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Safety information: The following measures will be in place at TULCA 2021 exhibitions and events

• Contact tracing

• Contactless ticketing

• Hand sanitiser dispensers at gallery entrances and exits

• Capacity monitoring on all exhibition and event venues

Join Eoin Dara for a walk around the An Post Gallery to hear about the development of the TULCA 2021 programme.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
there’s nothing here but flesh and bone,
there’s nothing more
Curated by Eoin Dara
5 - 21 November 2021
Galway, Ireland

www.tulca.ie

TULCA 2021 Artist Talks Series | GMIT CCAM (Online)

Talk 2: Renèe Helèna Browne
15 November 2021 - 14:00

14:00 - Artist Talk
15:00 - Q&A

Renèe Helèna Browne is an Irish artist based between Glasgow and Donegal. Browne makes vocal soundscapes, essay films and angsty drawings. They are 2021-2023 Talbot Rice Resident Artist with ECA at the University of Edinburgh and 2021 Sunset Kino Award winner for their film ‘Daddy’s Boy’ with the Salzburger Kunstverein. Browne is currently developing work for presentation with Dublin Digital Radio, Project Arts Centre, Lux Scotland, PAKT with David Dale Gallery, and CCA Glasgow. They are supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary 2021.

Image: Daddy's Boy, 2020, film still. Renèe Helèna Browne

Recording and participation information
Participants are requested to display their actual name while in the Zoom meeting.
Discussions will be moderated using the chat function and participants will automatically be muted on entry. Attendees may be asked to turn their camera on/off.

Accessibility information
Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
there’s nothing here but flesh and bone,
there’s nothing more
Curated by Eoin Dara
5 - 21 November 2021
Galway, Ireland

www.tulca.ie

TULCA Education Programme: Family Tours

13 November 2021 - 11:00
An Post Gallery, Galway

Join TULCA’s Education Assistant Judith Bernhardt for a gallery tour catered to families in the An Post Gallery as part of the TULCA 2021 Education Programme. 

All age groups are welcome to this 45 minutes long tour presented in a conversational format. This will be an interactive tour open for curious minds, those interested in the field, or those who want to spend a relaxing Saturday morning.

Booking essential due to limited capacity.

About TULCA Education Programme:

TULCA Education Programme is a unique programme that focuses on looking at and responding to visual art. It is about reaching out and engaging with schools and the wider community to create an increased awareness and a shared understanding of the Visual Arts. The programme engages a process of slow looking, reflection and response. Artist’s probe, question and investigate topics of social concern. TULCA’s Education Programme is designed to continue this process of critical thinking by creating a space for dialogue and learning exchange. It draws on individual personal experience and acknowledges that we all have our own set of visual codes, value systems, likes and dislikes. 

Tour time:

11:00 - Saturday 13 November 2021

The tour will last around 45 minutes. Due to social distancing space is limited, so advance booking is essential. Open to all ages. If there is someone who needs help getting around, please make sure to bring a helper. The An Post space is wheelchair accessible.

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Safety information: The following measures will be in place at TULCA 2021 exhibitions and events

• Contact tracing

• Contactless ticketing

• Hand sanitiser dispensers at gallery entrances and exits

• Capacity monitoring on all exhibition and event venues

TULCA 2021 Artist Talks Series | GMIT CCAM (Online)

Talk 1: Harun Morrison
8 November 2021 - 14:00

14:00 - Artist Talk
15:00 - Q&A

Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based on the River Lea and Regent’s Canal in England. He is the current recipient of the Wheatley Fine Art Fellowship, hosted by Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University and Eastside Projects. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2022. Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here. He is also a trustee of the Black Cultural Archive (est. 1981).

Image courtesy of the artist.

Recording and participation information
Participants are requested to display their actual name while in the Zoom meeting.
Discussions will be moderated using the chat function and participants will automatically be muted on entry. Attendees may be asked to turn their camera on/off.

Accessibility information
Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
there’s nothing here but flesh and bone,
there’s nothing more
Curated by Eoin Dara
5 - 21 November 2021
Galway, Ireland

www.tulca.ie

TULCA 2021 Artist Talk Series | GMIT CCAM

Curator's Talk: Eoin Dara
1 November 2021 - 14:00
Introduced by Lucy Elvis

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: there's nothing here but flesh and bone, there's nothing more curated by Eoin Dara.

TULCA is delighted to continue its partnership with GMIT Centre for Creative Arts and Media to bring to you our popular curator’s talk along with talks by three of this year’s exhibiting artists every Monday for 4 weeks starting 1 November 2021.

This year’s talk series will take place online and tickets can be booked through our website and Eventzilla listings.

Gain an insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: there's nothing here but flesh and bone, there's nothing more. Curator Eoin Dara will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided his programme of unique artworks and events.

Curator: Eoin Dara
Eoin Dara is an Irish curator living on the east coast of Scotland. He works as Head of Exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts and has recently been collaborating with and learning from artists like Margaret Salmon, P. Staff, Emma Talbot and Alberta Whittle and writers like CAConrad, Quinn Latimer, Christina Sharpe and Isabel Waidner.

In previous work at the MAC in Belfast, Dara curated major exhibition projects such as ‘Felix Gonzalez-Torres: This Place’, alongside working on new commissions by artists such as Mariah Garnett, Barbara Knezevic, Kara Walker and Johanna Billing. 

He cites the artists, poets and writers above not to align himself with a particular curatorial position, but to name and honour some of the many co-conspirators who have nurtured his thinking and growth over the past decade.

A former student of the University of Edinburgh, Dara is also an alumnus of the ICI Curatorial Intensive programme. He was a director of Catalyst Arts from 2010–2012, a co-founder of the Household curatorial collective, and is a current trustee of Outburst Queer Arts Festival. He has been part of recent juries and selection committees for Glasgow International, LUX, and the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

He teaches and lectures occasionally at institutions such as the University of Dundee and Glasgow School of Art, and has contributed recently to public programmes at Frieze London and the Contemporary Art Society. 

Recording and participation information
Participants are requested to display their actual name while in the Zoom meeting.
Discussions will be moderated using the chat function and participants will automatically be muted on entry. Attendees may be asked to turn their camera on/off.

Accessibility information
Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
there’s nothing here but flesh and bone,
there’s nothing more
Curated by Eoin Dara
5 - 21 November 2021
Galway, Ireland

www.tulca.ie