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

Abandoned Goods Film Screening with talk by Prof. Clair Wills | Ballinasloe Library

Ballinasloe Library, Society St, Ballinasloe
Friday 17 November 2023
2.30pm - 4.30pm

J.J. Beegan was an artist and sculptor who made drawings repeatedly naming himself, his profession and Ballinasloe, as a long stay patient at Netherne Mental Health Hospital, in East Surrey, England, where he made drawings recalling home.

Screened in Ballinasloe for the first time, Abandoned Goods is a short film that explores the many artists making work in Netherne, including artist and sculptor J.J. Beegan, through archival and 35mm footage. Following the screening there will be a talk by Professor Clair Wills, who will discuss her process of searching for Beegan, and crucially about what happens when we can’t trace people, what then does the evidence amount to.

Abandoned Goods, 2014
Length: 37 mins

Abandoned Goods screened as part of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. An essay film exploring the journey of one of Britain’s major collections of 'asylum art' containing about 5,500 objects (paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and works on stone, flint and bone) created between 1946 and 1981, by about 140 people compelled to live in the Netherne psychiatric hospital in South London. 

Abandoned Goods was awarded the Golden Pardino for the Best International Short Film in the Leopards of Tomorrow Competition at Locarno Film Festival. To date it has also screened at the Hamptons, London BFI Film Festival, Sundance, True/False, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Oberhausen, Festival Internacional de Cine De Huesca, Janela Internacional de Cinema Festival, Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, First Fortnight Film Festival, DocAviv, San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and Busan International Short Film Festival.

Edward Lawrenson is a Scottish filmmaker and writer based in London. His films have played at a number of festivals, including Sundance, BFI London Film Festival, Cinéma du réel, True/False, Open City; and cinemas, including the Museum of the Moving Image in New York and London’s ICA. 

Pia Borg is a Maltese/Australian filmmaker. Her non-fiction films that chronicle historical events and psychological phenomena have received numerous prizes, including the Golden Leopard at Locarno Festival for Abandoned Goods (2014) which she co-directed with Ed Lawrenson.

Abandoned Goods was made with the help of Dr David O'Flynn and the Adamson Collection Trust and the support of the Wellcome Trust and the Maudsley Charity.

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, assessed via a lift. Accessible toilet facilities available, and two accessible parking spaces at the back of the library. The film is captioned. Seating is provided.

Video edit: Jonathan Sammon

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

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

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

Artist Talk: Emily Speed
Introduced by Mel French

Friday 18 Nov 2022
10am - 11.30am
Pálás Cinema

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

Artist: Emily Speed
Known for her work examining the relationship between the body and architecture, Speed’s practice considers how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied and how a person occupies their own psychological space. Working in sculpture, performance and film, Speed's work looks at the relationship between people and buildings and in particular the power dynamics at play in built space. Her work plays with scale and creates layers around the body, often hybrid forms of clothing and architecture. 

Over the last few years, Speed has had solo presentations at Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, TRUCK, Calgary, and Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas. She has been commissioned to make performances for Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Laumeier Sculpture Park (St Louis) and Edinburgh Art Festival among others and recent exhibitions include: A Woman’s Place at Knole House; Body Builders at Exeter Phoenix Gallery; and The Happenstance, Scotland + Venice at the Architecture Biennale in 2018. Emily Speed lives and works in Cheshire, UK.

Flatland is centred around a film installation, which uses set design, choreography and costume to depict flattened hierarchies within a close-knit community of women. This is accompanied by a second film that focuses on a single performer, signing a text written by author Eley Williams in British Sign Language. 

The work is inspired by Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novella, Flatland, a satire of Victorian society where all existence is limited to two dimensions. In this society men may have any number of sides depending on their status. Women, on the other hand, are thin, straight lines who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. As their pointed ends are considered to be dangerous, they are restricted to separate entrances and must paint one end of their line-body orange as well as swaying continuously to alert others to their presence. 

Echoing Abbott’s novella, the performers in Speed’s film begin line-like and rigid before working together and unfolding to create more colourful, layered and complex shapes through increasingly vibrant movement. This evolution is also realised through costume. The performers wear functional housework garments, such as aprons and tabards that contain hidden elements relating to the set design.

Venue: Pálás Cinema, 15 Lower Merchant's Road, Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
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

Creative Futures, Creating Futures Seminar

Thursday 17 Nov 2022
4pm - 5.30pm
Hardiman Research Building
University of Galway

Drawing together academics and artists, this seminar explores how creative practitioners and thinkers can work together to prepare for future challenges, imagine future possibilities, and reflect on future forms of art-making, thinking, and living. The session draws together a group from the University of Galway and Queen’s University Belfast, who will engage in discussion and performances related to these topics – including a special improvised performance from the -ence collaborative project.

-ence is a collaborative project between free improviser Paul Stapleton and electronic musician and 1/3 of Belfast electro-pop band Not Squares, Ricki O’Rawe. Their debut album Dissensual Grooves was released on Resist in 2021. Their music sits between the uncertainty and openness of improvisation and the stability of the familiar palate of sounds and structures associated with dance music. A dis-sensual groove is one that appeals to a dancefloor’s desire for rhythm and movement while simultaneously disrupting its expectations, defamiliarising our engagement and slowing down our perceptions. Both Stapleton and O’Rawe are also academics and cultural theorists interested in exploring futurity and radical social change. With this multimodal project, which spans experimental instrument design, live improvisation, critical writing, and recorded music releases, they are going to “make the club strange”.

Speakers:

Dr Orla Lehane is a postdoctoral researcher in Creative Futures in the Moore Institute at the University of Galway. She is interested in the role that arts and arts engagement, in particular storytelling, can play in understandings of security and human rights, and in the reimagining of the political space. Orla’s research has focused on the use of creative interventions by youth violence prevention practitioners and depictions of violence in animated documentaries. She has extensive experience working in the area of arts and human rights education.  

Dr Ricki O’Rawe is a researcher and musician based in Belfast. His research explores the intersections of art with politics and religion in Latin American visual and literary cultures. As a musician he has released two albums (Yeah OK, 2011; Bolts, 2015) with the Belfast/London-based group Not Squares. As an artist he has exhibited in the Naughton Gallery and Platform Arts, most recently in collaboration with Liam Crichton (Echo Chamber, Multiple Locations, 2016).

Dr Maria Roca Lizarazu is postdoctoral researcher in Creative Futures at the Moore Institute/NUI Galway. Her interests include literature and culture in the contemporary German-language context, with a specific focus on Jewish and other minority cultures, cultural memory, (post-)migration, and citizenship. Maria is particularly interested in how arts-based research as well as creative methods can influence and transform social, cultural and political responses to migration, diversity, and citizenship.

Professor Paul Stapleton is an improviser and sound artist originally from Southern California. He performs with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics and found objects. Paul is currently based at SARC in Belfast, where he teaches and conducts research in new musical instrument design, music performance, sound design, and critical improvisation studies. He has received critical acclaim for several artistic projects, including his album FAUNA (2013, pfMENTUM) with saxophonist Simon Rose, and for his sound design and composition work as part of the immersive audio theatre piece Reassembled, Slightly Askew (2015).

Venue: Room G011, Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
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

Curator's Tour: Clare Gormley

Saturday 12 Nov 2022
12pm - 1pm
TULCA Gallery

Join Clare Gormley for a walk around the TULCA Gallery to hear about the development of the TULCA 2022 programme.

Curator: Clare Gormley
Clare Gormley is a curator and researcher from and based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is Head of Programmes and Partnerships at Belfast Photo Festival, where her recent projects include the curation of Zanele Muholi’s first solo exhibition on the island of Ireland (2021), and major forthcoming commissions with artists including Kensuke Koike (2022) and Hannah Starkey (2023). 

Clare is also the co-founder and Director, alongside Anna Liesching, of the Northern Irish Art Network (NIAN), a research, commissioning and curatorial platform supported by Tate, Paul Mellon Centre and British Council. Current and recent NIAN projects include a collaborative symposium with The Courtauld on ‘Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories’; forthcoming exhibitions at Golden Thread Gallery and Ulster Museum; and a collaborative project with the African Artists Foundation to develop critical discourse around Northern Irish and Nigerian art practice. 

Previously, Clare was Assistant Curator at The MAC, Belfast, where she worked across the visual arts programme, curating a range of exhibitions including the group show, ‘On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary American Art’ (2019) and Ambera Wellmann’s solo exhibition ‘UnTurning’ (2021). Prior to this, Clare held curatorial and research positions at institutions including TATE; Pangolin London; Catalyst Arts; and Islington Exhibits, and has worked as an independent curator for organisations such as PS² and Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast. 

Clare is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA), and the Glasgow School of Art (BA) and is Alumni of Tate’s Emerging Curators Group and the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive programme.

Venue: TULCA Gallery, MetLife, Hynes Building, St Augustine Street, Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
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

The Lifeboat Readings
Introduced by Stephen Connolly

Friday 11 Nov 2022
7 - 9pm
19 Eyre Square

Join us for an evening of readings by The Lifeboat in the beautiful mid-nineteenth-century surrounds of 19 Eyre Square on Friday 11 November 2022 from 7pm.

The Lifeboat Press is an independent publisher of poetry and non-fiction based in Belfast. For TULCA, they have produced a short book of new writing by Simon Costello, Miriam Gamble, Dane Holt, Michael Magee, Padraig Regan, Trenna Sharpe and Sacha White. Their recent publications have included Sure Thing by Paul Muldoon, oh! by Susannah Dickey and The Sensual City by Padraig Regan. Queering the Green: post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry, edited by Paul Maddern, was published in 2021.

Simon Costello’s poems have appeared in The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland Review. He was featured in Queering the Green and lives in County Offaly.

Miriam Gamble’s most recent book of poems, What Planet, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2019. She lives in Edinburgh, where she teaches at Edinburgh University. The Lifeboat Press will publish a book of her essays in 2023.

Dane Holt is currently completing a PhD at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. His poems have appeared in The White Review, Poetry Ireland Review and bath magg.

Michael Magee’s first novel, Close to Home, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in April 2023.

Padraig Regan’s first collection of poems, Some Integrity, was published by Carcanet in 2022. The Lifeboat Press has published two pamphlets of their poetry and non-fiction: Delicious and The Sensual City.

Trenna Sharpe is from South Pittsburg,Tennessee. Her poems have appeared in The North American Review, Sinister Wisdom, Poetry Miscellany, The Lavender Review, and others. She lives and works in London.

Sacha White’s poems have appeared in The Honest Ulsterman and Queering the Green. She is a contributing editor for The Tangerine.

The World Was All Before Them
Available to order here

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

Artist Talk: Chloe Cooper
Introduced by Gavin Murphy

Friday 11 Nov 2022
10am - 11.30am
Pálás Cinema

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them curated by Clare Gormley.

TULCA is delighted to continue its partnership with ATU 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 Friday for 4 weeks starting 28 October 2022. This year’s talks series will be hosted by Pálás Cinema.

Artist: Chloe Cooper
Chloe Cooper is an artist, educator and devout paper marbler. She uses the process of marbling to create performative workshops like A Facility for Fluid Sharers, which splashes about in the rocky waters of sexual relationships. She marbles paper to make zines about knee pain, wearing glasses during Covid and drinking wine whilst working from home. She collaborates with composer and vibraphonist Jackie Walduck as Vibin n Marblin to make audiovisual performances where Chloe’s marbling responds to Jackie’s music and vice versa, resulting in immersive video projections and mesmeric vibraphone soundscapes.

Chloe Cooper has recently exhibited and performed works at ME 2 U: A Collective Manifesto, Nunnery Gallery, London (2022); Lakesiders, Lakeside Centre, London (2022); Hyper-Presence by Vibin n Marblin, The Hot Tin, Faversham (2022); Visions, Nunnery Gallery, London (2021); Estuary Festival, London (2021); Pull Up a Chair, Ideas Test / Quiet Down There, Isle of Sheppey (2021); Diagnosis, Dreaming, Waiting by Vibin n Marblin, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London (2021); Miso Kitchen by Vibin n Marblin, Electric Medway, Sun Pier House, Chatham (2021); The Body Politic, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2019); To whom the flesh / My flesh / Still connects me, The Poetry Society, London (2019); 50 years of new society, nGbK, Berlin (2019) and LCN Showcase, SPACE, London (2018); Internal Scratch, Battersea Arts Centre, London (2018); Stay Flexible! The Oasis Social Club: Brownfield Block Party, Stoke-on-Trent (2018).

Chloe Cooper’s performative workshop A Facility for Fluid Sharers will take place at Engage Art Studios as part of the TULCA 2022 Programme. For more information on the workshop visit here.

Venue: Pálás Cinema, 15 Lower Merchant's Road, Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
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

Artist Talk: Berte & Harmey
Nul Punt Wolk: Points of Departure, Attempts at Orientation

Saturday 05 Nov 2022
2pm - 3pm
TULCA Gallery

Join Filip Berte and Cliona Harmey (berte & harmey) for an informal artist talk in the TULCA Gallery to hear about the development of the exhibition on display for TULCA 2022.

Nul Punt Wolk is a project and collaboration between Irish artist Cliona Harmey and Belgian artist Filip Berte. Working from a place of friendship and shared interests they have developed a remote collaborative practice.

Points of Departure, Attempts at Orientation brings together a series of fragments with a connection to aerial imaging, aviation, mapping and landscape demarcation. The installation includes two large sculptural Bare Maps, which show bare earth visualisations of the surrounding  environments of two 1917 airfields: Baldonnel in Ireland and Oostakker in Belgium. Created using aerial LiDAR point cloud data, these maps show the earth stripped bare of its buildings and vegetation yet retaining the trace details such as tracks, ‘desire lines’, patterns of use and areas of enclosure.

Appearing semi-photographic, this type of aerial view has been enabled by the changing technologies of communication, mapping, optics, capture and transit which have ushered in our contemporary globalised world. Viewing the maps, we can’t help but think of earlier post-war images and the all too real spectres of conflict today. The Bare Maps were created as a space to gather and look at the earth together and reflect on how things might be different. It is hoped that the Bare Maps and their clouds (‘wolk’ in Dutch) could act as a space of departure, with the potential to prompt reflection around alternate futures and histories.

Accompanying the maps are a generated glossary (‘Glossa’) gleaned both from on the ground experience and official reports of the mapped spaces, as well as archival imagery which includes the former Aerodrome at Oranmore in Co. Galway and one of the last images from a roll of film taken on an aerial survey return flight to Baldonnel (Dublin).

Belgian architect and visual artist Filip Berte (Ghent, 1976) explores space from multiple perspectives looking at issues such as migration, visibility, liminality, and the concept of borders. A critical engagement is integral to his interdisciplinary and process-oriented art practice. Filip Berte takes a position in the background of this increasingly polarised landscape, trying to offer a poetic form of resistance, creating a momentum from an in-between position. He considers his role as an artist as the one of a mediator, tackling questions of hospitality, polarisation, (dis-)integration, observation, surveillance, control, distance, (human) proximity, (in-)visibility, physical exposure and the passage of time.

Cliona Harmey (1970) works primarily with technology subtly exploring the politics inherent in both contemporary and historical socio-technical systems using material exploration and hands-on artistic practice to try to understand /reveal their materiality and logic. She is interested in different ways of making immaterial and mutable data tangible and the processes of its capture and production. Further areas of interest include : communication technologies, infrastructure, public art /audience engagement. Cliona works at a variety of scales from large-scale public art (Dublin Ships 2015) to systems based works for gallery and off-site exhibition.

Venue: TULCA Gallery, MetLife, Hynes Building, St Augustine Street, Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
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 2022 Artist Talk Series | Pálás Cinema

Artist Talk: Christopher Steenson
Introduced by Gavin Murphy

Friday 04 Nov 2022
10am - 11.30am
Pálás Cinema

Tickets: book here

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them curated by Clare Gormley.

TULCA is delighted to continue its partnership with ATU 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 Friday for 4 weeks starting 28 October 2022. This year’s talks series will be hosted by Pálás Cinema.

Artist: Christopher Steenson
Christopher Steenson is an artist based between the north and south of Ireland. With a background in psychology and the sonic environment, his work uses sound, analogue photography, writing and digital media to forge ways of ‘listening to the future’.

Drawing upon the open methodologies of John Cage, and the idea of ‘correspondences’ proposed by anthropologist Tim Ingold, Steenson’s sound-based artworks attempt to operate as a collaborative process, emerging as a field of potentialities between listeners and (speculative) environments. Often taking the form of installations, public interventions and broadcasts, these artworks use the conventions of radio and transmission-based infrastructure to locate audiences within a ‘dreamtime’ – a space in which pasts, presents, and futures are negotiated on a continuum.

For TULCA 2022, Steenson presents Soft Rains Will Come (2022) in 126 Gallery. Operating as a live radio broadcast, Soft Rains Will Come (2022) transmits itself as an ‘imaginary landscape’ within the gallery. Amongst the static and squawks of communication, an unknown voice broadcasts itself to twelve transistor radios. This acousmêtre is an eavesdropper and an oracle, outlining a speculative future of the earth, as it transforms under an erratically changing climate. Like the weather itself, this sound work exists as an entropic system, constructing and recombining itself endlessly. Past and present fragments of sound are perpetually rearranged, to make predictions of an anxious future.

Venue: Pálás Cinema, 15 Lower Merchant's Road, Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
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 2022 Artist Talk Series | Pálás Cinema

Curator's Talk: Clare Gormley
Introduced by Lucy Elvis

Friday 28 Oct 2022
10am - 11.30am
Pálás Cinema

Tickets: book here

TULCA’s Artist Talks Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them curated by Clare Gormley.TULCA is delighted to continue its partnership with ATU 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 Friday for 4 weeks starting 28 October 2022. This year’s talks series will be hosted by Pálás Cinema.

Gain an insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them. Curator Clare Gormley will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided her programme of unique artworks and events.

Curator: Clare Gormley
Clare Gormley is a curator and researcher from and based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is Head of Programmes and Partnerships at Belfast Photo Festival, where her recent projects include the curation of Zanele Muholi’s first solo exhibition on the island of Ireland (2021), and major forthcoming commissions with artists including Kensuke Koike (2022) and Hannah Starkey (2023). 

Clare is also the co-founder and Director, alongside Anna Liesching, of the Northern Irish Art Network (NIAN), a research, commissioning and curatorial platform supported by Tate, Paul Mellon Centre and British Council. Current and recent NIAN projects include a collaborative symposium with The Courtauld on ‘Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories’; forthcoming exhibitions at Golden Thread Gallery and Ulster Museum; and a collaborative project with the African Artists Foundation to develop critical discourse around Northern Irish and Nigerian art practice. 

Previously, Clare was Assistant Curator at The MAC, Belfast, where she worked across the visual arts programme, curating a range of exhibitions including the group show, ‘On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary American Art’ (2019) and Ambera Wellmann’s solo exhibition ‘UnTurning’ (2021). Prior to this, Clare held curatorial and research positions at institutions including TATE; Pangolin London; Catalyst Arts; and Islington Exhibits, and has worked as an independent curator for organisations such as PS² and Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast. 

Clare is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA), and the Glasgow School of Art (BA) and is Alumni of Tate’s Emerging Curators Group and the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive programme.

Venue: Pálás Cinema, 15 Lower Merchant's Road, Galway
Accessibility: venue is wheelchair accessible
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 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. 

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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

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

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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 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.

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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.

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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. 

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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 2020 Artist Talks Series | GMIT CCAM (Online)

Talk 3: Saoirse Wall

Monday 23 November 2020
14:00 - Artist Talk
15:00 - Q&A

Saoirse Wall is an Irish artist working with moving-image and performance to articulate experiences that lack representation in social narratives of gender, health, and the body. In their work, scale, immersive sound, and suggestive gestures are manipulated to disrupt and discomfort. Their work has recently been screened and exhibited with AEMI, LUX Scotland, Platform Arts Belfast and Hotel Maria Kapel (NL). From 2018-2019 they participated in School of the Damned, a UK-based, peer-led alternative art school. In 2014 their film Gesture 2 was shortlisted for the inaugural Hennessy Portrait Prize and subsequently became the first moving-image work to be purchased for the National Gallery of Ireland Collection. They are a 2020 recipient of the Arts Council Next Generation Award.

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.

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Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne
6 November - 18 December 2020
Galway, Ireland 

www.tulca.ie

TULCA 2020 Artist Talks Series | GMIT CCAM (Online)

Talk 2: Sibyl Montague

16 November 2020
14:00 - Artist Talk
15:00 - Q&A

Sibyl Montague’s sculptural work considers how we regard, hold, and consume objects and experiences within a politics of care. Her work uses a wide range of vegetable, digital, textile and ‘poor’ material sources, disassembled commodity goods which are subjected to an intimate process of hacking, binding and remediating. A graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, Montague was recently awarded the IMMA 1000 residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019) and is laureate of the Institut Francais Residency Programme at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2017). Recent presentations include SELF SOOTHERS, VISUAL, Carlow (2020); Practice curated by Alice Butler, New Spaces, Derry (2018); Saplings, Pallas Projects, Dublin, and My Fears of Tomorrow are Melting Away, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (both 2018). Montague is co-founder and co-curator of PLASTIK international festival of artists’ moving image in Dublin, and is currently artist in residence at VISUAL, Carlow.

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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.

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Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne
6 November - 18 December 2020
Galway, Ireland

www.tulca.ie

TULCA 2020 Artist Talks Series | GMIT CCAM (Online)

Talk 1: Vukasin Nedeljkovic

Monday 9 November 2020
14:00 - Artist Talk
15:00 - Q&A

Vukašin Nedeljkovic is an artist based in Ireland. He initiated a multidisciplinary project, Asylum Archive, to collaborate with asylum seekers, artists, academics, civil society activists and immigration lawyers, amongst others, with a view to creating an interactive documentary cross-platform online resource, critically foregrounding accounts of exile, displacement, trauma and memory. Asylum Archive was initiated when Nedeljkovic was living in a Direct Provision Centre, awaiting the results of his asylum application. He holds an MA in Visual Arts Practice from IADT, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Technological University Dublin. His solo exhibitions include Earagail Arts Festival, Letterkenny (2020); Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (2019); Garter Lane, Waterford (2017) and Galway Arts Centre (2015). In 2017 was awarded the 2017 Arts Council Artist in the Community scheme Bursary: Art and Activism.

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.

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Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne
6 November - 18 December 2020
Galway, Ireland 

www.tulca.ie

TULCA 2020 Artist Talk Series | GMIT CCAM (Online)

Curator's Talk: Sarah Browne

Monday 2 November 2020
14:00 - Curator's Talk with Sarah Browne
15:00 - Q&A chaired by Lucy Elvis

TULCA’s popular Artists’ Talk Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne. 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 2 November 2020.

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: The Law is a White Dog. Curator Sarah Browne will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided her programme of unique artworks and events.

Curator: Sarah Browne
The TULCA festival in 2020 will be delivered in multiple platforms. Like every year, artworks for The Law is a White Dog have been selected through a process of direct invitation as well as TULCA’s annual open call, which closed in late March with 180 eligible applications. Of the 20 artist presentations in the festival (including 3 collaborative entities), 12 were invited and 8 were selected through the open call. There are a further 2 contributions specially commissioned for the book, which will be a significant feature of this year’s festival.

The Law is a White Dog is a project that recognises that ‘Law’ is not a straightforward force. It is present as a set of representations and practices, across different temporalities and jurisdictions, that requires diverse tactics of response. Artists have been invited to consider their work as forms of address that could relate to legal processes such as bearing witness, giving testimony, granting pardon, lodging complaint, forming contracts, presenting evidence – or steadfastly refusing to speak in those terms. The Law is a White Dog is a project that brings together a range of practices that refute confinement and categorisation, that invent new languages and forms of expression, and who develop new affinities with others.‘It’s been a huge privilege and challenge to be curator of TULCA this year, and to be in close contact with an incredible range and depth of artistic practice. As the pandemic has unfolded, my priority for the festival has been to spend time engaging directly with artists and finding ways to support their work, in new ways and in dialogue with the concerns of the project. We have been working very carefully and intensely and I’m really excited to share this work with audiences in November, most of which has never been seen before in Ireland.’
– Sarah Browne, Curator

Contributors to The Law is a White Dog are artists, poets, lawyers and activists: AM Baggs, Éric Baudelaire, Rossella Biscotti, Caroline Campbell (Loitering Theatre), Maud Craigie, Máiréad Enright, Forerunner (Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch), Michael Holly, Justice for Magdalenes Research, Vukašin Nedeljkovic, Felispeaks, Charlotte Prodger, Bob Quinn, Sibyl Montague, Kevin Mooney, Julie Morrissy, Rory Pilgrim, Rajinder Singh, Soft Fiction Projects, Anne Tallentire, Saoirse Wall, Eimear Walshe, Suzanne Walsh and Gernot Wieland.

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TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne
6 November - 18 December 2020
Galway, Ireland 

www.tulca.ie

Image credit: Rory Pilgrim, still from The Undercurrent (2019-ongoing). Courtesy andriesse eyck galerie

Art / Magic / Marxism Seminar

O'Donoghue Centre, NUIG - Thursday 7 November - 14.00

Artists and academics propose a reconciliation between Marxist analysis and more intuitive forms of knowledge.

Speaking:
Andy Merrifield (UK)
Sinead Mercier (Ireland)
Clodagh Emoe (Ireland)
The Center for Tactical Magic (USA)

TICKETS - Free
Limited capacity - sale ended

TULCA 2019 Curator’s Talk: Kerry Guinan | GMIT CCAM

2pm - Thursday 10th October - Yellow Room, CCAM, GMIT

Gain an exclusive insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: TACTICAL MAGIC 2019. Curator Kerry Guinan will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided her programme of unique artworks and events. 

Kerry Guinan is a visual artist, researcher, and curator based between Limerick and Dublin. As a whole her work investigates the social functions of art, with a particular interest in functions that oppose, undermine, or re-appropriate rationalist capitalism. Guinan is a Masters by Research candidate at the Limerick School of Art & Design, recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Award 2018, and author of The Impact and Instrumentalisation of Art in the Dublin Property Market (2016), and has presented her research at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (2018), Trinity College Dublin (2017), University College Dublin (2017), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2015, 2016). She is currently supported by Fingal County Council’s Artist Support Scheme 2019. 

‘TACTICAL MAGIC makes the claim that art is magic. Magic is here defined in a practical, or tactical sense, as a non-rational belief in a cause and its effect. Art can be considered magical because it strives to control, affect, or create realities in ways that are not quantifiable, but are nevertheless valuable. The programme for TACTICAL MAGIC showcases art practices that entail this magical belief in affecting reality. The festival also problematises rationalism’s opposition to magic, demonstrating, through artworks and events, the inconspicuous presence of magic in the histories of politics, science, and technology. 

Since 2002, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts has captivated Galway city and county with an eclectic display of Contemporary Art. TULCA is a multi-venue, artist-centered festival of contemporary art that works with Ireland-based curators to present innovative exhibitions that provoke and energise audiences into the world of the Visual Arts.

www.tulca.ie

TULCA 2019 Curator’s Talk: Kerry Guinan | NUIG

5pm - Wednesday 9th October - O’Donoghue Centre NUIG

Gain an exclusive insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: TACTICAL MAGIC 2019. Curator Kerry Guinan will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided her programme of unique artworks and events. 

Kerry Guinan is a visual artist, researcher, and curator based between Limerick and Dublin. As a whole her work investigates the social functions of art, with a particular interest in functions that oppose, undermine, or re-appropriate rationalist capitalism. Guinan is a Masters by Research candidate at the Limerick School of Art & Design, recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Award 2018, and author of The Impact and Instrumentalisation of Art in the Dublin Property Market (2016), and has presented her research at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (2018), Trinity College Dublin (2017), University College Dublin (2017), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2015, 2016). She is currently supported by Fingal County Council’s Artist Support Scheme 2019. 

‘TACTICAL MAGIC makes the claim that art is magic. Magic is here defined in a practical, or tactical sense, as a non-rational belief in a cause and its effect. Art can be considered magical because it strives to control, affect, or create realities in ways that are not quantifiable, but are nevertheless valuable. The programme for TACTICAL MAGIC showcases art practices that entail this magical belief in affecting reality. The festival also problematises rationalism’s opposition to magic, demonstrating, through artworks and events, the inconspicuous presence of magic in the histories of politics, science, and technology. 

Since 2002, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts has captivated Galway city and county with an eclectic display of Contemporary Art. TULCA is a multi-venue, artist-centered festival of contemporary art that works with Ireland-based curators to present innovative exhibitions that provoke and energise audiences into the world of the Visual Arts.

www.tulca.ie