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

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

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

A Facility for Fluid Sharers | A sexual desires / paper marbling workshop with Chloe Cooper

Saturday 12 Nov 2022
2pm - 3:30pm
Engage Art Studios

A Facility for Fluid Sharers is an opportunity to practice making choices together within the context of sexual relationships.

It asks participants to consider which fluids they’d like to give and which they’d like to receive via the medium of paper marbling.

The workshop lasts for approximately 90 minutes and is for a maximum of 8 participants. Each participant is assigned a mucous membrane (marbling tank) and partner with which to negotiate which fluids (appropriately coloured gouache-paint-and-water-mix) to share on each other’s mucous membranes. Participants then decide how each fluid should be dispensed by experimenting with a selection of devices. Once fluids are dispensed, there is an opportunity to “get creative” using a range of hand-cast silicone tools including the “Studded Stroker”, “Three-Toed Tickler” and “Ribbed Rake”. Once both partners are satisfied, paper is placed onto the surface of their mucous membranes to make a print of their fluid sharing. 

The partnerships are purely conversation-based and although body parts are alluded to, no touching takes place as part of the workshop. The choices made in the workshop are of an intimate nature and so participants are reminded to only share what they feel comfortable sharing and that they can step out at any time. A script can be provided to anyone who wants to check what might happen beforehand - please contact Chloe on chloe_jam@yahoo.co.uk and she will email it over. 

A Facility for Fluid Sharers has been informed by Chloe's work with Bedfellows - a group of people who made tools together to re-educate each other about sex.

Tickets (sold out)
18+ Because it’s about sex, the content of the workshop will be sexually explicit.

Venue: Engage Art Studios, Churchfields, Lower Salthill, 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 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

Tonya McMullan Honey Tasting Workshop (sold out)

11 November 2021
18:00 - 20:00

Through tasting honey, can we begin to collectively refine our sense of smell and taste to the point where we might decode messages about the environment left to us by honey bees? 

Alongside her newly commissioned scent work for TULCA, artist Tonya McMullan invites audiences in Galway to join her for an online sensory workshop tasting a variety of local honeys. 

This workshop gently begins to bridge gaps between insect and human activity, and seeks to build vocabulary and understanding concerning smell and taste, as well as raise awareness around humankind’s unique relationship with honey bees.

Upon booking a place participants can then collect honey samples required for the workshop from the An Post Gallery from Friday 5 November - Thurs 11 November.

In addition to collecting samples, the artist asks that participants also bring the following to the workshop:

• A jar of coffee beans (or granules)

• An apple

• A glass of water

• A selection of spice jars from your cupboard

• Some teaspoons for tasting

• A pencil and a notepad

Contact info@tulca.ie to request a ticket.

Participants must be able to collect honey samples from the An Post Gallery in advance of the workshop.

Afterthought - Workshop by Forerunner (Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch)

Saturday 14 November 2020

11:00 – 13:30
Online via Zoom
Limited places: Booking essential

Afterthought is a workshop / clinic for professional artists that is focused on collaborative methods of working and problem-solving. It is led by Forerunner (Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch). The clinic will involve an artist talk by Forerunner that focuses on a series of project case studies, each of which presented a different challenge. Artists who participate in the workshop are invited to bring a project or problem they are currently working to resolve.

Being able to adapt, manipulate and understand your surroundings is a form of empowerment. From DIY culture to forms of spatial interruption, Forerunner’s practice is characterised by a refusal to accept the limits of architectural space, and an interest in uncovering some of the complexity within its history. For The Law is a White Dog, they have been concerned with the necessary conditions for access: to artwork, to an exhibition space, to a research context and its visual language. Forerunner has looked to design accommodations such as audio description and ‘fish ladders’ as conceptual and material points of reference for their project.

Biography:
Forerunner is a collaborative vehicle used at present by artists Tom Watt, Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch. In their separate practices, they are interested in the history of art practices and the fabrication and creation process used or deemed usable as an artist. Combined, their collaborative practice presents an ambitious interrogation of objects, environments and uses, at architectural scale. Over the past two years, their work has begun to encompass a desire to quietly upgrade or criticise by ‘fixing’. Recent collaborative efforts include Misplaced Concreteness, a domestically-scaled hillside dam with Grizedale Arts, UK (2017-ongoing); Architecture of Change, VOID Derry, curated by Mary Cremin (2018); Museum of Mythological Waterbeasts, Ormston House, Limerick, curated by Mary Conlon and Niamh Brown (2018); and Brute Clues, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, curated by Tessa Giblin (2016).

*Please select number of tickets from the drop down menu to complete your booking.

This workshop within The Law is a White Dog has been funded by Galway County Council Arts Office. Priority is given to Galway-based artists.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne
6 - 22 November 2020
Galway, Ireland 

www.tulca.ie

Image credit: Forerunner, Misplaced Concreteness, 2017-ongoing.

Grey Eminence – Performance / workshop by Caroline Campbell (Loitering Theatre)

Saturday 7 November 2020

12:00 – 13:30
Online via Zoom
Limited places: Booking essential

Protest Archive is an intergenerational feminist and activist project by Caroline Campbell (Loitering Theatre). This project has been developed with a loose affiliation of women across the island of Ireland who have been active in radical political protest from the 1960's to today. Significantly, this archive of bodily gestures extends through feminist practice into modes of anti-imperialism and actions of solidarity far beyond the island where its bodies are located. 

Grey Eminence is a zoom workshop and guided performance that will be Loitering Theatre's first activation of the Protest Archive. The workshop will include the first readings of texts from the Protest Archive. Contributors include poet and activist Sarah Clancy, and selected avatars. The workshop will be moderated by Megs Morley. 

The Grey Eminence workshop will also investigate the power of the body and the activist gesture in protest. In times where the movement of our bodies through public space have been restricted in order keep our community healthy and safe, the workshop will work creatively with the disembodied aesthetics of Zoom.

Biography
Caroline Campbell is an artist, writer and filmmaker working under the name Loitering Theatre (both as a solo artist and with other collaborators). Loitering Theatre work across video, text, mixed message, false flags, meme magic, artificial intellect, viral interference and future archaeologies of time. Loitering Theatre has recently presented work at Hugh Lane Gallery, as part of Digital Self Defence, curated by Kennedy Browne; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and Solstice Gallery (all 2019); Carlow Arts Festival and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts (both 2016). Caroline is a practice-based PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Department of Visual Cultures.

Accessibility information
Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.
If you have access needs you would like to discuss in advance, please contact info@tulca.ie

Recording and participation information
Participants are requested to display their actual name while in the Zoom meeting.
Discussions will be moderated and participants may be asked to turn their camera on / off or to mute their audio when the presenter is speaking. The workshop will be recorded and may be published or re-used by Loitering Theatre. This will be discussed with participants to confirm consent.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne
6 - 22 November 2020
Galway, Ireland 

www.tulca.ie