Documentation of Public Programme | TULCA 2025
Part Four of the TULCA 2025 recap series brings together audio works, broadcasts, and recorded conversations developed for Strange lands still bear common ground. Alongside newly commissioned collaborations, the programme extended across live radio, installation-based sound, and podcast formats, creating additional spaces for listening and reflection beyond the exhibition galleries.
Audio Works
Enya Moore & Kate O’Shea | A Collection of Ocean Waifs
Specially commissioned for TULCA 2025, A Collection of Ocean Waifs is an audio collaboration between Enya Moore, Kate O’Shea, Ron Bradfield Jnr, and Padraig Stevens. Through sound and spoken word, the work reflects on The Wild Goose (1867), a handwritten newspaper created by Irish political prisoners aboard the Hougoumont en route to Walyalup (Fremantle). Drawing together voices from Ireland and Australia, the piece considers how colonial histories have forged complex and under-examined connections between places.
Created across Galway, Walyalup (Fremantle), and Gadigal Country (Sydney).
Bint Mbareh | Tidal Memory
Commissioned for TULCA 2025 and broadcast live on FLIRT FM (13 November 2025), Tidal Memory unfolded in two parts: a composed audio work followed by an experimental music broadcast.
Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher whose practice explores the parallels between water waves and sound waves, and questions of border dissolution, memory, and Palestinian ways of knowing. Tidal Memory layers sampling, research, and archival references, allowing multiple histories to surface and intersect while interrogating the politics that determine which narratives endure.
Tidal Memory | audio composition
Tidal Memory | experimental music broadcast
Mair Hughes | A Field Guide to the Offa’s Dyke
A Field Guide to the Offa’s Dyke reflects on growing up in the Welsh borderlands with a dual Welsh-English identity. The audio component accompanies Hughes’ installation, exploring the psychogeography of the dyke alongside speculative reimaginings of the borderlands as spaces of ambiguity and creative potential.
Podcasts
Emily Joy | Interview
This recorded conversation between artist Emily Joy and curator Beulah Ezeugo took place shortly after Emily’s work arrived in Galway, following delays at customs. In the discussion, Emily reflects on her practice with clay, soil and water, and on the irony that her ceramic salmon sculptures—works concerned with migration and crossing borders—were themselves halted as “hazardous” goods.
The conversation considers borders, Brexit, and movement, while also situating the work within the wider Borderlands / Y Gororau collaboration with Mair Hughes and writer Durre Shahwar.
RTÉ Culture File | Strange lands still bear common ground
Luke Clancy visited TULCA 2025 for RTÉ lyric fm’s Culture File, walking through the exhibition in conversation with curator Beulah Ezeugo. As they moved through the gallery, they discussed selected works from Strange lands still bear common ground, including the immense quilts by artist Jess Zamora-Turner.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland
Image credits:
Rubbing of plaque from The Wild Goose memorial, Rockingham, Western Australia. Courtesy of Enya Moore and Kate O’Shea; Image courtesy of Bint Mbareh; Mair Hughes, A Field Guide to the Offa’s Dyke / Canllaw Maes i Glawdd Offa (2025), TULCA Gallery. Photo: Ros Kavanagh; Emily Joy, Mae ffin yn llinell ddotiog sydd ar goll yn yr afon / A border is a dotted line lost in the river (2025). Courtesy of Emily Joy; Jess Zamora-Turner, Postomia (2023), TULCA Gallery. Photo: Ros Kavanagh.
