Ridgewood Sick Center

Ridgewood Sick Center by Anna Roberts-Gevalt published as part of TULCA 2023 curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais.

Ridgewood Sick Center is a tour of a community center, run by an ancient organization of chronically ill people. We are led through the building where receptionists dispatch musicians to sick neighbors, archive of sick music history, library (organized by syndrome) full of books about the practices of sick artists. The librarian reminds us - All the workers are sick or were sick or will be.

Credits (in order of appearance)

Edited, written & directed by Anna Roberts-Gevalt | www.sickcenter.net

Weston Olenecki
Leticia Ayala
Lauren Tosswill
Holly MacDonald
Lucia Reissig
Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm
Nyokabi Kariuki
Jenna Bitar
Mel Stancato
Una Aya Osato

Mixed by Daniel Neumann

Thank you to the sick ancestors who appear: J Dilla, Hildegard of Bingen, Ikoli Harcourt Whyte, Adelaide Crapsey and members of the The Saranac Lake Tuberculosis Avant Garde.

All the workers are sick or were sick or will be.

Weather Gods

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture is pleased to announce the reprise and reimagining of a specially commissioned performance work by Isadora Epstein.

Weather Gods is written and performed by Isadora Epstein. Accompanied by musicians Davy Kehoe, Daniel McAuley and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh and artist Stéfane Béna Hanly, Epstein has created a performance combining a mythological weather report with a train trip out West on the Great Western Railway. With live musical performances from the titular weather gods, featuring original scores and some familiar favourites, this work is somewhere between art performance and a memorable theatre piece.

Episode 10: Asylum Archive

This episode focuses on the collaborative Asylum Archive project, initiated by Vukašin Nedeljkovićas part of an effort to end Direct Provision and stop deportations in Ireland. Moving across art and activism, it features an interview with Lucky Khambule and a poem by Felispeaks.

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne.

Transcript: Episode 10: Asylum Archive

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 9: Positions Gendered Male in Bunreacht na nÉireann / 1937 Constitution of Ireland

This episode focuses on a documentary legal poem by Julie Morrissy, composed from the Irish Constitution. It features a reflection by legal scholar and activist Máiréad Enright, who works on issues in reproductive justice and feminist legal theory.

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne.

Transcript: Episode 9: Julie Morrissy, Positions Gendered Male in Bunreacht na nÉireann / 1937 Constitution of Ireland (available on request)

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 8: Indications of Guilt pt. 1

This episode focuses on a film by Maud Craigie, developed though her undercover training in a controversial form of psychological interrogation that is used by law enforcement. Maud is in discussion with Maeve O’Rourke of the Irish Centre for Human Rights.

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne.

Transcript: Episode 8: Maud Craigie, Indications of Guilt pt. 1 (available on request)

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 7: the Future and stuff

This episode focuses on an audio description of an artwork by Foreunner. This collaborative artistic practice involving three artists, who work with architecture, design and art.

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne.

Transcript: Episode 7: Forerunner, the Future and stuff

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 6: Fuck Box

In this episode, Eimear Walshe’s reading explores the entanglement of social and sexual life, focusing on the possibilities of re-purposing commercial vehicles.

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne.

Transcript: Episode 6: Eimear Walshe, Fuck Box

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 5: Depression in Animals

This episode features a performed lecture by Gernot Wieland. Through an uncanny balance of truth and fiction, tragedy and comedy, he explores how human identity is fearfully constructed as different to that of animals.

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne.

Transcript: Episode 5: Gernot Wieland, Depression in Animals

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 4: The Undercurrent

This episode focuses on songs from a film by Rory Pilgrim in collaboration with a group of youth climate activists in Idaho. Issues of climate justice flow into other aspects of the young people’s lives, including family, religion, friendship, and struggles for gender recognition.

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne.

Transcript: Episode 4: Rory Pilgrim, The Undercurrent

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 3: Lazarus Lingua

This recorded performance by Suzanne Walsh involves a Latin recitation of the names of a selection of extinct animals, from 4000 BC to the present day.

Transcript: Episode 3: Suzanne Walsh, Lazarus Lingua

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 2: The Leaf and the Saviour Guy

This episode is an audio version of a film by Saoirse Wall that works creatively with audio description techniques. Structured like a fable, The Leaf and the Saviour Guy proposes a reality where water can be used to heal patriarchal arrogance.

Transcript: Episode 2: Saoirse Wall, The Leaf and the Saviour Guy

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim

Episode 1: In My Language

This episode focuses on a video made by AM Baggs in 2007, a non-speaking autistic writer, activist and artist from the USA. It features reflections by actor and autistic self-advocate, Eleanor Walsh, as well as Maria Ní Fhlatharta and Eilionóir Flynn of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Transcript: Episode 1: AM Baggs, In My Language

The Law is a White Dog podcast series is commissioned by the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Sarah Browne

Produced by Orla Higgins and Sarah Browne
Narration by Orla Higgins
Edited Alan Meaney
Music by Rory Pilgrim