FRIDAY WILL see the launch of the Galway Arts Centre’s 2022 visual arts programme, Entangled Histories, the first under its new director/curator Megs Morley.
The launch takes place in the Dominick Street venue at 6pm, and will also mark the opening of the centre’s first exhibition of 2022, Mountain Language, featuring Irish and international contemporary artists. The guest speaker will be Annie Fletcher, director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and there will be a live performance work by Sarah Pierce.
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From Duncan Campbell's work, 'The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy'.
Mountain Language features work by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Duncan Campbell, Sarah Pierce, and Alice Rekab. The title was inspired by Harold Pinter’s 1988 play which was inspired by the experience of the Kurds in Turkey, and the Tory censorship which prohibited TV networks from broadcasting the voice of the then Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams.
Galway is recognised as the most multi-culturally diverse city in Ireland, and County Galway has one of the largest areas of Irish language speakers in the country. Along with this, in the post-Brexit aftermath, questions around nationality, European-ness, migration, and borders have become important issues, which the artists will explore through installation, performance, photography, tapestry, sculpture, film, and digital drawing.
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The exhibition will include Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman’ film Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum [a still from which is above] which reimagines knowledge and existence without European and colonial constructions.
All are welcome to the launch. No booking is required. Under Covid-19 guidelines, face masks must be worn. There will be an after party in Club Aras na nGael with a DJ set by Gash Collective (focused on providing a platform for female and LGBT+ DJs and producers ), Lolz, and aisooooo. Mountain Language runs until Saturday April 16.
