A REFUSAL to be restricted by categorisation; the invention of new languages and forms of expression; and developing affinities with others is at the heart of TULCA 2020.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts returns to Galway from November 6 to November 22 - pending Government restrictions and public health advice. This year's theme is The Law Is A White Dog and the curator is Sarah Browne.
The festival will be delivered via multiple platforms, and of the 20 presentations this year, 18 are new works or have never been exhibited in Ireland before. A further 2 contributions specially commissioned for the festival book, which will be a significant feature of this year’s festival.
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The festival theme, The Law Is A White Dog, recognises that laws recognise different political, social, and moral attitudes over time, and that legal systems are different across different jurisdictions - in short, the law is neither as monolithic or as immutable as often thought.
Artists have been invited to present work that could relate to legal processes such as bearing witness, giving testimony, granting pardon, lodging complaint, forming contracts, presenting evidence, or refusing to speak in those terms.
From the worlds of visual art and law...
TULCA's participants come from, not only the visual arts, but the worlds of poetry, theatre, the legal profession, and activism: 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.
"As the pandemic has unfolded, my priority has been to find ways to support artists and their work, in new ways and in dialogue with the concerns of the project," said Sarah Browne. "We have been working very carefully and intensely I’m really excited to share this work with audiences in November, most of which has never been seen before in Ireland."
The festival will run across multiple venues in Galway city and county. See www.tulca.ie
