EOIN DARA, head of exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts, and who has curated exhibitions at The Mac in Belfast, has been appointed curator of the 2021 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts.
Mr Dara, who is from Ireland, will oversee the festival, now in its 19th year, and which will take place in November across multiple venues in Galway city and county.
The theme of this year’s festival is: ‘There’s nothing here but flesh and bone, there’s nothing more’, and participating artists will be asked to produce works that consider the human body as an intimate site of experience, a measure of loss, and a giver and receiver of touch - a pertinent and poignant theme in this period of social distancing.
'The future seems ungraspable'
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“I’m honoured to have been invited to curate TULCA this autumn,” said Mr Dara. “It feels exciting and daunting in equal measure to be thinking towards a project like this in the moment we’re still caught in, when even the very near future seems more ungraspable than ever.”
Given that social distancing measures are likely to be in place for much, if not all of the rest of 2021, Mr Dara said he is already planning “how best we might gather together towards the end of this year”.
Mr Dara has collaborated with the artists Margaret Salmon, P Staff, Emma Talbot, and Alberta Whittle and curated exhibition projects such as ‘Felix Gonzalez-Torres: This Place’.
TULCA is now accepting submissions for its Open Call. For information on how to apply go to https://www.tulca.ie/open-call-2021.
