![Glass model of a comb-jelly (Beroë punctata) by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, circa 1880. [Courtesy of the Zoology and Marine Biology Museum, University of Galway]](http://www.advertiser.ie/images/2024/09/143182.jpg "Glass model of a comb-jelly (Beroë punctata) by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, circa 1880. [Courtesy of the Zoology and Marine Biology Museum, University of Galway]")
The 2024 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 22nd festival edition, titled The Salvage Agency and curated by artist Michele Horrigan will run for two weeks from November 1 in multiple venues across Galway.
Established as the west of Ireland’s key annual showcase of contemporary art, TULCA combines Galway’s art institutions, cultural initiatives and public space, presenting Irish and international artistic positions vital to our understanding of life today.
The 2024 programme will feature new commissions, artistic contributions and exhibitions by Seanie Barron, David Beattie, Stephen Brandes, John Carson, Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, Michelle Doyle and Cóilín O’Connell, Bryony Dunne, Peter Fend and Finn Van Gelderen, Regina José Galindo, Léann Herlihy, Michael Holly, Patrick Hough, Joan Jonas, Catriona Leahy, Julie Morrissy, Áine Phillips, Jorge Satorre, Niamh Schmidtke, Temporary Services / Half Letter Press / Breakdown Break Down Press / Public Collectors, Lily Van Oost and Stuart Whipps.
The Salvage Agency considers the agency and role of art in contemporary ecology and environmental action.
Michele Horrigan notes: “Galway, on the edge of the northeast Atlantic, is a unique location for a heightened awareness of what is at stake. Explorations of landscape, seascape and nature, public space, colonial history, political structures, the industrial complex and folk narratives are all pertinent. These are paths taken by our collective society in the shaping of today’s world and a contemporary Europe.
“Can art create an undercurrent of improvisation and frugality, haphazard formality, and change to offer new perspectives, provocations and empathy? From the wreckage, can art nourish a new reality?”
A full festival programme will be released in early October.
