06:17
TULCA Gallery
Hynes Building, St Augustine St
4-19 November 2023
Mon-Sun, 12-6pm
Bridget O'Gorman
Holly Márie Parnell
Jamila Prowse
Paul Roy
Philipp Gufler
Rouzbeh Shadpey
Bridget O’Gorman | Support | Work, 2023
Bridget O’Gorman is a visual artist and writer. Using text, live event, video and sculptural installation, her work explores the body as material, considering otherness, the speculative and expanded corporeal experience. Bridget recently reached an impasse in the way that she works due to the deterioration of a permanent spinal injury known as Cauda Equina Syndrome.
A sculptural installation, forming an ecosystem of balance and precariousness reflecting on what it means to support and be supported and ultimately how we affect one another. The sculptures are large-scale ‘mobiles’: reflecting upon ideas of support and equilibrium, and created using found and fabricated media, using pulleys, parts from mobility aids, and hoists. The sculptures are informed by support and access, but will also be produced through access, made with a support worker. A commission supported by Arts & Disability Ireland’s Connect+ Award 2023.
Holly Márie Parnell | Cabbage, 2023
Holly Márie Parnell is an Irish/Canadian artist based between Wexford and Glasgow. Working in film and expanded cinema, her practice explores the ways we impart meaning and value through layers of authority and language. The work is built from personal encounters and is motivated by the subtle yet powerful truths of embodied knowledge and lived experience.
An intimate film made in collaboration with the filmmaker’s family, Cabbage reframes language, illuminating relationships of care at its centre. Bureaucratic violence, which can appear as gentle and bland, is contrasted with lived experience: the film centralises her brother’s writing (who is non-verbal and non-mobile) using eye tracking technology, and her mothers reflections to explore layers of power, and how to reclaim it within an ableist paradigm. The film takes place in the months leading up to an international move from Canada back home to Ireland – a country they had to leave a decade prior due to severe cuts in disability services.
Jamila Prowse | Crip Quilt, 2023
Jamila Prowse is an artist and writer, propelled by curiosity and a desire to understand herself through making. Informed by her lived experience of disability, mixed-race ancestry and the loss of her father at a young age; her work is research-driven and indebted to Black feminist and crip scholars. Self-taught, Jamila is drawn to experimenting with a multitude of mediums in order to process her grief and radical hope.
A large-scale patchwork textile quilt translating the individual and collective experience of disabled artists. With quotations, thoughts and experiences of disabled artists from National Disability Art Collection and Archive, five new collated oral histories with disabled artists of colour and the artist’s own lived experience; each square in the patchwork relays an experience in a disabled artist’s journey.
Paul Roy
Paul Roy is a visual artist originally from Dublin, now living in Westmeath. He received a first-class honours MA in Art in the Contemporary World in 2020, and has a background in painting, printmaking and animation. His current work reflects on how the onset of serious illness can impact upon an arts practice, altering both the subject matter and the physical approach to the processes of making art. This includes how his own personal experience of long-term ill health has informed every aspect of my creative process.
Ten monoprints that incorporate hand written text as their means of communicating their subject. The process engenders them with a loose and soft line quality and a relaxed aspect to their overall appearance, wherein it is often possible to see the results of the actions of the artist's hands directly within the image.
Philipp Gufler
Philipp Gufler explores matters of queer imagery, questioning the Western historiography, in which heterosexuality and a binary gender system define the social norm. In his artistic practice he uses various media, including silkscreen-printing on fabrics and mirrors, artist books, performances, and video installations. Since 2013 he has been an active member of the Forum Queeres Archiv München.
A series of hanging quilts, from an ongoing series of silkscreen prints that references artists, scholars and places of queer life that have found little or no place in written accounts and the historical canon. This series includes Lorenza Böttner, Lana Kaiser, Daniel Paul Schreber and Charlotte Woolf.
Rouzbeh Shadpey | Forgetting Is The Sun, 2023
Rouzbeh Shadpey is an artist, writer, and musician with a doctorate in medicine and indefatigable fatigue. His work explores (anti)colonial pathophysiologies of illness and weariness, with a focus on the aesthetics and poetics of diagnosis. Rouzbeh's musical practice, under the name GOLPESAR / گلپسر , combines avant-garde electronics, scraped guitar, spoken word, and Iranian sonics. Rouzbeh has exhibited and performed at TULCA, documenta fifteen, Mosaic Rooms, Centre Clark, MUTEK, Suoni Per Il Popolo, and more. His writing has been published in a variety of artistic and para-academic journals. He lives between Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal and Berlin.
A video-essay that seeks to restore dignity to the act of forgetting. The video-essay juxtaposes footage from the artist's grandmother—who remains silent in the face of a medical memory test being administered to her by an acousmatic narrator—with borrowed footage from two essay films which challenge state sanctioned regimes of remembering: the Iranian poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black (1962), and the Moroccan poet, filmmaker, and writer Ahmed Bouanani’s Mémoire 14 (1967). Weaving together the falsely dichotomized registers of biological memory and collective history, Forgetting is the Sun recontextualizes Farrokhzad and Bouanani’s defiance of state sanctioned remembrance through the lens of individual forgetting—and its resistance to medical capture.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland
Access: A step-free venue, with accessible toilet facilities. There are three accessible parking spots on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery.
Images: Ros Kavanagh
Video: Jonathan Sammon