TULCA 2024 | The Salvage Agency | 1-17 November 2024
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to announce the contributors to its 22nd festival edition, titled The Salvage Agency curated by artist Michele Horrigan. TULCA 2024 will be presented across multiple venues and locations in Galway from 1-17 November 2024. Established as the west of Ireland’s key annual showcase of contemporary art, TULCA continues to embrace Galway’s art institutions, cultural initiatives and public space together, presenting Irish and international artistic positions vital to our understanding of life today.
The 2024 programme will feature new commissions, artistic contributions and exhibitions in venues throughout Galway city and county. Contributors to The Salvage Agency include:
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
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?”
The 22nd edition of TULCA is realised in venues throughout Galway city and county, including Galway City Museum, Zoology and Marine Biology Museum, The James Mitchell Geology Museum, Galway Arts Centre, 126 Artist-run Gallery, Galway Civic Trust, University Gallery, Pálás Cinema and more off-site venues to be announced. A series of public events, screenings, performances and encounters will feature in The Salvage Agency, with further details to be announced in October. An exhibition catalogue will be published with texts by curator Michele Horrigan, novelist Walter Macken and contributing TULCA artists.
Full festival programme and a commissioned publication will be released in early October 2024.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1-17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is supported by The Arts Council, Galway City Council and Galway County Council.
Image: 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.