Galway City Museum
Spanish Parade, Galway, H91 CX5P
Tuesday 5 November 2024
2pm - 3.30pm
TULCA’s Artist Talks Series returns for this year’s programme The Salvage Agency curated by Michele Horrigan. Continuing its longstanding partnership with ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will host presentations by three exhibiting artists every Tuesday beginning on 5 November 2024. This year’s series will take place at ATU Wellpark Road and Galway City Museum.
Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty
A Collection of Disarticulated Bones is an ongoing research platform and artistic endeavour by Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, developed through fieldwork and active questioning of cultural identity in Ireland, Spain and the United States over the last year. Their aim is an ambitious one: to unpick the various foundation myths of the Global North – institutional, pop cultural and embodied.
A collection of new films, photographs and objects is planned for display at TULCA, developed in a new initiative involving a production residency with the University of Galway and Galway City Museum, and partners in the United States – Solas Nua in Washington DC and Virginia Tech Institute of Creativity, Arts and Technology.
In each context, Clinton and Moriarty keep asking how stories and narratives are shaped and told, interpreted and circulated. Their initial findings point to the vital role of the individual to bear witness to history, no matter how offbeat or bizarre it might initially be perceived. In one short film, a former member of An Garda Síochána, who now runs a luxury wedding car-hire service, talks of witnessing a UFO while on patrol in the 1990s. His story was reported in the newspapers of the time with an air of credibility, due to his stature as a figure of authority in Irish society. Another vignette follows the story of a long-retired naval officer, once aboard the ship that repatriated W.B. Yeats’ remains from the south of France back to Sligo in 1948. Today, doubts exist as to whether these were, in fact, Yeats’ bones. Then, outside a supermarket near Coleraine, a replica of the Giant’s Causeway appears…
The talks are free and open to everyone, but advance booking is necessary.
Access:
We aim to ensure that our event is accessible to all individuals interested in attending. If you have access related questions, please contact info@tulca.ie
Galway City Museum
Accessible venue
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking (located on Saint Augustine street - 4 minute walk)