TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is pleased to announce the contributors to its 2021 festival programme, titled there’s nothing here but flesh and bone, there’s nothing more, curated by Eoin Dara.
Festival dates: 5 - 21 November 2021, pending government restrictions and public health advice.
Contributors to there’s nothing here but flesh and bone, there’s nothing more are artists, filmmakers, writers and poets:
Sophia Al-Maria, Claire Biddles, Renèe Helèna Browne, Miriam de Búrca, CAConrad, Mariah Garnett, Lauren Gault, Patrick Hough, Adrien Howard & K Patrick, Jasmine Johnson, Vishal Jugdeo & vqueeram, Stanya Kahn, Theodore Kerr, Sekai Machache, Mira Mattar, The Many Headed Hydra, Mícheál McCann, Tonya McMullan, Harun Morrison, Isobel Neviazsky, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Nisha Ramayya, Amanda Rice and Jay G Ying.
there’s nothing here but flesh and bone, there’s nothing more will unfold gently across different sites in the city in November including the An Post Gallery, Galway Arts Centre, Columban Hall, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Nun’s Island Theatre, and Pálás Cinema.
This project is an aggregate of many unwieldy things including wet caresses, soft affection, immortal loves, necessary resistance, quiet rest, careful togetherness, boundless longing, abiding loss, honeyed scents, close correspondence, vocal exaltation, enduring solidarity, unexpected intimacies, ecstatic whispers and deep tenderness.
Everyone is warmly invited to this unfolding, to be touched by new artworks and ideas temporarily inhabiting Galway at the beginning of an unknowable winter.
The names listed above have been drawn together through a process of direct invitation as well as through TULCA’s annual open call, which closed in April of this year. Of the 24 artistic presences within this year’s programme (which includes 3 collaborative practices), 14 were invited and 10 were selected through the open call. Further to this, several of these voices will speak through letters and written correspondence which will be gathered together to form this year’s TULCA publication as well as appear throughout Galway during the run of the festival.
“Working towards TULCA this year has been a profound experience for me so far, both professionally and personally — not least due to the ongoing uncertainty that occupies so much of our collective thinking as we continue to move through the pandemic.
From corresponding with hundreds of artists through the open call process in spring, to then embarking on detailed conversations with this year’s contributors to shape the programme over the last six months, I have learned such a great deal and I’m honoured to have been able to develop these connections across a vast breadth of artistic practice in such peculiar circumstances.
I feel immense gratitude and affection towards everyone involved in this year’s festival for allowing me to draw together their work in this way, and I am so looking forward to sharing all of it in Galway this November.”
— Eoin Dara, Curator
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
there’s nothing here but flesh and bone,
there’s nothing more
Curated by Eoin Dara
5 - 21 November 2021
Galway, Ireland
www.tulca.ie
Image: Isobel Neviazsky, Two Figures 2021. Graphite on paper. Courtesy the artist.