New Publication: The Salvage Agency
TULCA Publishing is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication as part of this year's TULCA Festival of Visual Arts programme.
The Salvage Agency considers the agency and role of art in contemporary ecology and environmental action. 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.
This publication acts as a reader for the exhibition and public programme, giving further insights into the processes and intentions of The Salvage Agency and its various contributors. Novelist and playwright Walter Macken’s short story The City, written in the early 1940s, finds Galway casting aside humanity’s desire for accumulation and riches, instead revealing a place that is of the earth, and of all lifeforms that inhabit it. Catching up, decades later, with Macken’s vision has been central to The Salvage Agency. How can we critically inform ourselves and act within the repositioning that society must now undertake in the ecological epoch ahead? How will authentic dwelling manifest itself, and what are the tenants for an egalitarian realisation of the making of place? I thank all the contributors to this year’s TULCA for whom this is an urgent undertaking.
Publisher: TULCA Publishing, Galway
Publication: November 2024
Texts: Michele Horrigan
Copyeditor: Joanne Laws
Design: Pure Designs
Printed on 120gsm / 250gsm Offset
Edition of 500
This publication has been produced on the occasion of the 22nd edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, The Salvage Agency, curated by Michele Horrigan.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is supported by The Arts Council, Galway City Council and Galway County Council.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Salvage Agency
Curated by Michele Horrigan
1-17 November 2024
Galway, Ireland
Photo: Mary McGraw.