TULCA 2020 Artist Talk Series | GMIT CCAM (Online)
Curator's Talk: Sarah Browne
Monday 2 November 2020
14:00 - Curator's Talk with Sarah Browne
15:00 - Q&A chaired by Lucy Elvis
TULCA’s popular Artists’ Talk Series continues for this year’s edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne. TULCA is delighted to continue its partnership with GMIT Centre for Creative Arts and Media to bring to you our popular curator’s talk along with talks by three of this year’s exhibiting artists every Monday for 4 weeks starting 2 November 2020.
This year’s talk series will take place online and tickets can be booked through our website and Eventzilla listings.
Gain an insight into the curation of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The Law is a White Dog. Curator Sarah Browne will provide an overview of the festival theme and the curatorial principles that have guided her programme of unique artworks and events.
Curator: Sarah Browne
The TULCA festival in 2020 will be delivered in multiple platforms. Like every year, artworks for The Law is a White Dog have been selected through a process of direct invitation as well as TULCA’s annual open call, which closed in late March with 180 eligible applications. Of the 20 artist presentations in the festival (including 3 collaborative entities), 12 were invited and 8 were selected through the open call. There are a further 2 contributions specially commissioned for the book, which will be a significant feature of this year’s festival.
The Law is a White Dog is a project that recognises that ‘Law’ is not a straightforward force. It is present as a set of representations and practices, across different temporalities and jurisdictions, that requires diverse tactics of response. Artists have been invited to consider their work as forms of address that could relate to legal processes such as bearing witness, giving testimony, granting pardon, lodging complaint, forming contracts, presenting evidence – or steadfastly refusing to speak in those terms. The Law is a White Dog is a project that brings together a range of practices that refute confinement and categorisation, that invent new languages and forms of expression, and who develop new affinities with others.‘It’s been a huge privilege and challenge to be curator of TULCA this year, and to be in close contact with an incredible range and depth of artistic practice. As the pandemic has unfolded, my priority for the festival has been to spend time engaging directly with artists and finding ways to support their work, in new ways and in dialogue with the concerns of the project. We have been working very carefully and intensely and I’m really excited to share this work with audiences in November, most of which has never been seen before in Ireland.’
– Sarah Browne, Curator
Contributors to The Law is a White Dog are artists, poets, lawyers and activists: AM Baggs, Éric Baudelaire, Rossella Biscotti, Caroline Campbell (Loitering Theatre), Maud Craigie, Máiréad Enright, Forerunner (Tanad Williams and Andreas Kindler von Knobloch), Michael Holly, Justice for Magdalenes Research, Vukašin Nedeljkovic, Felispeaks, Charlotte Prodger, Bob Quinn, Sibyl Montague, Kevin Mooney, Julie Morrissy, Rory Pilgrim, Rajinder Singh, Soft Fiction Projects, Anne Tallentire, Saoirse Wall, Eimear Walshe, Suzanne Walsh and Gernot Wieland.
Recording and participation information
Participants are requested to display their actual name while in the Zoom meeting.
Discussions will be moderated using the chat function and participants will automatically be muted on entry. Attendees may be asked to turn their camera on/off.
Accessibility information
Zoom talks will be live-captioned with Otter ai.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
The Law is a White Dog curated by Sarah Browne
6 November - 18 December 2020
Galway, Ireland
Image credit: Rory Pilgrim, still from The Undercurrent (2019-ongoing). Courtesy andriesse eyck galerie