Gallery Workshop: Discussion and Reflection
University Gallery, The Quadrangle, University of Galway
Saturday 18th November 2023
12:30pm - 13:30pm
An hour-long session of guided discussion and a reflective exercise will be hosted in the University Gallery. Along with a discussion on the themes of TULCA 2023, we will be delving further into contemplating some works selected by the participants. The background of the artist, artwork, concept and the curatorial decision for the work being selected would be shared, along with the responses that each may give to this work. These sessions will be hosted by TULCA Education Coordinator Aoife Natsumi Frehan, and Kate McSharry, Education Officer.
About the Artist and Work
Jenny Brady is an artist filmmaker based in Dublin, exploring ideas around speech, translation and communication. Her films have been presented with LUX, The New York Film Festival, This Long Century, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, MUBI, International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, TENT Rotterdam, EMAF, Videonale, Camden International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Images Festival, November Film Festival, the Irish Film Institute, EVA International, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Whitechapel gallery and Tate Liverpool. Her works are distributed by LUX.
Music for Solo Performer, 2022
Part-homage, part-sequel, Music for Solo Performer is a filmic reimagining of composer Alvin Lucier’s work for amplified brainwaves, drawing connections between the 1969 composition, speech synthesis and the passing of the filmmaker’s mother. Brady’s disparate assemblage of found sound and image – including EEG analysis, a Jerry Lewis Telethon and the first pizza ordered via synthesised voice – combines to form a densely concentrated transmission of cinematic pleasure, meditating on the relationship between illness and technology with pathos and care.
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise
Curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
3 - 19 November 2023
Galway, Ireland
Access: University Gallery is a basement venue accessed by three steps to reach the ground floor, followed by a flight of stairs or a stair lift to the basement. There is accessible parking located on campus in front of the Quadrangle Building. The nearest accessible bathroom is located at O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, a 4 minute walk across the green. The film time has captioned and audio described versions, played on loop. Seating is provided.
Image: Ros Kavanagh