Documentation of Public Programme | TULCA 2023
Part Three: Gallery Talks and Tours
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is delighted to share the public outcomes and online documentation of its 2023 programme, honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise curated by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais.
In part three of four of our digital content we present documentation from our Gallery Talks, Tours and Performances.
Artist Talk | Philipp Gufler | TULCA Gallery
Ridgewood Sick Center Radio Broadcast | Anna Roberts-Gevalt | Flirt FM
Curator’s Gallery Tour | TULCA Gallery
Abandoned Goods Film Screening with talk by Professor Clair Wills | Ballinasloe Library
Philipp Gufler explores matters of queer imagery, questioning the Western historiography, in which heterosexuality and a binary gender system define the social norm. In his artistic practice he uses various media, including silkscreen-printing on fabrics and mirrors, artist books, performances, and video installations. Since 2013 he has been an active member of the Forum Queeres Archiv München.
A series of quilts from an ongoing series of silkscreen prints that references artists, scholars and places of queer life that have found little or no place in written accounts and the historical canon. This selection includes artist Lorenza Böttner, singer Lana Kaiser, judge Daniel Paul Schreber and physician Charlotte Woolf.
Listen back with artist and musician Anna Roberts-Gevalt for a special two hours of live music, chat and songs by sick artists as part of TULCA's Community Takeover on FLIRT FM.
Anna Roberts-Gevalt is a restless artist, making work with composition, traditional music, sculpture, and community organising around disability justice in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. Their longtime folk duo Anna & Elizabeth was heralded as “a radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do” by The New Yorker. They performed at Carnegie Hall, the Newport Folk Festival, the Hirshhorn Museum, Big Ears Festival (where she was guest curator of traditional music), and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert.
Join curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais for a walk around the TULCA Gallery to hear about the development of the TULCA 2023 programme honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise.
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer based between the UK and Ireland. She is an Independent Producer with field:arts, working closely with artists Bridget O’Gorman and Ebun Sodipo. Recently she has curated Speech Sounds as Curator-in-Residence at VISUAL Carlow as part of Carlow Arts Festival and collaborated with Emma Wolf-Haugh on a new film commission for Ulysses 2.2. In previous roles she worked at Tate Modern and Britain as Assistant Curator of Young People’s Programmes and was the co-director of Basic Space from 2016-18.
As a writer she has written on the work of Jesse Darling, Manuel Solano and Lorenza Böttner for Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal and has an art and access column with Visual Arts News Sheet. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, Arts and Disability Ireland and Goldsmiths University.
Committed to improving access in the arts, she is currently developing an Arts Council England funded access toolkit for curators and producers. She is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design and is currently studying at the Dutch Art Institute.
J.J. Beegan was an artist and sculptor who made drawings repeatedly naming himself, his profession and Ballinasloe, as a long stay patient at Netherne Mental Health Hospital, in East Surrey, England, where he made drawings recalling home.
Screened in Ballinasloe for the first time, Abandoned Goods (2014) is a short film that explores the many artists making work in Netherne, including artist and sculptor J.J. Beegan, through archival and 35mm footage. Following the screening there is a talk by Professor Clair Wills, who discusses her process of searching for Beegan, and crucially about what happens when we can’t trace people, what then does the evidence amount to.
Contributors to honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise include: Áine O’Hara, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Bog Cottage, Bridget O'Gorman, Edward Lawrenson & Pia Borg, Holly Márie Parnell, Jamila Prowse, Jenny Brady, Leila Hekmat, Nat Raha, P. Staff, Paul Roy, Philipp Gufler, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Sarah Browne and Sean Burns.
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
www.tulca.ie
Video documentation: Jonathan Sammon
Photo credits: Ros Kavanagh