Tulca, The Salvage Agency / Galway, Ireland / 2024

TULCA 2024 was presented across multiple venues and locations in Galway city from 1-17 November 2024. The Salvage Agency considered the agency and role of art in contemporary ecology and environmental action. Curator of the festival Michele Horrigan notes “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. Can art create an undercurrent of improvisation and frugality, haphazard formality, and change to offer new perspectives, provocations and empathy? From the wreckage, can art nourish a new reality?”

The 2024 programme featured new commissions, artistic contributions and exhibitions by Seanie Barron, David Beattie, Stephen Brandes, John Carson, Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty, Michelle Doyle and Cóilín O’Connell, Bryony Dunne, Peter Fend and Finn Van Gelderen, Regina José Galindo, Léann Herlihy, Michael Holly, Patrick Hough, Joan Jonas, Catriona Leahy, Julie Morrissy, Áine Phillips, Jorge Satorre, Niamh Schmidtke, Temporary Services, Half Letter Press, Breakdown Break Down Press, Public Collectors, Lily Van Oost, Stuart Whipps.

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts was supported by The Arts Council, Galway City Council and Galway County Council.

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Photos by Ros Kavanagh