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This year the concept for the programme is "After the fall", a familiar yet ambiguous phrase that is used in this context to relate a set of ideas querying the role of art at a time of local, national and international recession, political collapse and social upheaval. These collapses expose the current porousness between the logics of society, economy, politics and capital. The exhibition; a pause in an endless circulation of ideas, is part of a system that mirrors these spheres, yet is simultaneously defined by the ongoing blurring between the definitions of life, art and politics. The impossibility of subversion in this context is apparent, but through the creation of a temporary community formed through local and international networks of exchange, the exhibition provides the opportunity to intervene into private and public spheres of intersubjective and collective understandings. "After the fall", attempts to look at art in a wide scope of contexts that positions itself in the juncture at the end of one era and the beginning of the next. The programme includes local and national artists as well as international artists who are invited to showcase their work in Galway. TULCA is funded by Galway City and County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland. Tulca's vision is to be accessible to a wide-ranging audience featuring local and international exhibitions, live art performances, talks and discussions with admission free to all events. For a full programme of events at the Tulca Visual Art Festival, click here. |
Tulca is the Gaelic word for wave, flood, deluge, gush, outpouring. It is an independent organisation that reflects a unique coming together of eight arts organisations. Working through partnership TULCA - season of visual arts, is capable of presenting a diverse programme of quality visual art projects that engages and inspires. This year, Tulca will take place in Galway City & County from 4th -20th November. 
