Artists programmed for the project will be drawn from all art forms. At its centre, is the ambition to have artists living and working in every part of our community, co-creating projects with members of the public and making works that respond to our people and our communities. UZ Arts (Glasgow) will collaborate with InSitu programming projects ranging from the intimate to the large scale. Several projects will involve significant levels of citizen engagement. International artists drawn from the InSitu network will collaborate with Irish artists and Irish artists will also lead out on projects. A symposium in 2021 will investigate developments in publically engaged practice across Europe and report upon An Artist in Every Place as a key programme in developing this area of work. Galway 2020 has been invited to join the InSitu Platform network and through this programme will access the InSitu ACT, co-operation programme to co-produce panEuropean projects. Galway 2020 has already piloted three Artist in Every Place projects with UZArts (June/July 2016) in the City (Merlin Woods – artist open call) and the County (Kinvara, Oranmore). This programme is compatible with the concept of publically engaged art that is embedded in the Galway Cultural Strategy 2016–2025. CHANGING WAVES working with Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust artists will make waves of change by transforming the internal landscape of hospital waiting areas and public spaces. EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PASSPORT Linguists, artists and writers will create a communityinspired, fun and practical Language Passport using the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of References for Languages (CEFR), The development of the passport with local communities will ask them to assess and appreciate their own language skills, find innovative and fun ways to encourage and promote minority languages including Irish.
CONNECT – ARTISTS TO ARTISTS CURATED BY TULCA This programme is designed to provide knowledge, resources and opportunities for artists to engage internationally. It aims to create relationships and start artistic dialogue between Galway and Europe. There is a disconnection among European artists due to migration, different languages and landscapes but, through a shared cultural heritage, we aim to develop a programme of residencies, discussions and exhibitions that connect Artists to Artists across Europe.
ARIAL SPARKS led by Louise Manifold – takes as its inspiration the opening of the transatlantic radio station in Clifden, Co. Galway in 1907 and celebrates the ship to shore work of Gugliemo Marconi, whose mother was Irish. Louise Manifold will be in residence on the Marine Institute’s Galway based Celtic Explorer Research vessel, and on a 20 day research expedition will develop the framework and brief for eight Irish and European artists. to create a six part series of experimental oceanic/coastal radio broadcasts. LONGITUDE-LATITUDE Festival of Visual Art will explore the concept of borderless virtual worlds through the human lens of migration, displacement and dislocated sense of place. A European curatorial collective of artists, designers and technologists will explore the concept of borderless geographies marked by culture and imagination. The Tulca festival in October 2020 in Galway will create a virtual gateway to the City of Rijeka in 2020 using emerging virtual reality mediums to remove physical borders and empower untethered imaginations.
COMMISSIONING; SPACE, PLACE & PUBLIC REALM CURATORS: VARIOUS Site specific commissions, through limited calls and invitation in 2018, 2019 and 2020 that interrogate our relationship with our land and with our language and the inter-connectedness of both. We are an Island, we are on the periphery, we are both a rural and lonely landscape and a hip and young city. These commissions will explore our relationship through large scale commissions that interrogate our place, our identity and our language. THEN AND NOW Mary Cremin, Curator Artists: Alice Maher (IE), Ursula Burke (N. Irl), Willie O’Doherty, artist Megs Morley and Tom Flanagan (IE), John Akromah (GH/ UK), Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (FR).
The architecture of Galway’s colonial past is prevalent throughout the countryside in its Big Houses – they loom large in the landscape and often inform how we understand our past. Working with leading Southern and Northern Irish, African and European artists, this commission will examine how colonialism continues to shape our current condition and how it has affected our landscape and our language.
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