TulcaLive curation 2007
For the annual Tulca festival in Galway during November, I curated TulcaLive, performance and video art event on the subject of "Performing Lives".
This provided rich opportunities for me to witness how other artists engage with autobiography and in turn I benefited the artists involved and their work in my awareness and practical support of the challenges involved in producing work that deals with subjectivity, personal issues and experiences.
Curators Statement TulcaLive 07
"Performing Lives"
Áine Phillips
Autobiography is the theme linking the diverse live works presented for this years TulcaLive in Nuns Island Studio and NUIG. The artists, who have come to Galway from America, Europe and throughout Ireland, re-present and re-create aspects of lived experience using performance and video as languages of communication and expression of each artist's unique aesthetic. Life narratives are told and the artists' self revealed in these live artworks, using personal and singular experience to speak about the mutual, the universal and the political.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. (Fellini)
In performance, their voices and visual forms explore the personal experiences of death (Victoria McCormak), intimacy (Sam Rose), assault and rape (Jana Leo), vulnerability and the exposure of self (Anna McLaughlin and Michelle Browne), motherhood (Lisa-marie Johnson), our place in the world (Kevin Flanagan) and the limits of the body (Aileen Lambert). Artist in Residence Michael Mayhew evokes vanished people in a serial and epic work on loss and relationship. Nigel Rolfe performs his signature works "from the personal to the political" and Francoise Berlanger's theatre shows us the origins of her birth in North Africa.
In the video programme, artists perform themselves - the video acting as a performance document (Rajni Shah) or re-perform special moments from life (Katharine Lamb). Other identities are projected onto Sarah Kipp and the self within environments are explored by Agnes Nedregard and Sarah Browne/Gareth Kennedy. Clodagh Lavelle transforms the body and Kathy Rose re-creates her self poetically. At Galway City Museum, Pernille Spence shows a woman endlessly floating/ falling in a transcendent sky.
This provided rich opportunities for me to witness how other artists engage with autobiography and in turn I benefited the artists involved and their work in my awareness and practical support of the challenges involved in producing work that deals with subjectivity, personal issues and experiences.
Curators Statement TulcaLive 07
"Performing Lives"
Áine Phillips
Autobiography is the theme linking the diverse live works presented for this years TulcaLive in Nuns Island Studio and NUIG. The artists, who have come to Galway from America, Europe and throughout Ireland, re-present and re-create aspects of lived experience using performance and video as languages of communication and expression of each artist's unique aesthetic. Life narratives are told and the artists' self revealed in these live artworks, using personal and singular experience to speak about the mutual, the universal and the political.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. (Fellini)
In performance, their voices and visual forms explore the personal experiences of death (Victoria McCormak), intimacy (Sam Rose), assault and rape (Jana Leo), vulnerability and the exposure of self (Anna McLaughlin and Michelle Browne), motherhood (Lisa-marie Johnson), our place in the world (Kevin Flanagan) and the limits of the body (Aileen Lambert). Artist in Residence Michael Mayhew evokes vanished people in a serial and epic work on loss and relationship. Nigel Rolfe performs his signature works "from the personal to the political" and Francoise Berlanger's theatre shows us the origins of her birth in North Africa.
In the video programme, artists perform themselves - the video acting as a performance document (Rajni Shah) or re-perform special moments from life (Katharine Lamb). Other identities are projected onto Sarah Kipp and the self within environments are explored by Agnes Nedregard and Sarah Browne/Gareth Kennedy. Clodagh Lavelle transforms the body and Kathy Rose re-creates her self poetically. At Galway City Museum, Pernille Spence shows a woman endlessly floating/ falling in a transcendent sky.
