Iarlaith Ní Fheorais ~ Keywords: curating, writing, performance, access, pathology, medical history, Crip, disability, abolition, anti-ableism, place
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais is a curator and writer, currently the curator of the 21st edition of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise.
As a writer she has written for Frieze, Burlington Contemporary, Viscose Journal, Girls Like Us, and has an art and access column with Visual Arts News Sheet. She regularly contributes towards public programmes and lectures including at Somerset House, KW Institute, Konstfack University and Arts and Disability Ireland. Committed to anti-ableism in the arts, she published a free online access toolkit for artworkers in 2023.
She has previously been Curator-in-Residence at VISUAL Carlow, Assistant Curator of Young People’s Programmes at Tate and Co-Director of Basic Space.
Learn more about Iarlaith Ní Fheorais' 20 minute performance Aughrim, Barrow, Ballinasloe for WHERE THE MOON IS UP ~ DAI's Aeroponic Acts, July 2023 at Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy.
Learn more about Iarlaith Ní Fheorais' written MA thesis (DAI, 2023): Disabled Diasporas: Landscapes of Medical Incarceration and Displacement in the West of Ireland.
Follow Iarlaith's "Life after DAI" via her Instagram