The Tulca Freedom Trail is a self guided audio tour based on a remapping of the famous Boston Freedom Trail to Galway. Created for Galway arts festival TULCA 2007 the project launches Friday November 9th and continues until the 26th.

TFT is part of an ongoing series of work collectively known as Cultural Tourism which seeks to facilitate a culturally minded audience in reducing their carbon footprint by enjoying the cultural highlights of the world without leaving their home town. Inspired by the Situationist concept of the psychogeographical derive the trail draws on the historic connections between Galway and Boston, explores the troubled concept of American freedom in the contemporary political climate and encourages the user to see Galway in a new and unexpected way.

I'll be leading a guided tour of the Tulca Freedom Trail on Saturday November 10th at 3.30pm starting at Tulca 1-5 Merchants Road Galway. I hope you'll join me on the walk and in a free flowing conversation about freedom, art, cultural tourism, situationism and the art of getting lost.

The Tulca Freedom Trail.
The full Tulca 2007 program