OPEN CALL: Szombathely Mural Workshop 2025 (ISL Translation)

Bloomsday, Szombathely has an ongoing, annual artistic programme and will present its new iteration in June 2025. In June 2024, artist Mark Joyce presented his painting in the city of Szombathely to warm acclaim. We are delighted to announce that the fourth iteration of this project will take place in 2025 and the partners wish to invite applications from artists based in Ireland to take part.

The Bloomsday project attempts to map the various references to Leopold Bloom (the protagonist of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses) in the city of Szombathely, Hungary. According to the book, Bloom’s father, Rudolf Virág, is from the city. This reference has given rise to a number of cultural projects that draw on this fictional history and try to enact real-world connections: to Ireland and to the artistic legacies of the 20th century avant garde. The proposed artwork should be inspired by episode 10 of Ulysses and applications are not expected to be illustrative of the novel but to engage with its formal and narrative experimentation.

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