Desire Paths was created for the Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, responding to the festival’s overarching theme, The Headless City. The project explored how we navigate urban environments and the bureaucratic systems that shape them, questioning who has the authority to design and define public space.

Over the course of the festival, Sorsha Galvin intervened in the landscape by covering existing man-made paths with red dust, a striking gesture that reasserted the presence and agency of the people. These paths formed not by planners but by repeated human movement embody resistance to imposed order and reflect a collective, intuitive mapping of the city.

By highlighting these informal routes, Desire Paths celebrated the quiet power of everyday decisions and the ways in which bodies reclaim space, challenging the rigidity of urban planning with acts of spontaneous choreography.