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Talks from last years OFFSET festival now online. This years festival here: http://iloveoffset.com/

Link is a student initiative from the university of arts in bremen, germany. They organize public presentations and workshops of artists and designers at their university. It also looks like their talks may be available as podcasts via itunes.

via manystuff.org — Graphic Design daily selection » Blog Archive » Metahaven – Vortrag.

Marque will be giving the next longlunch talk at GSA, which is on the 20th May, doors at 7pm. We’ve got 25 free tickets. Email n.mcguire[at]gsa.ac.uk if you would like one.

The talks from Sarah Tripp and David Kerr that were scheduled for 4pm on Tues 4th May, will take place on Fri 7th at 3.30pm, due to paranormal activity.

With the support of Uninstal, as part of a two day exploration of critical urban praxis with radical sound art collective Ultra-Red, The Strickland Distribution are hosting a public walk on Sunday 9th May. The walk is intended as a means to investigate contemporary urban dispossession as a consequence of gentrification in light of historical forms of primitive accumulation in the city. Led by independent writer and researcher Neil Gray, in collaboration with a range of activists and artists and housing and community groups, the walk will take a digressive route through George Square, the branded ‘Merchant City’, Glasgow Green, and the Barras Market. In a form of live critical praxis, the walk will aim to illuminate such shadowed areas as the ‘Cancer of Empire’ and the dead hand of Victoriana; the secret of primitive accumulation, past and present; ‘the Selfridges effect’ and the rent-gap; the ‘arts-led property strategy’ and affective labour; slums, tower blocks and penthouses, and the continuing crisis in housing; and the neoliberal pulverisation and commodification of social spaces.

The title of the walk refers to ‘Shadow’ and his ‘Midnight scenes and social photographs’, a paternalist Victorian account of Glasgow slums written in 1858. In the Shadow of Shadow, we propose instead an investigative ‘history from below’; a critical exploration of gentrification set in the historical contexts of the ‘second city of Empire’ and contemporary city-building. While Victorian paternalists like Shadow promoted top-down, moralistic solutions to mitigate the problems of the urban poor, we know that social change only ever comes with broad-based organising from below. Participating groups such as the Scottish Tenants Organisation, Glasgow Games Monitor 2014, and the Glasgow Residents Network are already active in Glasgow, and this walk aims to provide the means for critical self-reflection and collaborative exchange, as well as instigating and sustaining wider solidarity and activity between anti-gentrification researchers, activists, community groups, planners and artists in Glasgow. We welcome all those with an interest in this project.

Please note that the walk will be audio recorded by Ultra-Red. Recordings from the event will then be used the following Sunday 16th May in sound workshops that explore the issues raised on the walk and the possibilities for new and ongoing forms of organisation and resistance to gentrification in Glasgow.

Day 1: Sunday 9th May. Meet 1pm at Queen Victoria statue (with horse) George Square.

A public walk from George Square to the Barras market, bringing in contributions from researchers, activists and artists in a form of live critical praxis (time: 1-4pm approx.).

Followed by a screening from Document’s archive of ‘Drumchapel – The Frustration Game’ (20 mins, de-classed elements, 1989) and discussion (time: 4-7pm approx.) in Laurie’s Bar, 34-36 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QT Map: http://tinyurl.com/34v9n8z

Day 2: Sunday 16th May, 1-5pm, Kinning Park Complex, 40 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, G41 1AQ Map: http://tinyurl.com/32×7y2h

A practical sound workshop with Ultra-Red bringing together walk participants to discuss the issues raised during the walk. The aim of these workshops is to facilitate a deeper understanding of gentrification, and to instigate and sustain wider solidarity and activity between anti-gentrification researchers, activists, community groups and artists in Glasgow.

Participants include:

Neil Gray (writer and researcher)
Leigh French (co-editor, Variant magazine)
Simon Yuill (artist and writer)
Libby Porter (University of Glasgow, Department of Urban Studies; Planners Network UK)
John Cousins (radical researcher and historian)

Links/Groups:

The Strickland Distribution: http://www.strickdistro.org
Uninstal: http://www.arika.org.uk
Ultra-Red: http://www.ultrared.org/directory.html
Document – International Documentary Film Festival : http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk
Variant: http://www.variant.org.uk
PNUK: http://www.pnuk.org.uk
Scottish Tenants Organisation: http://www.scottishtenants.org.uk/about_us.htm
Glasgow Games Monitor 2014: http://gamesmonitor2014.wordpress.com
Glasgow Residents Network: http://glasgowresidents.wordpress.com
The Burgh Angel: http://burghangel.wordpress.com
East End Eye: http://gamesmonitor2014.wordpress.com/east-end-eye-paper/
South Side Crane: http://southsidecrane.wordpress.com/category/events/

Some background research by Neil Gray from Variant magazine:

‘Constructing Neoliberal Glasgow: The Privatisation of Space’
http://www.variant.org.uk/25texts/neolib25.html

‘The Clyde Gateway: A New Urban Frontier?’
http://www.variant.org.uk/33texts/3_V33gray.html

‘Glasgow’s Merchant City: An Artist-Led Property Strategy’
http://www.variant.org.uk/34texts/mechantcity34.html

‘The Tyranny of Rent’
http://www.variant.org.uk/37texts/13RentTyranny.html

Talk at 4pm next tuesday (4th may) from sarah tripp and david kerr – both really interesting practitioners, operating across design, film, illustration and art. This is the last talk of the year, be good to see as many of you there as possible. (image: Sarah Tripp)

A very generous 30 free tickets are available for the next longlunch. Thursday 6th May, 7 for 7.30pm start. Email n.mcguire[at]gsa.ac.uk if you’d like a ticket, first come first served. Any unclaimed by 4th may will be returned to sender.

Upcoming LongLunch with Tom Muller. 6th May. Will have some free-tickets, but still to negotiate quantity with Andy from Longlunch, watch this space.

Quick reminder that St. Pierre & Miquelon will be giving a talk and running an afternoon workshop next Monday, 26th April. Talk is at 11am in the second yr vis com studio, and workshop will start at 1:30 and be ‘A Visual Survey On Piracy’ – If you’d like to take part in this workshop please email n.mcguire[at]gsa.ac.uk and it’ll be first come first served. Open to all year-groups and all vis com students.

We’ve set aside 18 tickets for the Long Lunch Graphical House talk, which has relocated from the Apple Store to GSA Mack Lecture Theatre, Thursday 15th April, 6pm. Email n.mcguire[at]gsa.ac.uk if you would like one, first come first served.

A message from LongLunch…
April sees the first in a series of free events we’re running at the Apple Store in Glasgow (see you do get some things for nothing in a recession).

These free talks will follow a similar format to normal LongLunch events but will start a lot earlier (6-6:30pm), only last for about 45mins and feature only Scottish based design talent. Makes a change eh!

First up is the excellent:
GRAPHICAL HOUSE
http://www.graphicalhouse.co.uk/
Thursday 15th April 2010
Apple Store, Buchanan Street
Glasgow G1 2JX

PLEASE BOOK A SEAT BY EMAILING:
neely@longlunch.com

We’re asking you to email and let us know you’re coming to make sure we hire-in the right A/V equipment etc – we don’t want 100 folk all crowded round a MacBook!

More information will be available soon on our website and FaceBook page.

Talks from two great designers, Roy Mohan Shearer and Emlyn Firth, this Friday (5th March), 4pm 2nd year vis com studio. Come one, come all.

Anthony Burrill, Long Lunch, ECA, Tues 9th Feb. Tickets. Done.

Notification about the first talk of this term, Colin Gray. This one is going feral as we hit the streets and head downtown to Streetlevel photoworks on King St where Colin currently has an exhibition. That was an odd sentence.

Meet outside the foulis at 3:15pm on Fri 15th Jan.

James Greig has kindly sent in a list of links from his talk a couple of weeks ago:

GSA
http://www.3stripe.net/nofrills/worm.htm
http://www.3stripe.net/nofrills/superstition.htm
http://www.3stripe.net/nofrills/noad.htm
http://www.3stripe.net/nofrills/phase.htm
http://www.3stripe.net/nofrills/bandq.htm

Marque Creative
http://www.marquecreative.com
http://www.avdisco.net/design/bailliegifford/
http://www.seamusmcgarvey.com/
http://www.thechicagospire.com/
http://www.marquecreative.com/#/Podium-for-The-Chicago-Spire/

Bureau for Visual Affairs
http://www.bureau-va.com/
http://www.picture-this.org.uk/

Other
http://ijcentral.org/
http://www.avdisco.net/

Inspiration
http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/archive/smcs-logotype.html
http://www.hexaplex.nl/-/projects/
http://butdoesitfloat.com/
http://jblyth.com/blog.html (nsfw)
http://www.lingscars.com/

Just notification of upcoming talks and events, the first talk is next fri, 2nd October at 4pm in the 2nd year studio, all welcome.

(all events subject to last-minute change and wild variance).

TALKS
(all in second year studio)
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Fri 2nd October: 4pm:
David Coyle (D8) and Chris Hand (Napier University)
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Fri 9th October: 4pm: (artist talk in relation to underpass project, see projects below)
Ruth Barker
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Fri 23rd October: 4pm:
(tbc)
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Fri 13th Nov: 4pm:
Emlyn Firth (iso/ava) + (tbc)
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FILMS
(all in second year studio, all roughly last between 1 hr and 1hr30mins*)

Tuesday 29th Sept: 1pm CRUMB
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Tuesday 20th Oct: 1pm BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
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Tuesday 10th Nov: 1pm OF TIME AND THE CITY: TERENCE DAVIES
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Mon 30th Nov: 1pm MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES: EDWARD BURTYNSKY
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Mon 7th Dec: 1pm HELVETICA
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PROJECTS:
Magazine Project
Project to make a Vis Com Magazine
First Meeting, Fri 25th Sept, 1pm, Second Year Studio

Underpass Project
Cross-school project to develop and implement design for public underpass at St Georges Cross (nr woodlands)
in conjunction with Glasgow City Council
First Meeting, Tues 29th Sept, 1pm, outside mack building (walking to site)

*roughly
image: david coyle