Test Lab this evening at V2 in Rotterdam, with demonstrations of 4 projects from artists who’ve been working there over the summer. I’m interested to see how the mix between demonstration/exhibition/talk format works. The Lab will be streamed live on V2 website, if it’s a good stream I definitely recommend watching as I suspect the projects will be both progressive and antagonistic. Review to follow!
Image: Another Shadow Fight — David Osbaldeston (2008).
Digital prints in Vorticist mannerism originated from woodcuts based on
Sidney Noland’s Ned Kelly series (1946-7). Newspaper kiosk design by Herbert Bayer, 1924 (unrealised). Variable dimensions. 3rd installation
If you’re in Edinburgh or the general Scottish environs on monday ‘Investigating Premodern Futures’™ : 9th August 2010 will investigate the following questions:
Is Edinburgh a ghost city? What future awaits its ‘new‘ quarters (Quartermile, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh Waterfront) areas that have no past and that are yet to be occupied? What fate awaits older buildings that have fallen empty? An Unco Site! is focused on the way in which a fantastic neomedieval ‘history’ is routinely injected into Edinburgh’s Old Town (e.g. Auld Jock’s Pie Shoppe, Frankenstein’s, Armstrongs, etc.) Is there a space for the ‘new’ in Edinburgh? As the future shuts down does the past become all that’s left to sell? ‘Zombie capitalism’ and hauntology are key themes that our panel of experts will explore here.
Part of the ongoing works of the Confraternity of Neoflagellants.
If you’re in Glasgow over the summer, you might be interested in Futureproof at Streetlevel. It’d also be worth taking in Fields, Factories and Workshops by Simon Yuill at the CCA and other venues. Lucy Duncombe (grad vis com 2010) will be performing as part of a sound/music event on the 16th September, alongside a whole range of interesting discussions, film showings and other cultural and political events. In a slightly tangentially linked article (space, politics, sustainability, urbanism etc), other vis com person Alec Farmer and his ‘Nomadic Redux‘ were featured recently in treehugger.
The National Design Triennial entitled ‘Why Design Now’ is currently taking place at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Talks from last years OFFSET festival now online. This years festival here: http://iloveoffset.com/
Visually *sparky* design (for the European Design Festival in Rotterdam) from StudioDumbar(1), makes me want to move to the Netherlands, where people generally seem (to me) more relaxed about this sort of thing.
(1) Their Performance of ‘Sniff & Kiss’, a portrait of Studio Dumbar, at Typo Berlin 2010 Saturday 22nd of May, sounds interesting.
The Foundation for Children’s Welfare Stamps in the Netherlands promoted their stamps with this animation from Paul Postma. The theme of the animation is ‘Let Children Learn’ and comes from the foundation’s belief that every child has the right to education. The animation focuses on learning through play to solve problems.
Music: ‘Brother John’ by Clutchy Hopkins & Lord Kenjamin
Sound: Jasper Boeke
Animation: Paul Postma
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.
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
Glasgow based creative agency small-media-large are hosting space made live – a visual artists take over of a Category A listed building as part of the West End Festival.
A call for submissions is currently underway. If you are interested in exhibiting and would like to know more about the project, visit http://www.small-media-large.com/space-made-live.
Streetland is a weekend of art events situated in Govanhill, happening 30th April through to Sun 2nd May, alongside many other ‘closing’ events for Glasgow International Art Festival. This set of events is entirely community organised and operating on a shoe-string, and organisers are looking for anyone interested in photographically documenting the events to get in touch. You can do that by emailing email.tomwarren[at]googlemail.com
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.
ARTIST ROOMS On Tour is a partnership between The Art Fund and the Scottish Government. ARTIST ROOMS includes an impressive selection of 232 works which span Warhol’s entire oeuvre, and reflect his eclectic career and vibrant personality.
ARTIST ROOMS in Perth will feature 67 selected works from this collection including Warhol’s early drawings, stitched photographs, prints and posters. The themes in the exhibition will look at film, fashion and photography. The display will also include a large number of self portraits.
The exhibition will be at Perth Museum and Art Gallery from 17 April to 23 October 2010.
Tickets for GSA Pecha_Kucha, at 5:30pm on Thursday 22nd April, can be booked though here: Glasgow School of Art Hub. Popular price of free. (Limited) free refreshments. Some people from Vis Com talking at it.
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.
Vis Com alumni and illustrator Emily Chappell has an exhibition entitled ‘he sleeps with the fishes’ opening at the Tron Glasgow on Monday 1st March.
This post highlights a few events coming up. Of particular note are the Polyark II events at Strathclyde, continuing the work of Cedric Price, (work pictured), operating in his preferred conditions of ‘calculated uncertainty’. Which we like.
This week Evolve will be running the final ‘Getting Your Work Out There’ event with the Made in the Shade girls coming in to talk about selling work at their events and selling work in their retail space. This will take place on Wed 27th 4-5pm in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre.
If you’re in London before April, decode at the V&A would be worth a look.
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