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STILLS RESIDENCIES

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Director Deirdre MacKenna discusses a new phase of international artist residency opportunities

“Edinburgh’s Stills opens its doors to new groups of artists in 2010 as we embark on a new chapter of artistic exchanges working with a network of partners from Italy, Germany the Middle East and North Africa. Over the past ten years our residency model has evolved to support artists based in Scotland to undertake sustained periods of research and tailored skills-based training. Success has come from offering an open model where the opportunity to experiment and make use of Stills’ networks of curators, writers, artists and technical experts is tailored to each artist’s needs.

This year we will continue to work with artists based in Scotland, while launching our new annual residency programme in summer (join our mailing list to be kept up-to-date with application procedures, www.stills.org). We are also looking forward to welcoming Katharina Kiebacher to Stills to develop her ambitious new project as part of the RSA Residency scheme and to Ilana Halperin presenting her work in Milan as part of Fondazione Pomodoro’s ARS International Residency exhibition in May.

The nomadic working practices of contemporary artists has inspired us to explore possibilities around developing new programmes and partnerships internationally: in 2009 we presented newly commissioned works by Elín Jakobsdóttir as part of Cologne Contemporaries following an invitation from Regina Barunke and Lilian Haberer from Projects in Art and Theory. Spring 2010 we launch our new partnership with Fondazione Fotografia, Modena in Italy, selecting two groups of artists: one drawn from recent graduates of Scottish art schools invited to take part in a major survey exhibition involving 13 countries, ‘International Departure Gate’. The second will be a residency opportunity for three artists and one curator in Modena during October and November as part of a cultural exchange exploring local identity.

Finally, talks are underway with a number of artists and curators and organisations in the Middle East and North Africa aimed at bringing additional opportunities, perspectives and cultural legacies to our network for artists.”

21ST CENTURY CHISENHALE

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chisenhale Gallery director Polly Staple launches a dynamic new events programme

“21^st Century is a year-long research-based programme of talks, film screenings,

publication launches, small-scale curated projects and performances. Presented as once monthly evening events, it supports emerging artists, writers, critics and theorists, as well as offering more established practitioners the opportunity to present projects in an informal environment.

On 26 January, artists Manuela Gernedel and Morag Keil kicked off the programme. The event was great; about 70 people crammed into a small space, a good thing since the studio has minimal heating and it was freezing in London. Manuela and Morag are both ex-students of mine from the Chelsea Fine Art MA. I offered them the space for the night and they put together a programme of film screenings and performances by friends and associates: Anna McCarthy’s film ‘Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen’, 2009; a charming welcome speech by Hank Schmidt i.d. Beek accompanied by lute; a 1999 film from the legendary Glasgow female art collective Elizabeth Go; a selection of decorative pillows by Yngve Holen and Marlie Mul; and an accompanying text ‘I Need You Tonight’ by John Harrington, referencing the lyrics of INXS: ‘It’s just me, myself and I but three’s a crowd and all we got is this moment, the 21^st Century’s yesterday. I need to work on the rest of the play but how do you create something from nothing, how do you invent an event?’ The evening culminated in ‘She do the policeman in different voices’, a stunningly raw performance by Cara Tolmie singing ‘Caledonia’.

In February Aleksandra Mir introduces a rare screening of her 2004 film ‘Organized Movement’. Experimental art writing workshops will be led by Sarah Tripp, Will Holder and Melanie Gilligan, while participants from Goldsmiths’ MFA in art writing will present their work on 15 May.

The desire to initiate this programme was to be flexible and have a rapid response in contrast to the long-term planning of Chisenhale exhibitions. 21^st Century diversifies what we do – it allows us to be light on our feet.”

21^st Century, January-December, http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/events/21st_century.php

6TH BERLIN BIENNALE

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Curator Kathrin Rhomberg commissions work which will be seen in the artists’ countries of production

“As a prelude to the 6^th Berlin Biennale, the project Artists Beyond consists of international events staged by the Berlin Biennale in cooperation with different institutions in seven European countries. Artists Beyond focuses on the creative processes and the actual artistic production of seven artists – Mark Boulos, Phil Collins, Marcus Geiger, Nilbar Güres, Petrit Halilaj, Thomas Locher, and Marie Voignier. The central concern of the project is to open up production processes to local audiences in each of the seven countries, offering insights into artistic research and work at the sites of production. So, for example, Nilbar Güres will introduce her work to the Istanbul public in the space Platform Garanti. There will also be a seminar by Thomas Locher at the Art Academy of Copenhagen and Marie Voignier will give a talk at the Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny.

This year’s biennial also brings together many artistic positions on the contemporary present in multiple locations in Berlin, among them KW Institute for Contemporary Art and a venue in the Berlin quarter of Kreuzberg. Michael Schmidt’s photographic works will be shown throughout the whole biennale, while the event iself is contextualised by an exhibition with works by Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), curated by American art historian Michael Fried at our invitation and in cooperation with the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett of the the National Museums in Berlin.

The biennale will raise urgent questions about our present time. I want it to speak of the cracks in reality, about the gap between the world that is talked about and the world that is actually there. And also to ask why we have these distinctions and self-deceptions, why we have a fictional arsenal of mass media and consumption, and about the rhetorics of distraction and pacification.

My approach is actually to look less at highlights and nourish anticipation. Following the question of urgencies, there will be very subtle but also disturbing interventions leading to another way of imagining our future.”

6^th Berlin Biennale, 11 June-8 August

http://bb6.berlinbiennial.de

WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Josh Brand gives an artist’s perspective on exhibiting in the upcoming Whitney Biennial

“I’ve been living in New York for about seven years, so I like to see this show as connected to the whole experience of being here – you’re always walking through the history of art and music and writing and everything that people have created here. So much of the most intense American art of the last 100 years has happened here. I guess the Biennial is supposed to be a summary or marker of a discrete moment in American art, but I think about it more in terms of how it relates to this continuum. The idea of ‘now’ is not something you can separate from the influence of the past. Time is always mixed up and our sense of the present is coloured by parts of the past we use as a preface or context for a narrative about what is happening now.

Through the whole of the past century there have been these amazing, overlapping, interlocking histories and trajectories of people making things in New York. Its rich history is really romantic and present all the time. This history of how people live and make stuff here has a subliminal influence on your habits and friendships. Everything you do is somehow a positive creative activity – from having a shitty day job in a photo lab, to listening to music, to hanging out in the park. It’s somehow really natural to feel a sense of participation in this continuity. So I guess being in the Biennial is a more formal and dramatic way of acknowledging that I am passing through this history – a kind of romantic marker of time and geography.

I would probably feel differently about the whole thing if it weren’t for the fact that I have a close friend in the show. I’ve known Richard Aldrich since before I moved here – we have been in a band together for a long time. Both of us being in the show makes it easier to think that it has some natural connection to my everyday life. The pictures I’m showing are a little more autobiographical than things I’ve shown in the past – there are always objects from my domestic life that show up obliquely, or are translated in some way into the pictures, but here they are maybe more clearly present.”

Whitney Biennial, New York, 25 February-30 May

http://www.whitneybiennial.com/

GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL

08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Katrina Brown, director of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, talks about this year’s programme

“I hesitate to use the word ‘unique’, but there is something unarguably distinctive about the GI Festival; not quite a conventional biennial, despite taking place every two years, nor simply a ‘fleeting event’ festival. Stretching over two frenetic weeks, it is a more event-like creature than a biennial, and has many curatorial voices rather than one, the programme being comprised of both a curated segment and of numerous exhibitions and projects conceived and produced by a whole range of visual arts organisations across the city. And within its programme are a number of more ‘static’ exhibitions that run beyond the festival, some into September. It’s a format that seems to allow Glasgow to play to its strengths and foregrounds its very particular energy.

This year’s festival will occupy the now familiar array of spaces and places in the city, from major museums and regular contemporary art venues to temporary sites and locations. For the first time it extends to Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, where David Shrigley will show a group of new sculptures and related objects in a specially commissioned installation. This is his first exhibition in Glasgow for over a decade.

For this outing of the Glasgow International, my first as director, we have been working around the theme of ‘past, present, future’. This was in part suggested by prevalent trends in contemporary art practice of recent years, and in part by 2010 being the 20^th anniversary of Glasgow’s reign as European Capital of Culture, a fact which offers an interesting moment to look back, and, we hope, forward.

So much contemporary work has taken existent material as its starting point; whether film, found artifacts, design or architecture, the processes of reenactment, reconstruction and re-use are widespread. Elsewhere, other artists have looked more at how societies envisage, or speculate about, the future. Two key examples of the latter that will be at the heart of the festival are David Maljkovic and Gerard Byrne both of whom will be showing in a fantastic temporary venue on Miller Street in the Merchant City, itself a reflection of the theme, fusing as it does buildings old and new. NVA are contributing a brilliant example of the use of re-enactment with its ‘White Bikes Plan’ which re-creates a Dutch anarchist action from the late 1960s to provide free bicycles: the precursor of many a civic cycle scheme today.

There is a particularly strong range of work to be found across all of the spaces at Tramway: Christoph Büchel (showing in Scotland for the first time), our own Douglas Gordon (showing in Glasgow for the first time in too long) and Keren Cytter, as well as a busy programme of screenings and a symposium. And alongside so much work made in our current decade, we will be presenting (along with the Hunterian Art Gallery and Artist Rooms) a remarkable selection of unique works on paper and sculptures by one of the 20^th century’s most enduringly resonant and influential figures: Joseph Beuys.

Among all this there are events a-plenty, with the fantastic and unquestionably unique Linder at the Arches presented by Sorcha Dallas Gallery. Three Blows will present a magical night by Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth at the magnificent Sloans Ballroom, and every evening during the festival there will be dada-esque goings on at ‘Le Drapeau Noir’, a temporary café/club orchestrated by Raydale Dower. Sign up to our website below and be sure not to miss a thing.”

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 16 April–3 May

www.glasgowinternational.org

Performa 09

02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Roselee Goldberg, founder and director of Performa, maps out the origins, current programme, and future of the biennial of performance in New York City

"For the first time we are covering all the arts – Performa 09 will be a truly multi-disciplinary biennial – this is something never done anywhere else before. Our commissions and programming includes not only visual art, but also music, dance, poetry, food, fashion, architecture, film, television, radio, graphic design and newspapers. And this year we present more events than ever – over 110 in three weeks. And we’ll be working with more than 80 venues across the city. Special this year too is that we’re marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Futurist Manifesto in 1909.

This year Performa Commissions include extraordinary new works by Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, and Yeondoo Jung. We also have two multi-artist Performa Commissions, one for music – 19 composers between San Francisco and New York for 16 noise instruments – and one for film – commissions from 11 filmmakers to recreate a lost futurist film. We also have an incredible series in our Performa Premieres programme of work by Keren Cytter, Tacita Dean, Alicia Framis, Loris Gréaud, William Kentridge, and Joan Jonas. Performa Commissions are created and produced from scratch with the artists, especially for Performa and New York City; the premieres are works that are not strictly commissions since they were in progress before the invitation to participate in Performa, yet they have a special connection to the programme and are being presented for the first time.

We have a very strong educational programme too that includes exciting panel discussions and presentations at all the major city universities (NYU, Columbia, Cooper Union, Hunter) and an important historical exhibition at PS1 organised with MoMA, PS1, Performa and the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Du?sseldorf.

I founded Performa in 2004 because I was tired of performance art being treated as a side show, an after-thought, by museums, curators, art historians and critics, and at biennials and art fairs around the world, when it is so central to the history of 20th century art. After writing several books (the first in 1979), teaching at NYU and internationally, and curating various museum series on performance, I thought it was time to establish an organisation that would make this material available to a larger public, provide a context for its history, and in essence become the ‘performance art’ department of contemporary art museums. I established a biennial to bring this remarkable history to life and to write the next chapter of performance for the 21st century, by commissioning entirely new work.

We are developing brand new concepts about the city of the future, growing cross-disciplinary intellectual communities and putting into practice the idea of culture as a kind of active urbanism. We will continue with our satellite projects begun in Shanghai in 2006, will be initiating projects in other cities, including Moscow, and are working on some extraordinary programmes for Performa 2011 that go into early production in 2010.”

Performa 09: the third biennial of performance in NYC, 1-22 November

Hanging Matters

02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Patrick Elliott, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, talks about a new re-hang to celebrate the gallery’s 50th anniversary.

"The Gallery of Modern Art holds over 5000 works: it’s your collection, you own it, so why haven’t you seen it all? (You can see a lot of it by going to www.nationalgalleries.org/collections, but it’s not the same as seeing the real thing). The answer has partly to do with exhibitions. In the past ten years, as exhibitions have become the life-blood of museums and galleries, we have devoted roughly half of the gallery to them: Tracey Emin, Richard Long and Robert Mapplethorpe count among our recent, big, successful shows. The flipside is that the collection is confined to a smaller number of rooms. And since there’s an expectation that certain works will always be out (Scottish Colourists, big names like Picasso and Matisse, iconic works such as Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘In the Car’, and contemporary work from Scotland) there’s limited scope for change.

But radical change is what we are about to offer. From November, for the first time since the gallery moved to its current home at Belford Road, Edinburgh in 1984, we shall re-hang the whole building in one go, suspend major exhibitions for a year, and give prominence to the collection.

The timing presages our 50th anniversary year: the gallery first opened at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden in 1960. Some displays will be thematic; mixing famous and little-known works, we hope to provide surprising juxtapositions. These thematic rooms will be interspersed with small solo exhibitions: a room of new works devoted to the American artist David Schutter; an extraordinary installation by Martin Boyce and a new work by young German artist Kitty Kraus. Upstairs, the artist Callum Innes has been given total freedom to curate a two-room display with works from the collection and selected loans.

As well as showing rotating, challenging new displays from the collection, the programme will also feature changing single-room exhibitions by leading Scottish and international artists.”

SNGMA: What you see is where you’re at, from 28 November

Pawel Althamer

02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Suzanne Cotter, curator at Modern Art Oxford, describes Pawel Althamer’s ongoing project Common Task.

"It is difficult to talk about Pawel Althamer’s project for Modern Art Oxford, presented at the gallery from December, as an exhibition. The very nature of his practice goes beyond contained forms of art-making as we know them, and challenges the institutional frameworks in which they are traditionally presented. At Oxford, he provides a portal into his new work Common Task, transforming the gallery into a teleportation station.

Consistent with his interest in, and creation of, ‘directed reality’ (his real-time films in Llubljana, Warsaw and London are some examples), Althamer talks of Common Task as a kind of science fiction film in real time involving neighbours from the Warsaw housing estate of Brodnó where he lives. Dressed in gold space suits, appropriate to the space and time travellers they portray, the group have journeyed to Brasilia and, in a spectacular golden plane, to Brussels where Althamer directed them in activities that involved people locally. The next journey is to Mali in Africa to spend time with the Dogon people. Althamer spent time with the Dogon as part of a Polish anthropological field trip in 1991 on leaving the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw. It is this journey that will provide the focus of material presented in Oxford’s spaceship, as a time capsule being continually updated.

Common Task reflects a coming together of Althamer’s ongoing preoccupations with parallel realities and the idea of the ‘Open Work’, in which an artistic proposition is translated and transformed by external agents. It also reveals several strands of continuity and coherence in his ongoing engagement with his local community, in which he created the emblematic ‘Brodnó 2000’ as well as his own artistic journey back in time. Its manifestation in Oxford radically dissolves the institutional context and the day to day functioning of the space, replacing it with a dispersed field of possibility and transformation.”

Common Task: Modern Art Oxford, 12 December 2009-7 March 2010

Face to Face

02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Collector, founder and president of the eponymous foundation in Turin, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo talks about FACE.

"The idea for the FACE group had been in my mind for at least two years before we first presented the project at the European Parliament in Brussels in 2008. In the beginning, although I knew that it wouldn’t be easy to bring together foundations working in different countries with varied approaches towards their activities, I also thought that it could be interesting to unite and highlight their mutual aims and their differences through long term collaboration, which over time would develop the foundations more and more as a collective. Then, I started talking to Dakis Joannou, Antoine de Galbert, and David Neuman about the idea; it all started from there. FACE founding members are all non-profit foundations established by private collectors who have set up public spaces for the production and promotion of contemporary art. The group came together to broaden and empower their activities collectively through new ambitious international projects.

The exhibition Investigations of a Dog, its curatorial concept inspired by the short story by Kafka, presents over 40 works from the collections of FACE partners and also offers an interesting insight into the ways the collections differ and how they can work together. The works were selected by the curators of the five foundations following a period of intense mutual feedback and tight collaboration. After being presented at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, the exhibition will begin a long tour to other FACE partner exhibition spaces and then on to a series of major European museums.

The FACE group looks forward to future projects, which will include supporting artists through the production and exhibition of new work, further exchange and experimentation with the collections and basically to draw on our individual skills to work together on new ideas for the arts.”

Investigations of a dog: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 21 October 2009–7 February 2010

The Briggait Re-opens

02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Alison Fullerton of WASPS views The Briggait, a stunning new artist development in the heart of Glasgow, due to open in December 2009. Built in 1873, the Briggait building is an exciting new creative space for Glasgow.The city’s fishmarket for 100 years, it closed in the 1970s and lay neglected.

"During the 1980s an attempt to turn the Briggait into a shopping centre failed and in 2001 Glasgow City Council allowed WASPS (an artist studio organisation) to relocate there temporarily while other studios were being redeveloped. The building proved popular with artists and the slow process of redevlopment began.

The end is now in sight. The Briggait has been transformed into 5,500 square metres of public and private space, including 68 workspaces for visual artists and cultural organisations, five shop units for let to creative industries and a beautiful new public space within the 1873 Courtyard.

Award-winning architects, Nicoll Russell Studios have made a fantastic job of blending contemporary features with the historic architecture of the building. Workspaces are distinctive in style and many incorporate original features such as Victorian roof trusses, arched windows and ornate portholes overlooking the River Clyde. We’re confident that artists will respond positively to the £6.5m development. Lettings begin in December 2009 and the courtyard will be open to the public from spring 2010.

A second phase to redevelop 4,000 square metres of derelict space within the site into workspaces for dance, circus, street arts and live arts is at the planning stage. Once complete, the Briggait will be devoted to the making of cross- artform work; as such, it will be the first venue of its kind in the UK.”

For more information visit www.thebriggait.org.uk

Enlightened Comission

14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Curator of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival’s ‘The Enlightenments’ programme, Juliana Engberg is enthuses over the commission by Joseph Kosuth

In looking for venues for the projects I happened to meet my colleague, curator Pat Fisher in her outer chamber, which is the Georgian library at the University of Edinburgh, in which Charles Darwin as a student, first started to frame up his thoughts in respect of the origin of species. In this special year, celebrating Darwin’s ground-breaking contribution, I was immediately certain that the library had to feature in my plans. It is a beautiful space – an architectural example of symmetrical design with the playful, yet restrained decoration of stylized nature in its cornices and on its columns. Now Joseph Kosuth is not only a leading conceptualist, he is also a major bibliophile, and has, over a number of years made projects in libraries and so I decided to invite him to consider making a project for this one.

The work is a series of debates between Darwin and Joseph’s long time collaborators, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. These Kosuthian sentences and dialogues probe the paradox of content that occurs between philosophy, science and art. Presented as a set of neon diagrams and words we find Darwin’s own immediate, intuitive and creative doodles and drawings introducing the ideas that we later take as the blue prints for scientific truths. Joseph uses Nietzsche’s thoughts with a Wittgensteinian approach to interrogate the creative and philosophical slippages that occur in the convergent descriptions of philosophy in relation to art.

The room will glow with the illuminations of neon. Another beautiful enlightenment. When we first showed Pat Fisher the plans for the work, she announced ‘it is as if magic has come into the room’, and that is a lovely statement of the conceptual sublime that Joseph manifests.”

Joseph Kosuth, Talbot Rice Gallery, 7 August–26 September

Read-Out! Read-In!

14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Faith Wilding and Kate Davis are working towards a two-woman discursive exhibition project with CCA, Glasgow, entitled ‘The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?’, commissioned for Glasgow international, April 2010

"This collaboration explores how the history of our separate art practices come together to illuminate, and learn from, feminist concerns and legacies in a way that is both pertinent to the present and aware of the need to think ahead to Glasgow international 2010.
‘The Long Loch’ encompasses plans for a day-long symposium, ‘an archive room of our own peculiar resources’ (to quote Yvonne Rainer), a collaboration with the Glasgow Women’s Library who will inhabit a reading space in the CCA with part of their collection during the exhibition, and installations by ourselves.

In order to explore the question of how we have gone on, how we do go on now, and how we dream/desire to go on in the future in response to a feminist heritage, we have invited a wide range of co-inspiritors to select up to three starting points in relation to ‘feminist lines of flight in art and politics’. These suggestions, whether of texts, audio/video, film-clips, or images, will be made publicly available through the CCA website and will be printed in a lo-fi publication. The points will also provide a starting point for a network of reading groups leading up to and during the exhibition.

Anyone initiating a reading group may publicise their own list of materials, venue, etc on the CCA website by sending the information to the website’s contact address. In this way our project hopes to connect many different feminist lines of flight and create a rich archive of freely available inspiration.”

For updates on the project go to www.cca-glasgow.com

The New Showroom

14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Emily Pethick, curator of The Showroom talks about its re-opening and upcoming programme

"The Showroom had been based in the East End of London for over 20 years, and during that time produced numerous important commissions by now well-recognized artists, such as Mona Hatoum, Simon Starling, Jim Lambie, Eva Rothschild and Daria Martin, each of whom responded to its characterful triangular-shaped space. In recent years the space had become increasingly limiting for the organisation’s development, thus plans to move were initiated, and the opportunity arose for us to move to the Church Street Neighbourhood, off Edgware Road, NW8.
The Showroom’s new building is a former warehouse space, which has been renovated by the architects ifau + Jesko Fezer, Berlin (who have reconfigured a number of European art institutions, including Grazer Kunstverein, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, and Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht) in collaboration with Working Architecture Group, London. Its two floors allow us to expand the programme to incorporate an exhibition space on the ground floor and a more flexible space for events on the upper floor, which will be used for talks, seminars, workshops and a new programme of collaborative projects targeted towards working within our neighbourhood.
Situated in Westminster, the Church Street area is one of the poorest wards in the UK. A number of local initiatives are keen to change this, including the micro-regeneration initiative, Church Street Neighbourhood Centre, and architects Farrells, who have produced a detailed regeneration strategy for the area. Both actively supported The Showroom’s move to the area, in particular Sir Terry Farrell, the former occupant of the Showroom’s new space, who enabled our move. This active local network gives us numerous inroads into a complex neighbourhood that is home to very diverse communities, particularly Middle Eastern and Bangladeshi, thus we are looking forward to finding out what potential relationships can be built here.”

The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London opens with The Otolith
Group – A Long Time Between Suns Part II, on 8 September

New films in the making

14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Steven Bode, director of The Film and Video Umbrella discusses the history of the organisation and some upcoming commissions

"We have a series of new projects opening across the autumn. Each and every one is a new commission, and each is incredibly different. We are closely involved in all of them (as is usually the case), although in slightly different ways. We are making a new film with Paul Rooney; it’s shooting on location this summer and continues a relationship with Paul, begun when Film and Video Umbrella commissioned him to make a short single-take piece for our ‘Single Shot’ project in 2006.

I’ve always been intrigued by the relationship between visual art and literature (it was a key theme of the Waterlog exhibition we commissioned in 2007, which looked at the lingering influence of WG Sebald, not just on contemporary writing but in shaping a sense of place particular to that part of the East of England where Sebald lived and worked). Paul’s film began as a loose adaptation of one of Malcolm Lowry’s short stories, but over the course of its development it has changed considerably. It still has the Lowry story as its inspiration, but has grown into a completely autonomous piece.

The piece we are developing with Duncan Campbell, on the other hand, had a different genesis. We were approached by Chisenhale and Tramway, already in discussion with Duncan at that time about an exhibition of new work. Since we joined forces, we’ve been able to give our collective backing to a much bigger project, which we hope will give Campbell the opportunity to make a significant new piece of work involving a re-construction of a scene from the DeLorean factory in Belfast in the 1980s.

These two films, like the video installation by Suki Chan, ‘Sleep Walk, Sleep Talk’, an impressionistic study of contemporary London that we are also launching this autumn, are indicative, I think, of the breadth and vitality of film and video practice in the UK. For all the artists we work with, these commissions afford the opportunity to work with a larger production set-up than they have been used to. And though outwardly different from another recent work of ours, ‘Balnakeil’ by Shona Illingworth, these commissions are vivid evocations of a particular place at a particular pivotal moment.”

Film and Video Umbrella, full programme on www.fvu.co.uk

Nottingham Contemporary

14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Alex Farquharson, curator of the new Nottingham Contemporary, talks about highlights for the year ahead and beyond

Nottingham Contemporary opens on 14 November. It is primarily a centre for contemporary art, with four beautiful, large, sky-lit galleries. We also have a performance space, the largest room in the building, with a full light and sound system. We can do anything in there – artistically, educationally, socially. The building is by Caruso St John. At 3000 square metres it is one of the largest public galleries in the UK without a collection. It is built into the sandstone cliff that runs through the centre of Nottingham, and is the only green and gold building I know of. It’s a fantastic space for the coming together of artists and audiences of all kinds.

Nottingham Contemporary will be playing a central role in the life of the city. We want and expect a high volume of visitors, most of whom will be new to contemporary art. They will be drawn here by the building, by our learning programme, by some of the more familiar art, by us having a great café-bar (designed by Matthew Brannon), and simply out of curiosity. We want to be inclusive. At the same time we want Nottingham Contemporary to be a journey, not a reiteration of the status quo. We see art today as an occasion for an unfettered discussion; one that crosses disciplines and social divides; that addresses us as thinking citizens, not simply as consumers.
We open with David Hockney 1960 – 1968 and an exhibition of new and recent work by Frances Stark (which will travel to CCA Glasgow). This will be accompanied by a fortnightly artists-cinema and a 21st century take on the wunderkammer conceived by Pablo Bronstein.

Our second exhibition season revisits how the future was experienced under communism. Star City, is co-curated by Lukasz Ronduda and is made up of artists such as Pawel Althamer, David Maljkovic, Alexandra Mir and others predominantly from central and east Europe.”

David Hockney/Frances Stark, Nottingham Contemporary, 14 November 2009-24 January 2010

New Commission for Threshold

02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In his first solo show in the UK, Igor Krenz creates new work for Threshold artspace’s permanent collection. Here, he talks about the commission ‘Circles and Squares’ and his YouTube Mix.

The ‘outside-of-conventional-gallery’ context at Threshold in Perth determined my choice of works. Multiple screens in a public space usually have utilitarian, informative function and my primary idea was to compliment this site-specificity. But, I thought of doing that in quite a perverse way, by making visible a ‘secret language’, an informative system of mysterious cue marks used in traditional film screenings and by taking it out of its natural environment and moving it to the open public arena at Threshold artspace.

A 35 mm film print produced for the cinema projection is divided into several reels. Each reel includes up to 20 minutes of footage. In the old-style cinemas (the ‘art-house cinema’ still exist in Poland), the film is projected from two projectors. At the right moment the reels need to be switched. The cue marks on the tape are necessary for this purpose. This is the secret grammar shared by the projectionists I’m referring to.

Using found material is a travel in time for me, but it is more a travel in the sea of time, out of time. Found film footage is a kind of huge database of culture. It is more a niche than nostalgia trip for me. It signifies my curiosity in this phenomenon. Depends on the project as to where I find the original material. For this commission, I took pleasure in searching for circles, squares and other cue marks on film prints made by film production companies, or the rarest and most precious, those scraped out with screwdriver by film projectionists themselves. While transferring to VHS or DVD those cue marks are sometimes left intact. I’ve seen all the films from my local video rental shop regardless of content and quality and incorporated snippets from more than 200 films in this new multi-media video installation. It was an impressive experience itself.

When I was commissioned to compile my YouTube Mix as part of the exhibition, I was driven by the artspace relationship to the concert hall. My choice of John Cage’s works was rather as a result of being impressed by a difference in approach to his personality. Here he is on a popular TV chat show in 1960 where he wasn’t taken seriously, and then 40 years later the attitude has changed completely into honor and respect in a formal performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

I am concerned with the ‘magic’ of film as celluloid, as material. I am pursuing the physicality of film, in the same way as the structuralists of the 1970s. However, it becomes realised in digital form, on video or as computer files, so it is sort of ‘neostructuralism’, a play between two media.

I have used the term ‘logical mind game’ to describe particular experiments/video performances I have been working on from late 1980s. They consist of self-provoked logical mistakes, where opposite forces mutually deconstruct each other. But, there is also a similarity in ‘Circles and Squares’, where the operative, primary function of the cue marks is replaced by the pure abstract visual forms showing just how strongly the conventions and illusion can shape ideas.

Art Under The Arches

02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Washington Garcia was established in 2006 with a series of exhibitions in the front room of a Victorian tenement flat on Glasgow’s south side. Since then it has continued to commission projects for a series of unusual locations throughout the city.

The project was a response to our perception that some city-based artists had become conspicuous by their absence from Glasgow’s thriving art scene. Claire Barclay had not shown work here for six years prior to her 2008 exhibition with Washington Garcia, After the Field, a groundbreaking site-specific installation in a barn at Dumbreck Riding School in Pollock Park.

One of our initial aims was to represent art from internationally renowned artists who have had little exposure in Scotland. This led to Kalup Linzy’s first British solo show in a disused city centre shop in April 2008. An emerging Brooklyn-based video performance artist, he captivated audiences at Glasgow international, 2008, with his rendition of ‘Asshole’, an appropriately titled RnB pastiche. After various metamorphoses and adventures involving fi res, floods and, ultimately, art, it is fitting that Washington Garcia has finally found a home in a railway arch underneath the roar and rumble of a train line. This noisy neighbour, heard every 20 minutes, serves as a reminder of our travelling roots.

For the next 18 months, we will occupy Arch 24 (Unit 13) of Eastvale Place; an expanding, vibrant, art ghetto in what has been coined the ‘Eastvale District’ of the city. We will use this time to support exciting emerging artists alongside established practitioners. The new space won’t stop our off-site commissions; in 2010 we’ll again be showing an internationally acclaimed artist in a new location.

In May Washington Garcia presents the first Scottish solo-exhibition of London-based artist Shezad Dawood, an installation centred on his new cross-genre film ‘Feature’. During 2009 and 2010, the gallery already has further ‘firsts’ for Glasgow lined up, but also welcomes much anticipated returns, including our favourite video RnB starlet, Kalup Linzy.”

New Commissioning Award

02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Director Paul Hobson reveals the Contemporary Art Society’s key objectives for its ambitious new award.

The new CAS Annual Award for Museums is worth £60,000 each year to one of our museum members; we are launching this new prize as part of our centenary programme during 2009/10. The award offers the opportunity for a museum to develop its collection by commissioning a significant new work by a contemporary artist in response to its permanent collection. The work then enters the collection. The award intends to encourage institutions to take risks with the business of commissioning to collect; it will allow the opportunity to break away from traditional approaches, to develop a close working relationship between artist and institution as well as extending the artist’s practice. We would also like the award to encourage local patronage, through the inspirational lead of the Sfumato Foundation, which has initiated this new prize and has agreed to fund it for the first three years.

Selected by a panel of internationally acclaimed artists, the award aspires to bring artists closer to the concerns and values of the museums and their audiences. Equally, it should bring the museums closer to the artist’s ideas and the process of art production. This is potentially an inspirational context for engaging audiences in contemporary art.

We are very interested in developing new models for commissioning to collect through this new initiative, by using the award and the commissioning process to support the professional development of museum curators involved in our National Network programme, and exploring how working with artists in this way can influence the culture of those institutions and offer new ways of engaging audiences in both historic and contemporary art collections.

The award will be shortlisted and selected by a panel of acclaimed artists, which in this inaugural year includes Martin Boyce, Rosalind Nashashibi, Olivia Plender and Fiona Tan. The winner will be announced in November 2009 and the commissioning process will commence immediately with a view to creating a signifi cant new work and exhibition within the next 12 months.

Eastside Projects

02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Gavin Wade, curator of Eastside Projects, which opened in Birmingham at the end of 2008, talks about collaborative work with artists.

Eastside Projects is a new artist-run space developing new models for the production and presentation of art. Previous exhibitions already initiated examination of the potential of cumulative artworks: artists are invited to make works that become part of the existing conditions of the gallery, operating at different speeds to other works. Matthew Harrison, Lawrence Weiner and Peter Fend made long-term works in September 2008 affecting exhibitions in various ways. Weiner’s work, ‘As Long As It Lasts’, 2008, was used by Simon & Tom Bloor as the title of their solo show in February 2009; the Bloor work now feeds into the current exhibition, Sculpture Show.

Sculpture Show is intended as a moment of revelry in ideas and forms and includes a range of international artists including Scott Myles, Lothar Hempel, Sue Tompkins, Athanasios Argianas, Susan Collis and Torsten Lauschman. A number of historical works by Mel Bochner, Franz West, David Medalla and Art & Language are included as contemporary provocations.

One of Bochner’s works revisits ‘Measurement: Plant’, 1969, owned by Robert Rauschenburg. A house plant was placed in front of a gaffer tape measurement grid and left to grow. The new version incorporates three of Simon & Tom Bloor’s 7 metre tall silver birch trees as an extension of the space’s continuing exploration of cumulative art processes. The other 17 trees will be planted as part of an Eastside project for Birmingham’s new city park, with individual tree sponsors.

How Not to Cook; Lessons learned the hard way - Aleksandra Mir

30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Collective Gallery’s current project: How Not to Cook lessons learned the hard way a limited edition book and art project by Aleksandra Mir commissioned and produced by Collective.

The project and book are based on Aleksandra's personal history of cooking disasters. Within the book she invites 1000 people from all around the world to give their advice of how NOT to cook.

If you contribute you get to see yourself in print and if you submit an address a copy of the book will be sent to you free hot off the press during August 2009.

Anyone can contribute and the first 1000 contributions will be published. Your contribution has to be judged as believable, i.e. based on actual experience.
Texts will be anonymous within the book and can be submitted anonymously. However, names of all contributors will be listed in alphabetic order in the back. We will not publish your email or postal address.

If you would like to make a contribution please click on the link below!

http://www.hownottocook.co.uk/

Artist Rooms

20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Philip Long, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, introduces the much-awaited ARTIST ROOMS, launched 22 January and set to take contemporary art to unexpected places.

“Anthony d’Offay studied art at the University of Edinburgh in the early 1960s and fell in love with the collections of the National Gallery of Scotland. Years later he described walking around the galleries in Edinburgh as ‘the defining experience of my life’. The gallery he and his wife Anne (a former curator at the Tate) established in London became recognised world-wide for its international reach and ambitious exhibitions, many of which travelled to public museums and galleries. Artists they worked with include Joseph Beuys, Ed Ruscha, Bill Viola, Jeff Koons, Johan Grimonprez, Damien Hirst, Bruce Nauman, Laurence Weiner, Agnes Martin and Ellen Gallagher, all of whom are represented in ARTIST ROOMS, the extraordinary collection recently donated by the d’Offays jointly to the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate.

This collection of over 700 works by 32 artists not only transforms the ability of both institutions to display modern art now and into the future, but is especially exciting because ARTIST ROOMS has been acquired expressly to provide a new national resource for exhibitions in museums and galleries across the UK. Displays from the collection will open across the country from this spring and throughout 2009, from Stromness to St Ives, enabled with additional support from the Art Fund and (for projects in Scotland) from Scottish Government.

At the heart of ARTIST ROOMS is the concept of individual rooms devoted to particular artists, so that their work can be seen and appreciated in depth. In Scotland, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery is selecting from a total of 64 Robert Mapplethorpes in the collection (26 April–27 June). Tramway will show important works by Bruce Nauman (17 April–31 May), prior to that artist’s presentation in the USA pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Aberdeen Art Gallery will exhibit Ron Mueck (29 August–31 October), while the Pier in Stromness will show the celebrated video artist Bill Viola, who is lending an additional work especially to complement their display (19 June–5 September).

For the opening, ARTIST ROOMS displays at the Gallery of Modern Art, from 14 March, will be dedicated to Vija Celmins’ ethereal images of seas, deserts and the night sky, a complete series of landscape and portrait paintings by Alex Katz, and Francesca Woodman’s intimate, surrealist influenced photographs. Photographs by Warhol and paintings by Ellen Gallagher will also be included. Damien Hirst will feature in an expanded display, which brings together works from ARTIST ROOMS – such as the iconic ‘Away from the Flock’ (an early example of Hirst’s animals in formaldehyde), and a recent butterfly painting, with additional loans from further collections.

Later in the year, one of our principal galleries will be given over to the paintings of Agnes Martin (from 6 August), a rare opportunity to see the work of the Canadian-born artist, whose cool, geometric style developed in the years she lived in New York, when abstract expressionism and then pop and minimalism were at their height. The programme for ARTIST ROOMS into the future is not yet set. Ways of working with the collection will evolve as different museums and galleries across the county respond to it. While we intend to continue the relationships we have started with galleries in 2009, we want the collection to reach across the entire country, in order that it becomes properly national. Work will shortly be completed on making the entire collection available on Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland’s websites, where the scale of the gift can be truly appreciated.”

More information on ARTIST ROOMS can be found on www.tate.org.uk and www.nationalgalleries.org

Bucherest's new art space Pavilion Unicredit

20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Eugen Radescu is co-director of Bucharest’s latest contemporary art venue, Pavilion Unicredit.

“It is important to criticise the history of a post-communist / conceptual / modern country, in both the positive and negative sense. Pavilion Unicredit is a space positioned in a former communist block that has become a testimony to the failure of communism. Apart from the critical expectations of Pavilion itself, we are trying to undertake another type of critical thinking: the criticism of the individual, the criticism of everyone, by and from everyone, including self-criticism. We propose this commitment, so all of us get the opportunity to involve ourselves, even feebly or crassly, in the existence of our society.

One hundred and forty million Russians live in communist blocks of flats, hruschiovs, named after the former 1960s communist leader. The initiator of the building was actually Stalin. As a country dominated by Russia for 45 years, Romania has the same type of habitat. Hruschiovi have some small kitchenettes; this was a big step forward, compared to the kommunalki, which had common kitchens, common bathrooms and sometimes, common bedrooms. Comfort has become the main instrument of propaganda.

Pavilion Unicredit, the new centre for contemporary art and culture, located in Victoria Square, Bucharest, is on the ground fl oor of such a building, which became a banking centre in 1993. Pavilion uses the space for the implicit messages it conveys, through its location (across from the Romanian Government building) and, through its history.

The centre opens with the multidisciplinary programme and exhibition, Statement, curated by Lia Perjovschi. Statement is the storyboard of a contemporary art centre today, a conceptual expression of the lines of force structuring both intellectual and everyday life. It is a map of ideas that may go wild or may structure itself peacefully: a laboratory where the spectators become researchers.”

Pavilion Unicredit opens 19 February

Younger Than Jesus opens in New York

20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lauren Cornell, executive director, Rhizome and adjunct curator for New Museum, New York, is co-curating the New Museum’s first triennial for emerging art.

“Younger Than Jesus poses a question: are generations a viable way to evaluate art? Given that periodisation is the primary way art history is sliced and that culture is understood to be shaped by the politics and prerogatives of successive generations, it is an important question, particularly now when the impact of people born after 1976 has not yet been fully measured. Sociologists, advertisers and journalists have made stabs at picturing this generation, but often the resulting portrait is over- simplifi ed. Younger Than Jesus presents a complex picture of how generations work in art; the show is diverse, with different philosophies, fantasies, politics and formal approaches surging through it.

Fifty artists from 25 countries will be included in the exhibition. Artists were selected for Younger Than Jesus through an unusual open curatorial model designed to echo the participatory attitudes and networking proclivities of the generation represented in the show; initial research for the exhibition was conducted through an international network of correspondents, an information-pooling group comprised of more than 150 curators, writers, teachers, critics, bloggers, and artists worldwide.

Each was asked to recommend artists for the exhibition. This methodology was intended to expand the curatorial process and challenge the traditional ‘single source’ method of creating an exhibition. Through this process, more than 500 artists were recommended and researched.

The next triennial will be curated differently. The idea is that a different team of curators will approach the theme in a radically new way. The next team has not yet been confirmed, but there is no onus on them to look at young artists; they could look at generations of artists who are disappearing, experiencing mid-life crises or they could project out into the future. It will be up to them.

There is always an urgent need to make space for new work. The New Museum has a history of giving first shows to young or under-recognised artists and, this exhibition, the only one in New York dedicated to international emerging artists, follows from that tradition.

Artists can emerge at any point in their lives. But, emergence doesn’t happen in a vacuum; it’s a fraught process that is bound by many factors, including generational ones, with artists, curators and critics of different ages creating momentum around particular ideas or practices.

Younger than Jesus will show the work of 50 emerging artists, all presenting powerful new perspectives and works. It will also provoke conversation and hopefully heated debate around questions of generations in art and across culture.”

New Museum, New York, Younger Than Jesus, 8 April-14 June

Lighthouse art space Sierra Metro announces programme

20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, opened in October 2008 as a new, independent, not-for-profit artist-run space.

“We are currently housed in a disused testing facility for the Northern Lighthouse Board in Granton, Edinburgh. Our vision is to support emerging visual artists who have made a commitment to continuing their practice and to realising their ideas. We aim to offer the artist the space for experimentation and development of new works within a flexible environment. We encourage artists to use the space like an open studio prior to the exhibition if they wish, allowing them the freedom and flexibility to test things out and experiment within the large space.

The current setting in the lighthouse allows a much larger space than is usually available to artists in their early careers; everyone we have worked with so far has been excited by the prospect of achieving things that might otherwise have been constricted by smaller premises. There is a strong community of artist-led projects in Edinburgh and Glasgow that are often peripatetic, but having a long-term location for a series of exhibitions is important to us. It allows the artists and the public a focus and a point of reference for the project.

Despite sub-zero temperatures at our first two previews, people have braved the elements to support artists; after show performances, with sound artists Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo, White Heath and Shoulder Dystocia contribute to the social occasion, a focal point of the project. Our location means we can’t rely on passing traffic, so opening previews are an opportunity to bring people together. After a successful start showing new works by emerging artists Neville Rae and Cara Tolmie, Sierra Metro kicks off its 2009 programme with Glasgow- based artist Patrick Jameson, followed in March by Edinburgh-based Kevin McPhee.

To date, the focus has been on solo presentations but this is not a rule. This year we are keen to develop group shows, as well as collaborations with other artist-led initiatives, ad hoc artist events, and off-site screenings. Sierra Metro is a welcoming art space that aims to create discussion, development and exchange surrounding diverse practices in Scotland and beyond.”

Patrick Jameson, solo show, 31 January-21 February 2009
Kevin McPhee: We Died To Make Sense Of The 21st Century, solo show, 8 March – 29 March 2009

CCA launches journal 2HB

20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2HB

Louise Shelley announces a new publishing project for innovative creative art writing, to be launched by CCA, Glasgow, in March.

“2HB is a publishing project initiated by CCA, edited by myself and Francis McKee. Sarah Tripp is designing the series. The CCA book fairs have become progressively more representative of self-initiated publishing and more experimental or ambitious projects, for example Gavin Wade’s Strategic Questions and the hosting of the Publish and Be Damned Archive.

Out of this and an interest in publications such as Dot Dot Dot and F.R. David, there seems to be a real attention and need for publications that facilitate a discursive space for new creative writing, somewhere for artists, writers and theorists to show work that might not otherwise be realised or published.

2HB is open to submissions from those interested in creative writing or fi ction with a critical awareness of issues. We will commission new work for each volume. Quite possibly each volume will focus around a particular theme but at this point we are keeping the brief open to encourage a wide range of submissions.

The first volume features new writing by Jenny Brownrigg and Steve Rushton and will be launched at the CCA Bookfair on 7 March, so please come along if you’re in Glasgow that day! It will be available from the CCA and at special launch events for each new volume.

As it is a CCA publication there is an ambition for contributors to come from an arts background, but of course it is open to anyone interested. We will be publishing four issues a year and all details of the submission and launch dates can be found on our website www.cca-glasgow.com.”

For more information, or to submit contributions, email louise@cca-glasgow.com

Edinburgh Art Festival - Call for Proposals

24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL 5 AUGUST – 5 SEPTEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Submission Deadline: 5pm, 2 March 2009

Proposals of exhibitions and events for inclusion in the 2009 Edinburgh Art Festival are now welcome.

Visual art practitioners, curators and organisations are invited to propose exhibitions and events characterised by a belief in art as inspirational and enlightening; an understanding of the needs of audiences in accessing such art; and an approach to the presentation and interpretation of work that best brings art and audiences together.

The Edinburgh Art Festival showcases the very best in Scottish, British and International visual art in Edinburgh during the August festivals. The Festival works in partnership with organisations and individuals committed to the presentation and communication of visual art of the highest quality, and celebrates their work through a selected programme of exhibitions and events within the festival framework.

The 2009 Proposal Form, further information about the submission process and selection criteria can be found at www.edinburghartfestival.com

Martin Boyce and the 53rd Venice Biennale

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Judith Winter and Graeme Domke, Dundee Contemporary Arts, discuss their selection for Scotland and Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

We are honoured to curate Scotland’s representation at the 53rd Venice Biennale, which in its initial stages came out of discussions on how to mark Dundee Contemporary Arts tenth anniversary.

The decision to focus on the work of one artist was important to us both having discussed previous presentations. We wanted the artist we selected to be representative of the most important issues in contemporary practice in Scotland and also have the international respect and authority to take on the challenging backdrop of Venice.

What usually seems to happen is that curators travel to Venice, secure a location and then consider the artists selection. Instead, we wanted to identify an artist and let the project evolve from the dialogue; considering context and location together also mirrors the way that we work with artists at DCA.

We have selected Martin Boyce principally as we feel he is an artist pushing his practice in extremely interesting ways: his work at Mu?nster Sculpture Projects last year and the current show at the SculptureCenter, New York (with Ugo Rondinone) illustrates this well. Boyce is an international artist of the highest standard and we feel his work will more than hold its own on the world’s biggest stage.

DCA has established itself as one of Europe’s key venues for the showing of challenging and meaningful exhibitions and as a new curatorial team, we want to continue to highlight the most significant contemporary practices, to an international audience, whilst also remaining sensitive to our distinct socio-geographic location. We feel the returning show in December 2009 will be a fitting celebration to culminate the tenth anniversary and will give Boyce’s work an equally charged context as it is now a number of years since his unforgettable show at Tramway, Glasgow.

At this moment it is hard to predict what to expect from the show, but during our first visit to Venice we were particularly struck by the interesting tensions between modernism and classicism in the city.

We have spent a good deal of time considering a range of potential sites and have also tracked down the work of modernist architect Carlo Scarpa. who has become something of a touchstone for the project. It was significant to discover that Scarpa was a great influence on the Scottish architect Richard Murphy, who designed DCA. With this research and additional knowledge on board, we are looking forward to securing and working within a specific building and are delighted to have Katie Nicoll on board as producer.”

Judith Winter, head of arts programme and Graham Domke, exhibitions curator, DCA
53rd Venice Biennale, 7 June–22 November, 2009

Katy Dove

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Katy Dove discusses her two year residency at Platform, Glasgow, and how working with community groups has reflected on her practice.

"For two years, I have been working on a range of projects involving school groups, a mental health group and a youth music group, all of which have linked closely to my own artistic practice, which has continued alongside these projects. Ideas have bounced back and forward between these different ways of working. Together we have explored ideas relating to sound, movement, personal places, pattern and shape.

During this period I have developed more collaborative and communicative ways of working in my own practice and this process has undoubtedly been influenced by working with these groups.
Platform has provided the facilities and support to carry out this work in an inspiring new building.

This exhibition will include two films by me, eight films made by members of Positive Mental Attitudes, a film with choreography by pupils from Wellhouse Primary School, a web project by Simon Yuill and me, and drawing, painting and photographic work.

The eight films made by Positive Mental Attitudes recently won first prize in the innovation section at the Scottish Mental Health Art and Film Festival, and we are currently looking into securing funding to run a follow up project."

Katy Dove is an artist based in Glasgow
Katy Dove, Rhythm Section, Platform, Glasgow, 1 November-6 December

Moot Moves

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Tom Godfrey, one of four artist/directors of Nottingham’s Moot organisation is excited about new prospects opened up by the occupation of new premises.

"Moot opened in a new space on 4 October this year, taking over the ground floor of a grand, four storey warehouse with a colourful history; it was previously home to a hosiery company, to Boots (Ibuprofen was discovered in the building), before becoming a bank HQ in the 1990s. Art is the new incumbant.

Working alongside Stand Assembly, the three floors above the gallery are being transformed into artists’ studios and a project space which will provide 20 artists and curators with new workspace. S Mark Gubb, Craig Fisher, Tomas Chaffe, Jennie Syson, Joseph Hallam as well as the four artists who run Moot; myself, Candice Jacobs, Matthew Jamieson and Tristan Hessing, are among the first residents.

We originally opened Moot in October 2005 and were keen to establish our outward looking perspective quickly by working with artists from all over the country and beyond. We combine a programme of solo and group exhibitions, off-site activities and publication projects such as The Long Take where 15 artists were invited to contribute to a continuous document via the use of a fax machine. Moot also takes part in events such as the Zoo Art Fair. A decision was made early on not to represent artists, but to act more as a middle ground between discovery and gallery representation. We have succeeded in doing this for artists such as Jack Strange, Jonty Lees, Sean Edwards and Morag Keil. Established as a not for profit organisation, money made from sales goes back into the gallery exhibition and commissioning programme.

Now in the new building, we’re excited by the prospect of working in a bigger and more challenging space. The inaugural exhibition by artist Tomas Chaffe features an entirely new body of work that develops his practice of subtle spatial interventions and sculptures that both depend upon and reference their display environment.”

Tomas Chaffe, Moot, 4 October–2 November

Tempor?re Kunsthalle Berlin

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thomas Eller discusses the new Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin and its significance to the city

"Initial ideas for Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin came from a white cube installation in the Palast der Republik. The two initiators of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Coco Ku?hn and Constanze Kleiner, thought it was a great location. They organised a show there that lasted a few days, but it was so successful everyone started talking about Berlin needing a Kunsthalle. The last one in Berlin closed more than ten years ago; all of a sudden there was call for a new one, so they ran with the idea to build one on Schlossplatz. The art magazine ‘monopol’ presented a proposal for a different Kunsthalle, calling it ‘Cloud’, which is a reference to a Berlin song from the 1920s. But Constanze and Coco found a patron, Dieter Rosenkranz, founder of the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin, who made a pledge of one million euros to construct the building. Once they had his commitment the deal was made.

The site is at the heart of Berlin. Imagine what that means... Germany values freedom for the arts, so it’s highly symbolic. It puts a very different focus on what we do here and that’s the way we are going to frame the exhibition programme over the next two years. We opened with an exhibition by Candice Breitz, with a new work opening in a few weeks; a portrait of Jack Nicholson. On the exterior we have artist Gerwald Rockenschaub’s facade. We are the only Kunsthalle that I know of that has an interior and exterior space. That came from discussions with the architect Adolf Krischanitz on the history of the white cube. Rockenschaub who was part of the planning at this stage said, why don’t we put a cloud on the outside – what we have is a pictogram of a cloud, a gentle gesture to the competitors. But it also explores how we visually communicate these days.

What has come from discussions, is that the state of Berlin’s commitment has to be independent of our efforts. We are here for two years and then we have to move. We have plans to move to another European capital and more or less function as an ambassador for Berlin, probably moving east.”

Thomas Eller is artistic director of Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin

New Glasgow Sculpture Studios

24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Beagles & Ramsay have undertaken the first production residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios’ new home to develop their practice and create two monumental sculptures. GSS is an organisation that has supported the development and creation of work for the last 20 years from its early days as an artist cooperative in Dennistoun to the more recent facilities offered in the Briggait.

With the move to 145 Kelvinhaugh Street, it has become a unique centre for research, production, presentation and the dissemination of contemporary sculptural practices. The new premises unite 45 artist’s studios alongside woodwork, metalwork, stone and ceramics workshops, and construction spaces for large-scale sculptures all of which are open to members. GSS offer access to research, library and social spaces. The studios are a constant hive of activity with work being produced for projects throughout the UK and across the globe.

"We were invited to undertake the first of the new three-month production residencies and the outcome is our exhibition Good Teeth. What has been great about the residency is the opportunity it has given us to work in a larger studio for several months and to receive the support necessary to allow us to create an ambitious, sculptural installation.

This new dimension of our work has come to the fore over the past few years and we saw this as the perfect opportunity to push things on to another level in terms of both conceptual and technical complexity. This has been an important chance to work with a new set of materials on a bolder scale than previous work.

Another distinctive element of the residency has been the opportunity it has given us to work in the gallery space for a lengthy period, so that all of the individual elements of the sculptures have been made specifically for, and in response, to this particular space with some of the larger elements actually fabricated in the space itself.”

Beagles & Ramsay, Good Teeth, Glasgow Sculpture Studios,
30 October 2008–28 February 2009

Edinburgh Art Festival

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The burgeoning Edinburgh Art Festival opens in August under the directorship of Joanne Brown

"When I took up the position of director at the Edinburgh Art Festival just over a year ago, I imagined joining an established network of visual art galleries, artists and independent curators. I realise now, while many individuals are doing great things in the city, a cohesive network is under-developed and in an embryonic state.

What does this mean for the Edinburgh Art Festival? As we embark on our fifth year it’s clear that the foundations are in place – galleries and artists are producing work of international calibre and the city is home to many successful exhibition venues.

The idea for a festival of visual art in Edinburgh germinated in the minds of writer Iain Gale and artist Richard Demarco. Recognising that visual art was not to be prioritised as part of the world-renowned Edinburgh International Festival, the city’s flagship cultural event, their vision was for an independently organised mini-Venice in the Athens of the North; a commissioning Festival that would invite national organisations to exhibit international contemporary art throughout the city.

They quickly concluded that galleries were already commissioning contemporary art of international merit – in response the EAF set about the challenging task of enhancing the collective profile of these to create a celebration of visual art which would be greater than the individual galleries could achieve on their own. Any commission they agreed would be done in collaboration to enhance the network rather than compete with independent galleries.

Today, galleries, curators and artist’s collectives are enthusiastically using the EAF platform to develop ambitious visual art initiatives.
EAF 2008 marks the emergence of several important new spaces. Ingleby’s new premises make it the largest commercial contemporary art gallery outside London. A Victorian swimming baths has been transformed into the new Dovecot Studios. And the Gallery at Eskmills dares to take contemporary art out of the city.
Significantly, there are more exhibitions and events this year than ever, a sign that there is growth in the number of emerging collectives and independent curators using the city as gallery.

So there is a change of gear within Edinburgh’s contemporary art community. The budding collaborative spirit that crosses commercial, public, independent and institutional boundaries is creating an increasingly strong network, through which EAF can act as a facilitator for increasingly ambitious projects. With a number of unique events, this year’s EAF comes ever closer to becoming the mini-Venice dreamed of by its originators.”

Edinburgh Art Festival 31 July–31 August

2 Turin Triennial

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Daniel Birnbaum, director of Portikus, Frankfurt, discusses the tasks of curating 2 Turin Triennial and the 53rd Venice Bienniale.

"50 Moons of Saturn will be a large group show of rather young artists, most of them in their thirties. But, I don’t want it simply to be another young art festival, so I have introduced a theme that I hope will give the show its atmosphere: the influence of Saturn.

Of course, this can imply many things, from a fascination with cosmic phenomena to an interest in inspirational states of mind. My hope is that the show doesn’t become too introverted or gloomy. The melancholic is also someone who says no to an all too simplistic notion of collective ‘progress’, and the temperament can perhaps involve a kind of resistance. Also, melancholy can be a state of inspirational bliss.

The Triennial has been divided into three exhibitions: one group show, 50 Moons of Saturn, and two solo exhibitions. The idea is that the other two institutions involved (Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengoalso) are given the opportunity to present two large projects by two key artists. In this case they will be Olafur Eliasson and Paul Chan respectively, artists I have worked with and written about for many years. I think they represent interesting approaches to the infinitely rich theme of saturnine influence. There is science, cosmology, as well as wild metaphysical speculation.

I really don’t know yet if there will be any crossovers between 50 Moons of Saturn and the 53rd Venice Biennale. I have been involved in some 50 shows in my life, and I’m sure they all somehow influence each other, but it is not how I actively approach things. I see them as totally different projects, and Venice is a more complex operation. The good thing is that I now know much more about young Italian artists, which is a good preparation for working with the biggest artistic endeavor this nation realises every second year.

Turin is a very privileged place for contemporary art; after all the city has two of the most prominent institutions in Europe and a very ambitious art fair that happens at the same time as my show. An exhibition like this can create productive links between the institutions and make visible what an interesting city this is for art. I’m happy they asked me to do this, and I really do have a feeling that the people here want it to become a beautiful event.”

2 Turin Triennial, 6 November 2008-18 January 2009

MAGAZINE 08

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Javier Marroquí and David Arlandis are Spanish curators working this summer at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop on the venue’s annual show, MAGAZINE 08. Here, they discuss why they have brought together work by artists from Spain, Croatia, Austria, Denmark and France.

"We studied together at the University of Valencia, where we began to work as curators. I think the fact that we have known each other for so long has meant we’ve formed a really good working relationship. Our confidence in collaboration enables us to go one step further. We always try to break down relationships between curator/artist/institution to form a creative team.

We’ll be in Edinburgh for a week in order to finalise the details of the MAGAZINE show. We’ll be back on 18 August to lead a workshop in which we’ll discuss our curatorial investigation, and specifically to talk about the concept ‘Positive Critical Potentials’, a subject we have been studying for some years. Sociologist Elske Rosenfeld, an ex-member of the art group Big Hope, is joining us.

‘Positive Critical Imagination’ is part of a wider curatorial project through which we investigate, study and publish new social and cultural agents that are able to change the world nowadays. In this project you can see and participate in several works that go beyond negative criticism, denunciation criticism, and examine the global order with a view to finding alternative ways to existing organisational structures.

We try to involve visitors in the process of knowledge production that artist’s in the exhibition are developing individually or collectively. Many of their proposals invite us, not only to reflect upon, but to act, to take part in different activities or areas. Our aim is to inspire new ways of questioning the norm. Visitors might then leave thinking, ‘It doesn’t have to be this way, there are alternative routes, systems, ways of thinking or living.”

MAGAZINE 08, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 3-24 August

New Aberdeen Space

19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A new space for contemporary visual art in Aberdeen is scheduled to open by 2011. Lindsay Gordon, director of Peacock Visual Arts, is confident of its potential impact on culture in the north.

"We are delighted to be working with award-winning, international architects Brisac Gonzalez on their first Scottish building which will undoubtedly be a stunning new addition to both the cultural and architectural landscape of the north of Scotland. The design, a £13m development, has already won praise from Architecture + Design Scotland for its sensitive style and the collaborative approach taken to make it a reality. Already dubbed ‘The Northern Light’, its north-facing glass terraces will be located in the heart of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens.

Importantly, the new building offers us the opportunity to create a brand new model for an arts organisation in the 21st century, housing gallery space, printmaking, television and dance studios, workshops, digital and film-making facilities and space for hosting film, music and talks. This pioneering partnership between Aberdeen City Council and Peacock Visual Arts will bring together four of the city’s key arts organisations together under one roof in an innovative and imaginative way.

For Peacock, this is the culmination of a 10-year journey which has transformed our internationally-respected printmakers workshop into one of Scotland’s finest contemporary arts organisations.

We hope that the new centre will be a beacon of creativity in the north of Scotland and help position Aberdeen on par with other northern European cultural centres such as Stavanger, Copenhagen and Helsinki.”

Three Blows

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Curator Sarah Lowndes explains how she intends to highlight the work of Richard Youngs, Sarah Kenchington, Luke Fowler, Tony Swain, Stephen Jones, Danny Saunders and Richard Wright in a very unusual performance space in Edinburgh

"The idea behind Three Blows is to present non-amplified live performances by experimental musicians, many of whom are also practicing artists. They will respond creatively to the intimate and unique environment of the hall, which was designed for listening to acoustic music. Most of the participants will be using either stripped down means or inventively ‘prepared’ instruments.

The event has two themed evenings, ‘For the Voice’ (with Red Krayola frontman Mayo Thompson as headline) and ‘Imaginary Landscape’ (with ‘prepared guitar’ pioneer, Keith Rowe), and a third strand, ‘Thinking Music’. This encompasses discussion and tours of St Cecilia’s Hall Museum of Instruments, which contains some of the world’s best-preserved early keyboard instruments and an important collection of harps, lutes, citterns and guitars.

St Cecilia’s is the oldest purpose-built concert halls in Scotland, and the second oldest in Britain, and has special acoustic properties, owing to the oval shape of the room and the elliptical domed ceiling. Amplification is both unnecessary and undesirable – even a whisper from the stage can be heard very clearly at the back of the room.

We wondered who could rise to that challenge and be enthusiastic about the prospect. Richard Youngs, for example, is going to give an unaccompanied vocal set, while Sarah Kenchington has long been interested in the idea of non-amplified sound. The title derives from the pious romance of St Cecilia, the patron saint of church music. It is said that her appointed executioner let his sword fall three times without succeeding in severing her head from her neck. The title plays upon the double meaning of blow: in the context of the myth of St Cecilia and in the musical sense of the word.”

Three Blows, 5,6 July in St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh

Paulina Olowska

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Featured in the latest issue of MAP, Polish artist Paulina Olowska opens an exhibition of new work, 'Zofia Stryjenska', at the Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin. 12 - 29 June.

Edinburgh Art Festival

12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The EAF opens this year on 31 July and includes work by Tracey Emin (Gallery of Modern Art), Richard Hamilton (Inverleith House) and Kay Rosen, whose texts will be written on the walls of the new and very much expanded Ingleby Gallery.

VISIBLE CINEMA

12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

MAP presents artists' films
18.30 CCA CINEMA, Sauchiehall Street
Sunday 17 February

Rosa Barba / Duncan Campbell / Oskar Dawicki /
Duncan Marquiss / Shahryar Nashat / Wilhelm Sasnal / Mark Wallinger / Jane and Louise Wilson / TJ Wilcox

Visible Cinema dispels the impression of filmic reality. It seeks to find new routes to create, challenge and reverse the myth of the cinematic.

Tickets £5/£6 now available from Glasgow Film Festival box office:
Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB, 0141 332 6535

Visible Cinema is part of Glasgow Film Festival and Magic Lantern's shorts series.

RSVP: JIM LAMBIE

16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Straight from a solo show at the Hirshhorn Gallery in Washington DC and a group exhibition at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Jim Lambie continues his US tour this autumn at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, a grand civic museum currently undergoing a transformation. He is the third artist (and first non-American) to be commissioned to participate in the Museum’s acclaimed RSVPmfa series. The series, which began in 2000 with a commission from Jonathon Borofsky, invites artists to produce work in response to the physical presence of the MFA: its public spaces, hidden areas, collections or surrounds.

Lambie’s immersive environments, transformations of familiar objects and those characteristic floor works, manifest his approach to interior space as consistently one of both exposure and exploration. It is this particular concern with the architectural that led RSVPmfa curator, William Stover to believe Lambie was perfectly suited to this project: ‘much of his work is devised in relation to a specific space, changed through improvisatory decisions on site which enable him to point out the parameters
of the existing architecture and the visitor’s direct relationship to it.’

It is this direct, visceral relationship that will be invoked when his commission opens on 10 November. Lambie has created 80 chairs adorned with brilliant colour, shattered mirror pieces and other found materials which will be suspended from one of the walls of the museum’s West Wing Galleria. Within these opulent confines, Lambie’s installation will sensationally transform mundane objects, its promised ‘rhythmic and kaleidoscopic energy’ constituting a visual jolt and an interesting juxtaposition to the concurrent major exhibition, Napoleon’s Symbols of Power.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 10 November 2007 – 25 May 2008

THREE SPACES

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

As the art market continues to grow despite a generally unsettled economic forecast, Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh, set up ten years ago by Richard and Florence Ingleby and now one of Scotland’s leading contemporary art galleries, is moving from its beautiful Georgian ‘gallery within a house’ premises next year. Re-location plans are now underway, with the result that the city centre will have a new, spacious international contemporary art gallery by mid-2008.
As a consequence, the gallery, which currently represents the estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay as well as Sean Scully, Callum Innes and Alison Watt among others, have eschewed the practice of their regular six to seven shows a year, to undertake an ambitious project of specially commissioned collaborative exhibitions, 26 in all. Each lasts only two weeks. Each shows work by two artists sharing an intimate back room space. This experiment, with its fast turnover and open brief, has allowed the gallery to flex a curatorial ingeniousness in preparation for widening its remit when establishing the new space. Unusual partnerships such as Marine Hugonnier and Matthias Fayos, Richard Wright and Samuel Beckett, have
been forged.

And in a fortuitous collision of commissions, Richard Forster, who chose to show alongside Richard Artschwager at this Ingleby initiative in September, is Map’s commissioned artist this issue.
Another organisation in the city, the Dovecot Tapestry Studios, renowned internationally since the 1960s, are moving next year from temporary accommodation into a grand renovation designed
by Edinburgh architect Malcolm Fraser. The spacious and elegant Victorian Infirmary Street Baths is a building at the heart of the city’s university area and a stone’s throw from Edinburgh College of Art. While the main dramatic, vaulted and roof lit space, once the swimming pool and changing room area, will now accommodate looms, designers and all projects connected to this contemporary art weaving business, there will also be room in the complex for two large gallery spaces.

London’s Riflemaker specialises in unusual haunts. While Tot Taylor and Virginia Damtsa continue to trade from the ex-gunshop in Soho (represented artists include Gavin Turk, and Francesca Low, who recently collaborated in the gallery with Glasgow based artist Alasdair Gray), they are expanding in December into St Barnabas House. On Soho Square, it opened as a refuge for the homeless in 1746, and more recently acting as a a concert venue, this stylish building, complete with its own chapel, has a new role as palace for contemporary art. Riflemaker responds to the building’s former use with an inaugural exhibition of work by Marta Marcé, an artist who explores ideas of destiny, chance and games, as metaphors for life.

www.inglebygallery.com
www.riflemakergallery.org
www.dovecotstudios.com

PAVEL ALTHAMER

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan explains the gallery’s acquisition of the stunning work by Pavel Althamer at the Foksal Gallery Foundation stand at this year’s Frieze Art Fair.

‘He’s definitely an artist we have identified for the collection. This piece in particular we found compelling because, in the way Pavel’s work does so often, it looks at a multiplicity of concepts within one work, in this case, the role of the Foksal gallery, which has a very particular history within Warsaw, Poland and other former eastern block countries – it is a place which has been such an important focal point for so many artists. So on the one hand it serves as a homage to what the gallery has been, then looks at its present and its future. It is a play on the mobile unit. And there is something close to discomfort as well in what the artists might feel, at times, participating in art fairs. This gallery has a not for profit practice – the money all goes back to funding what they do, the studios, the publications. It’s sort of an anomaly in the art fair context. Pavel’s piece is partly pointing to the irony of going on the road with the gallery, while at the same time is very much about the artist’s practice and the collective nature of that group of artists.’

Pavel Althamer’s work will be on show at Tate Modern some time in 2008.

LANDMASS

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Ilana Halperin’s ongoing project Towards Heilprin Land explores geological shifts. Halperin presents drawings and photographs from recent field trips to Greenland at doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Her practice is rooted in personal, rather than political, experience and this work is inspired by the chance discovery of American volcanologist Angelo Heilprin, also an artist, possibly a relation. Heilprin Land, a small piece of inaccessible landmass in the north of Greenland, was named after him. She explains,

‘Trace memories of being in such a remote and frozen place feature more prominently within the work at doggerfisher. Towards Heilprin Land is an evolving body of work, so different constellations of material from the project can be drawn from, depending on the context. Each incarnation – from the Sharjah Biennial 8, to the lecture commissioned by Tiffin for the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow – attempts to articulate a specific idea, all related but
in slight variations. It’s an ongoing log book.

I’ve been working with the idea of how one might make art within a geological time frame – exploring ways to make corporeal sense of geological phenomena through direct physical contact. I’ve been doing an Alchemy Fellowship at the Manchester Museum, and our first “geological experiment” combines slow time in caves (petrification) to fast time in lava flows. In March I’m doing an exhibition at the museum, of alchemy related work.’

Ilana Halperin, Towards Heilprin Land, doggerfisher, Edinburgh,
26 October - 21 December

ONE MILE

01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

In summer 2008, Collective Gallery’s One Mile project, lead by artist Kate Gray, will complete a three year programme of exhibitions, publications and events that has connected this contemporary art space with its local area in Edinburgh. Since summer 2005, artists, community groups and institutions including N55, Spartacus Chetwynd, Move On, David Sherry, Mark Neville, Freee, Ellen Munro, Space 44, Johanna Billing and Scottish Widows have collaborated on projects within a mile radius of the gallery, exploring the role of public art as well as creating a significant body of new work.

Johanna Billing’s film of local (non-seafaring) musicians on the Firth of Forth, This is How We Walk on The Moon, was screened in June 2007 in Edinburgh and then shown at documenta 12, Germany. David Sherry is working with homeless group Move On in an exploration of shopping and social interaction – themes common to the artist’s previous work. This project culminates in a publication out early 2008. Spartacus Chetwynd’s 16mm film, The Call of the Wild, shot on location on the Isle of Lewis with a cast of pattern cutters and knitters from Edinburgh, will premier at a secret location on 30 November, 2007.

Now on the final lap, Kate Gray says, ‘One Mile
has given myself and other artists a different method to work with. It challenges what we do by allowing us to work in an organic way with others. It’s great the way the many different works have involved many different types of people, artists and locals alike, on their own terms.’ Her own contribution, a film made in collaboration with staff at Scottish Widows, will be shown next year.

LOVE AND FEAR

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

French artist Claude Closky’s newly commissioned work ‘Love and Fear’, 2007, joins the rapidly growing permanent collection at Threshold Art Space, Perth. Forming the centrepiece of the exhibition Body Language, it deepens Closky’s exploration of language and social satire, inventing words in a colourful blaze. Engaging with our collective understanding of signage and communication, ‘Love and Fear’ is displayed over the 22 monitors in the Perth Concert Hall foyer which constitute the Wave.

Much of Closky’s practice is characterised by similar themes. In 1997 he made ‘Do You Want Love or Lust?’ (www.diacenter.org/closky). This web-based work, commissioned by the Dia Center for the Arts, explores isolated moments and social situations, asking the viewer to reconsider them from different perspectives through process and repetition, a seemingly endless list of pop culture propositions.

Closky’s work is included in private and public collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis. An extensive back catalogue of his web-based pieces can be viewed on www.sittes.net.

Other new works included in this summer showing have been made by Matt Hulse, Su Grierson, Kosta Tonev, Sam Spreckley and Dan Perjovschi, whose Map Commission, Issue 2, 2005, was translated into a screen-based work, entitled ‘My World’.

Body Language, Threshold Artspace, Perth 12 May – 4 October
www.horsecross.co.uk

Beautiful People, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
16 September 2007– 6 January 2008
www.friesmuseum.nl

KRIS MARTIN

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Since Belgian artist Kris Martin’s appearance in of mice and men, the 2006 Berlin Biennale, with his impressive ‘Mandi III’, 2003 (a black departures board absent of characters or numerical data, first exhibited at SMAK, Ghent, 2003), his practice has gained considerable international recognition.

Martin exhibited as ‘My Private’ artist, for three days at the 52nd Venice Biennale. ‘My Private’, now in its fifth year, is a project conceived by Barbara Casavecchia, Anna Daneri and Paola Manfrin. Its aim is to challenge the notion of the collector and collecting. Value and phenomenological questions of duration and preservation are all addressed in Martin’s work which re-evaluates the way artists interact with the art they produce. ‘Vase’, 2005, an over-sized Chinese artifact, is smashed and then systematically reassembled by Martin each time its location is changed. These actions directly questions the responsibility of the collector.

Martin’s future projects are numerous – he has been selected, along with Chris Evans, Lara Favaretto, Eli?n Hansdo?ttir, Janice Kerbel, Renata Lucas, Gianni Motti and Richard Prince to contribute to the much anticipated Frieze Commissions event, one of the highlights of the Frieze Art Fair 2007, 11 – 14 October.

This year he is also exhibiting alongside Carol Bove, Peter Coffin and Jordan Wolfson among others, in Tate Modern’s Learn to Read exhibition 19 June – 2 September (see review page 52). His first solo show with an American museum opens in October at PS1, New York – it will include many of his well known pieces.

An exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris is scheduled for 2008.

www.ps1.org
www.tate.org.uk
www.cnac-gp.fr

EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

At the very outset of life, key dichotomies are laid down: art and nature, picturesque and sublime, garden and wilderness.

How we relate to these propositions is a concern of Richard Long. His long-standing artistic practice has been to walk in the wilderness. Sometimes he leaves works there – a circle of stones, a trodden path, unseen by anyone but himself. At other times, he takes photographs, documents the facts of a walk in sparse poetry, or takes the raw materials of wilderness – stone, mud, driftwood – to make art.

Long’s influence is profound. He is of a generation of artists trained in the 1960s who helped change the perception of what art could be. When he walked up and down in a field until his footsteps had worked a path, he changed the understanding of the artistic line. Idea and realisation, process and finished work, became
intertwined.

Thanks to him, walking became part of the artist’s lexicon. Drawing on the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord and Iain Sinclair, artists, writers, musicians, film-makers have become
psychogeographers, following ancient maps or making their own, walking and looking, reading the traces human beings leave behind.

Typically, they walk in cities – living, dynamic organisms which are more than the sum of their parts. Francis Alys, on a project with Artangel in 2005, made seven walks across London. Some explored specific themes, others were freestyle improvisations within highly structured spaces, subverting the rules.

Just as Alys put stones in his shoes to make him walk – and therefore see – differently, so David Sherry, whilst on the MFA course at Glasgow School of Art, chose to go about his business for a week carrying a bucket of water, finding that he saw his familiar environment in a new way.

Free-climbing – without ropes, and mostly without permission – is Alex Hartley’s way of navigating the urban environment. It informs his work, which shows this summer at the Fruitmarket Gallery, while Richard Long shows at the SNGMA, both part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, now in its fourth year and continuing to gather pace. A generation separates them but both, in their different ways, are artist/explorers, probing mankind’s relationship with his environment.

Urban can be wilderness too – a concrete jungle as dramatic and as alienating as the natural version. Polymath and visionary town planner Patrick Geddes (1854 – 1932) knew this, and tried to develop a network of green spaces across Edinburgh’s crowded Old Town. A remnant of these remain, and one will be reimagined as part of the Jardins Publics project for the Edinburgh International Festival’s new visual arts commission, this year realised by curator Katrina Brown.

Three international artists, Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright are creating work in urban spaces, work that questions what such places do and our relationship to them. At festival time, when the city is at its busiest, these will create sanctuaries for thought and the rooting of ideas.

But they are not retreats. The great garden-builder and ideas man of Scottish art, Ian Hamilton Finlay, had that right: ‘Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.’

Susan Mansfield

The fourth Edinburgh Art Festival 26 July – 2 September brings together exhibitions over 35 venues to celebrate a rich visual art contribution to the world’s largest arts festival.

Richard Long: Walking and Marking, SNGMA, 30 June – 21 October.

Alex Hartley at the Fruitmarket, 27 July – 21 October.

Jardins Publics, 10 August – 2 September is showing as part of
the EIF in four different venues across Edinburgh’s city centre.

www.eif.co.uk
www.edinburghartfestival.co.uk
www.nationalgalleries.org

BIENNIALE DE LYON

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Defined by curators Ste?phanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist as an ‘archaeology of the present’, the 2007 Lyon Biennial rounds off a trilogy dedicated to the broad notion of time. After It Happened Tomorrow, 2003, and Experiencing Duration, 2005, curated by Le Consortium and Nicolas Bourriaud/Je?rome Sans respectively, the 2007 edition is like a book penned by several hands, attempting to write the history of the current decade. The starting point is an invitation to 66 ‘players’ to take part in a ‘game’.

Forty-nine international curators have been asked to choose an artist who, in their opinion, ‘has a vital place in this decade’, which has resulted in curator/guest artist teams as varied as Daniel Birnbaum/ Tomas Saraceno, Francesco Manacorda/Armando Andrade Tudela, Tom Morton/Charles Avery and Francesca Grassi/ Ryan Gander. Seventeen other personalities from different fields – including artists Willem de Rooij, Claire Fontaine, Josh Smith, choreographer Je?rome Bel, architect Rem Koolhaas and writer Michel Houellebecq – have been invited to give their personal vision of the ‘00s’ by imagining what the two curators might name a ‘sequence’ in the exhibition.

The metaphor of a game with many players emphasises the curators’ will to visualise the heterogeneity that characterises art today in terms of geography and practices, and to approach the Bienniale as a network, avoiding the imposition of a single, hierarchical point of view on a history that has not yet been written. This choice also reflects a wish to reconsider the model of biennials, establishing a distinction between the present and the topical, between the critical potential of the works and the frenetic pace of these large scale events.

Christophe Gallois

‘The 00s – The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named’, Lyon Biennial 2007, 19 Sepember 2007 – 6 January 2008

www.biennale-de-lyon.org

PIER ARTS CENTRE

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Following a three year closure, Margaret Gardiner’s ‘gift’ to Orkney was re-opened this July sporting a £4.5 million refurbishment. Established in 1979, the centre continues to showcase Gardiner’s (1904 – 2005), collection of work by great British artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron, Alfred Wallis and Terry Frost, many of whom were close friends and part of the celebrated St Ives’ group. As well as enhancing this permanent collection, the building has been expanded by Edinburgh architects Reiach and Hall, to make room for new acquisitions and temporary installations.

‘Colour Spectrum Series’, 2005 by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is one of the newly purchased works. This artist, best known for his ‘The Weather Project’, 2003, in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, experiments with the colour spectrum in the Pier work – 48 framed photogravures depicting the full colour range. This compliments the current exhibition, a north light ~ cynosure, which explores colour
and light and also includes work by Katy Dove, Christine Borland, Douglas Gordon and Anish Kapoor.

Garry Fabian Miller and Callum Innes now also have work in the growing collection, while Icelandic artist Ragna Ro?bertsdo?ttir’s new work, entirely made of pebbles from the active volcano, Helka, was commissioned especially for this northern space.

a north light ~ cynosure 7 July – 10 November

www.pierartscentre.com

a north light ~ cynosure, installation view, 2007, Peir Arts Centre, Orkney

DOUBLE A-SIDE

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Art and music developed a historic bond in the 20th century. Since Yves Klein’s famous ‘Monotone Symphony’, 1960, which bridged the divide between the two – in one of the first works of the post- modern era – the inclusiveness of both practices in any cross- disciplinary undertaking has been commonplace.

Double A-Side curator Ken Pratt has selected a number of artists who are recognised as fulfilling both criteria but who distinguish a division between the two areas.

The project culminates in an exhibition spread across three separate Dutch venues in August, featuring work by Steven Claydon, whose work is also included in the Pale Carnage exhibition at the Arnolfini, Bristol and DCA, Dundee.

Claydon, ex-member of British electro band, the experimental Add (n) to X, separated from the group to concentrate on his independent art practice. Glasgow-based Rob Churm also features in the review – his illustrative poster works often advertise his own, and other bands on the fertile Glasgow music scene.

On the other hand, Heidi Kilpelainen, whose video works, often short music videos or sound works, are more closely related to her music career, signed to Bjork’s One Little Indian Records.

The range of artists in this survey, whose two practices meet and diverge at different points, provide topical contrasts in the field of art and music.

Double A-Side takes place at ARTIS, Centre for Fine Art, Hertogenbosch and Stedelijk Museum Hertogenbosch 4 August – 16 September

www.sm-s.nl
www.artisdenbosch.nl
www.cbks-hertogenbosch.nl

NATIONAL TREASURES

19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

With Venice now underway along with a number of other new biennals, national identity is increasingly visible and represented, with regards to art. Geographical boundaries are set, then realigned, twisted and manipulated, some often being the subject of artists’ work, particularly those on whom social change impacted. Even Northern Ireland – who for the first time exhibit at the Venice Biennale in the same building as Ireland – and Wales, make independent statements only to select artists with ‘flexible’ national identities. These selections offer statements of culturally rich origins rather than those of a conformist stereotypical nature, highlighting each nation’s social and political ramifications.

The extensive review of art, Made in Germany, is a three part exhibition that simultaneously asserts and denies its nationhood. With an ever changing socio- political climate and an increasingly globalised ‘art world’, identity is very often brought into question, especially when groups of artists are defined by area, the Leipzig painters for example. Featuring 52 artists including Bjorn Dahlem, Jonathan Monk and Peter Piller, who have all indeed made these works in Germany although are not necessarily German, this show creates a nationalism from the international.

As Made in Germany closes, Destroy Athens, the Mediterranean city’s first biennale opens. Aiming to re-assess the perceptions of the Greek capital both inside and out, it seeks to ‘destroy’ the ancient stereotypes by placing itself within the global art ‘economy’. Meanwhile, the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art completes its four month run on 30 September. This new Greek event is based around a very different set of objectives. Nationhood and all of its contradictions are currently firmly in the art circuit’s spotlight.

Destroy Athens 10 September – 18 November
www.athensbiennial.org

Made in Germany, Kunstverein and Sprengel Museum, Hannover 25 May – 26 August
www.hannover.de

MONUMENTA

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra and Christian Boltanski are the first three artists to take part in Monumenta, a new annual contemporary art event providing international artists with the opportunity to engage with the steel and glass nave of the Grand Palais, Paris. Keifer, who has lived in France for ten years reveals his work on 31 May 2007, Serra in 2008 and Boltanski
in 2009.
www.monumenta.com

MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This brand new festival includes an unusual visual arts element. Il Tempo del Postino, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno, brings together artists such as Douglas Gordon, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Matthew Barney, who will each present a short work at Manchester’s Opera House on 12 July.
www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Michael Lin, Apolonija Sustersic and Richard Wright are making work for August’s Edinburgh International Festival with the shared title Jardins Publics. Curated by Katrina Brown, the project explores the idea of the public garden in sites around the city, home to the father of town planning, Patrick Geddes, whose mantra was, ‘By leaves we live’. Now in its fourth year, the Edinburgh Art Festival runs concurrently.
10 Aug – 2 Sep
www.eif.co.uk
www.edinburghartfestival.org

PERFORMA07

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

PERFORMA07 is the second biennial of visual art performance at PS1, New York, showing new work by established and emerging artists, including Issac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Francesco Vezzoli and Daria Martin.
1 – 20 Nov
www.performa-arts.org

YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HONEST

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HONEST, a major exhibition of recent British film and video, opens at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli. The survey show of British film and video is based around new interpretations of documentary and narrative forms, many of the artists working from archival material, found image or relating to past cinema technique. It features work by Phil Collins, Luke Fowler, Cathy Wilkes,
Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer, among others.
24 May – 24 Sep
www.museomadre.it

Turner prize

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This year’s prize is to be presented out of London for the first time since it began in 1984. Work by the four shortlisted artists, Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger, will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Liverpool which opens on 19 October. Britain’s most prestigious art prize will be announced on 3 December
www.tate.org.uk

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL were the visual artists chosen to receive a Creative Scotland Award this year. Each receive £30,000 to develop proposed projects. Coombes begins a feature length screen play and a short film this year. ‘The Lady and the Lady’, is showing at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany.
www.kurzfilmtage.de
www.creativescotland.org.uk

PETER DOIG

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

PETER DOIG’s painting ‘White Canoe’, 1991, sold at Sotheby’s London for £5.7m, a dramatic increase on his previous record of £1.2m for ‘Iron Hill’. It becomes the most expensive work by a living European painter.
www.sothebys.com

KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, Glasgow, is one of four short-listed museums and galleries in this year’s Gulbenkian Prize, the UK’s largest, worth £100,000. Kew Palace, Historic Royal Palaces, London, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester and Weston Park Museum, Sheffield are also listed. The prize is awarded annually to an institution that demonstrates excellence regardless of scale or budget. The winner will be announced 24 May.
www.thegulbenkianprize.org.uk

JACKIE ANDERSON

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JACKIE ANDERSON is this year’s RSA Alastair Salvesen Scholar. She will use the £10,000 prize, towards travel to Trinidad and Tobago in search of her heritage.
www.jackieanderson.co.uk

SIMON STARLING

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

SIMON STARLING’s newly commissioned work, ‘Particle Projection (Loop)’, was shown at Weils, Brussels from dusk till midnight in the brewery room of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens breweries, which are in the final stages of renovation into a new centre for contemporary art. The work was commissioned in 2005. The newly refurbished building opens 25 – 28 May.
www.wiels.org

TATE MODERN

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

TATE MODERN plans for a £215m extension have been approved. Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the former power station will expand its gallery space by 60%. The 11 storey glass structure will open in 2012, coinciding with the London Olympics.
Meanwhile, Doris Salcedo is the next artist to participate in the Tate’s Unilever Series in the Turbine Hall. Colombian-born Salcedo exhibits for six months.
www.tate.org.uk

Dalziel + scullion

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Dalziel + scullion have been commissioned to make a new work by An Tobar on the Isle of Mull as part of the art centre’s tenth anniversary celebrations. The work responds to the centre’s name, Gaelic for ‘source’. The pair have shown recently at both Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow and Aberdeen Art Gallery.
18 May – 13 Jun
www.antobar.co.uk

GANGHUT

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

GANGHUT are on a six-month residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, working with the village to reinstate the gala day this summer. The art collective have revitalised the village hall where they now hold free workshops and events. They have also been working with the ‘GANGHUT Young Team’, at Lumsden Primary School which has its own blog on the SSW website.
www.ssw.org.uk

MOYNA FLANNIGAN

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MOYNA FLANNIGAN exhibits new and existing work at the annual Mount Stuart exhibition, on the Isle of Bute. Footprint in the Hall will be shown within the context of the historic mansion, responding to the histories of portraiture in domestic settings – an intervention in the form of drawings and paintings.
13 May – 30 Sep
www.mountstuart.com

JOHN CAGE (1912 ? 1992) and MERCE CUNNINGHAM

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JOHN CAGE (1912 – 1992) and MERCE CUNNINGHAM
A rare opportunity to see drawings by this great composer and ground-breaking choreographer. Works by the pair, who collaborated on numerous occasions since 1942, are shown together at Inverleith House, Edinburgh. Cage’s drawings open the show, gradually being replaced by Cunningham’s over the course of the exhibition, using the ‘chance’ operations beloved of them both. An all-day programme of Cage’s music is held on 24 June, with a programme of film screenings from 21 to 24 June at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
1 May – 24 Jun
www.rbge.org.uk

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI selected a series of films and performances for Lux and Tate Britain’s Select night, 4 May 2007, programming works that reflect and influence her own practice. The evening of moving images included Thomas Bayrle’s ‘Sunbeam’, 1993-94, Bonnie Camplin’s ‘Get Me A Mirror’, 2004, and Morgan Fisher’s ‘Projection Instructions’, 1976. Nashashibi is currently working on her Bookworks publication, Proximity Machine, which will be published July 2007, while her solo show Bachelor Machines Part 1 runs at Chisenhale, London, 13 April to 27 May 2007.
www.chisenhale.org.uk

AERNOUT MIK

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

AERNOUT MIK (see feature) is making new work for one of three Dutch contributions at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Focusing on issues of migration and national security, the Netherlands’ artist’s work will be accompanied by collected critical texts edited by Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova and philsopher Rosi Braidotti.
10 Jun – 11 Nov
www.bak-utrecht.nl

TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN has been awarded two UK residencies. The Glasgow-based artist will spend three summer months at Cove Park in the west of Scotland, and will take up a residency jointly hosted by Bristol’s art centres Spike Island and Arnolfini later in the year, with the intention of presenting a project at Arnolfini in 2008.
www.lauschmann.com

KARLA BLACK

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

KARLA BLACK is presenting new site specific works alongside Ian Kiaer and Knut Henrik at Poor Thing, a group show at Kunsthalle Basel.
9 Jun – 26 Aug
www.kunsthallebasel.ch

THE ART EXTRAORDINARY TRUST

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

THE ART EXTRAORDINARY TRUST opens for its summer season with a new exhibiton by David Mackie Cook (5 May – 1 July). This gallery holds an important and unique collection of outsider art dating from the early 19th century. The Trust adds new work by contemporary artists regularly.
5 May – 28 Oct (weekends only)
artextraordinarytrust
@yahoo.co.uk

MALCY DUFF

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MALCY DUFF has self-produced more than 30 publications, latterly with his own Missing Twin imprint, and has been described as ‘Scotland’s greatest living cartoonist’. He has also played with Pizza Boy Delivery, Gilded Lil, Giant Tank, and is currently one half of Usurper, the Edinburgh-based improv duo working with ‘disabled instruments’. He has provided cover art for Muscletusk, and for the latest release by former Wolf Eyes member, Aaron Dilloway. A selection from this new set of Duff originals will be published in the next four issues of Map. Duff’s most recent publications, The Blackest Gnome and the brand new A 52 Second Silence For Topsy (based on the 1903 film, Electrocuting An Elephant), are available to buy at
www.missingtwin.net.

ICC + S-AIR 2007 EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ICC + S-AIR 2007 EXCHANGE PROGRAMME is a three month residency in Sapporo, Japan aimed at artists/curators. Candidates will be asked to engage in a cultural exchange in the form of lectures and talks with the arts community in Sapporo.
Closing date 7 Jun
www.s-air.org

JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2007

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2007 is one of the UK’s most prestigious. Entrants must be in UK residence and have graduated with a visual arts degree in the past three years. Five winners will each receive £2,500, take part in a group exhibition, and will be published in the highly regarded Edinburgh-based, PortfolioMagazine, out June and December.
Registration deadline 13 Aug
www.portfoliocatalogue.com

NEW WRITING SCOTLAND PROJECT

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

NEW WRITING SCOTLAND PROJECT, a Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, initiative, promotes new art writers in Scotland. Selected by a panel of professionals, four writers will be commissioned to produce a text to accompany one of the four artists selected for New Work Scotland, 2007. Entrants must be based in Scotland and up to three years out of college.
Closing date 21 May
www.collectivegallery.net

MOVING IMAGES

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MOVING IMAGES East Ayrshire invites artists working in film, animation or video to apply for two residencies, both of which contain an educational element. Studio space will be offered in Kirkaldy’s museum and access to the rich museum collections will be offered.
Closing date 29 Jun
Arabella.Harvey@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

MISS MO TAYLOR?S TRUST

28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MISS MO TAYLOR’S TRUST is a fund for impoverished artists, worth £800.
Closing date 1 Jun
www.royalscottishacademy.org

COLLECTIVE MYSTERY SCREENING

31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

EXCLUSIVE EVENT - SATURDAY 31st MARCH
6 - 9:30pm (including travel time)

With the support of Visiting Arts, The Collective presents the first UK exhibition featuring Egyptian artist, Wael Shawky. A solo show comprising selected video works by the emergent international artist will include a one off exclusive screening of “Al Aqsa Park” at a secret location, outside Edinburgh, Saturday 31st March, to coincide with the Collective’s re-opening.

You will be taken to the event by coach for which a LIMITED number of tickets are available (£3 only -sold on a first-come first-served basis). For tickets and more information please contact the gallery.

www.collectivegallery.net

CREATIVE SCOTLAND AWARDS

14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR and SIMON YUILL were all recipients of the generous Creative Scotland Award 2007, which was established in 2000 to raise the profile of the arts in Scotland. Each artist, among 20 creatives, recived £30,000 to fund ambitious future projects in the coming year and beyond.

WILHELM SASNAL

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

WILHELM SASNAL has won the 'Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe 2006, one of Europe's most prestigious art prizes. Others short-listed were Urs Fischer, Andrei Monastyrski, Dan Perjovschi and Cerith Wyn Evans. Perjovschi was Edinburgh’s Collective Gallery artist in residence in 2004 and Map Commission artist summer 2005.
www.thevincentaward.eu

ARTANGEL OPEN 2007

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

RONI HORN, PENNY WOOLCOCK, PAUL PFEIFFER, CLIO BARNARD and ROGER HIORNS are the first recipients of the contemporary art award Jerwood/Artangel Open 2007, generator of almost 1000 proposals since it was launched last year. The £1million initiative was set up to enable artists to realise ambitious projects at home and abroad.
www.thejerwoodartangelopen.org.uk

JANICE MCNAB

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JANICE MCNAB's painting, 'The Philosopher's Ridge' was recently acquired by the Fleming Collection, London. The world's largest private collection of Scottish works aims to promote Scottish Art to a wider audience. The collection holds many historical works and has an ever-growing contemporary collection. See McNab review page 58.
www.flemingcollection.co.uk

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY returns to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where he first completed a residency in 1987. This major exhibition marks YSP’s 30th anniversary and is their most ambitious to date. 31 Mar 2007 – 6 Jan 2008
www.ysp.co.uk

RICHARD CALVOCORESSI

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

RICHARD CALVOCORESSI has been appointed director of the Henry Moore Foundation, which holds the greatest collection of works by the British sculptor. His predecessor Tim Llewellyn retires in May after 13 years in post. Calvocoressi will leave the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh where he has been director since 1987.
www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk

FRUITMARKET GALLERY

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

FRUITMARKET GALLERY, Edinburgh was runner up in the fifth annual Art Newspaper & AXA Art Prize for best exhibition catalogue of the year. First and second prize went to Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS, The Hayward Gallery, and Modernism: Designing A New World, Victoria and Albert Museum.
www.fruitmarket.co.uk

KEVIN REID

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

KEVIN REID, nominated by Bedwyre Williams, was selected for Axis' Open Frequency. The on-line portfolio, nominated by a panel of artists and curators, showcases a selection of emerging and established UK talent. An on-line archive also profiles previously selected artists since 2004 and is a resource for artists and curators alike.
www.axisweb.org

ALEX POLLARD, CAROL RHODES, KARLA BLACK and KATE DAVIS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ALEX POLLARD, CAROL RHODES, KARLA BLACK and KATE DAVIS have each been awarded £15,000 by the Scottish Arts Council to support research, experimentation and the development of new and significant projects. The award aims to provide a resource for the artists to make national and internationally visible works. Kate Davis' solo show, Your Body is a Battleground Still, is part of the Art Now series at Tate Britain 3 Feb – 25 Mar
www.tate.org.uk

MARTIN BOYCE, JEREMY DELLER and SUSAN PHILIPSZ

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MARTIN BOYCE, JEREMY DELLER and SUSAN PHILIPSZ all feature in Sculpture Projects Munster 07. The review of contemporary sculpture is hosted every ten years by the city of Munster, Germany. Installed throughout the city the invited artists' works will integrate and respond to the public space, Sculpture Projects will be accompanied by a programme of lectures, readings, film screenings, and artist talks. 16 Jun – 30 Sept
www.skulptur-projekte.de

VICTORIA MORTON and KATY DOVE

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

VICTORIA MORTON and KATY DOVE show together for the first time in Sun by Ear at Tramway, Glasgow in March. The exhibition of new work explores the commonalities and differences between both artists practices, developing themes of engagement, experience and the constructs of space.
2 Mar – 1 Apr
www.tramway.org

HAYLEY and SUE TOMPKINS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

HAYLEY and SUE TOMPKINS are exhibiting in the newly refurbished Spike Island, Bristol. The artists’ complex reopened on 3 Feb after a £2.25million redevelopment. The pair were also commissioned to redesign Spike Island's new café in collaboration with Caruso St John architects.
3 Feb – 18 Mar
www.spikeisland.org.uk

DONALD URQUHART, ALEX FINLAY, THOMAS A CLARK and KEN COCKBURN

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

DONALD URQUHART, ALEX FINLAY, THOMAS A CLARK and KEN COCKBURN have all completed newly commissioned public artworks in Dysart, Fife, encompassing its harbour and surrounding area. The new site specific works hope to engage with the local community.

ILANA HALPERIN

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ILANA HALPERIN participates in the Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates, which focuses on art engaging with social, political and cultural dimensions that relate to nature and the environment. Halperin joins a line up of over 70 internationally renowned artists. 4 Apr – 4 Jun
www.sharjahbiennial.org

LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS Will Bradley, Chris Evans, Robert Johnston, and Sue Tompkins are due to release Live at the Annandale Hotel this spring on Gargleblast records. The release will feature live recordings of tracks from their first and only album Any Other City.
www.lifewithoutbuildings.com

NESTA

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

NESTA have launched a new £200,000 fund for research into collaborations between the arts and other disciplines can foster innovation.
www.nesta.org.uk

SCOTLAND AND VENICE 2007

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

CHARLES AVERY, HENRY COOMBES, LOUISE HOPKINS, ROSALIND NASHASHIBI, LUCY SKAER and TONY SWAIN are representing Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Curated by Philip Long, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, this diverse selection of young artists profiles a range of new work from Scotland. Four of the artists are represented by one of Scotland’s most adventurous commercial gallery’s, doggerfisher in Edinburgh. Along with Wales and Northern Island, this selection compliments the British pavilion at the Biennale which will house a solo exhibition of new work by Tracy Emin.
www.scotlandandvenicebiennale.com

ROSS SINCLAIR

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ROSS SINCLAIR exhibits with Victorian painter Sir Edwin Landseer in a project conceived by curator and artist Craig Richardson. Ross Sinclair versus Sir Edwin Landseer pairs Sinclair’s intervention with the painting ‘Flood in the Highlands’ in a traditional gallery setting. This unusual partnership can be seen at Art Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum 13 Jan – 7 Apr.
www.aagm.co.uk

BP PORTRAIT AWARD

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BP PORTRAIT AWARD is now open. In its 18th year, the prize of £25,000, to a single artist, aims to promote the theme of portraiture in contemporary art. Selected competitors will also be included in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Closing date 4 Mar.
www.npg.org.uk

NEW WORK SCOTLAND

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

NEW WORK SCOTLAND programme from the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh promotes recent graduates working in Scotland. Entrants must be either in their final year or up to three years out of art school. Successful applicants will have work included in the NWS exhibition, receive a fee and have a text on their work commissioned for publication. Closing date 1 Mar.
www.collectivegallery.net

COVE PARK

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

COVE PARK This three month residency, running from May – August is open to international professional visual artists. Closing date 23 Feb.

THE FAIRBAIRN PROGRAMME is a new venture at Cove Park, bringing together a group of six professionals from different areas of the visual arts – artists, curators and writers for a six week residency Aug – Sep. It is open to all UK based practitioners who have been working professionally for six years or more. Closing date 16 Apr.
www.covepark.org

RSA JOHN KINROSS SCHOLARSHIP

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

RSA JOHN KINROSS SCHOLARSHIP enables final year students from any of the four Scottish art schools to stay and work in Florence for a period of up to three months. The award is aimed specifically at artists who practice painting, drawing and sculpture. Closing date 5 May.
www.royalscottishacademy.org

KATRINA BROWN

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

KATRINA BROWN is leaving Dundee Contemporary Arts after nine years as curator, during which time she has introduced many important artists to Scotland. Brown moves to become director of The Common Guild, a new arts organisation in Glasgow which aims to establish itself as a champion of new work in Scotland.
www.thecommonguild.org.uk

TOBY PATERSON

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

TOBY PATERSON has been commissioned as lead artist in a project to transform the facade of BBC Scotland's new Pacific Quay building in Glasgow. Collaborating with a team of Glasgow School of Art graduates, he hopes to complete work by autumn 2007.

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR, LUCY SKAER and SIMON YUILL

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

HENRY COOMBES, KENNY HUNTER, ROSS SINCLAIR, LUCY SKAER and SIMON YUILL are among the 20 artists/writers/musicians short-listed for this year’s Creative Scotland Awards established in 2002. Up to ten of the selected artists will receive £30,000. Winners will be announced in March 2007.
www.creativescotland.org.uk

ABERDEEN GRANTS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

ABERDEEN now has a new visual arts award. With Scottish Arts Council support, Gray’s School of Art will offer grants of up to £1,000 to artists living and working in the city.
www.rgu.ac.uk/grays

JEFF NUTTALL

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

JEFF NUTTALL (1933 - 2004) artist, writer and performer – author of the influential, 1960s Bomb Culture – is the subject of a new website. Put together by friend and colleague Robert Bank, the site highlights his many talents. Nuttall’s final book Art And The Degradation Of Culture, was a comment on what he saw as the commodification of art.
www.jeff-nuttall.co.uk

WASPS ARTISTS' STUDIOS

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

WASPS ARTISTS’ STUDIOS have been offered a £3m pledge to move out of revenue funding status. The money will be invested in five new buildings, providing 140 new studio spaces for artists.
www.waspsstudios.org.uk

MADE AT DCA

08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MARTIN BOYCE, SIMON STARLING and LOUISE HOPKINS, are among many others to feature in Made at DCA, an exhibition at the London Print Studio. The exhibition reviews a wide selection of editioned work produced in the Dundee print studio, including the unique Cove Park Portfolio. 15 Feb - 5 Apr
www.londonprintstudio.org.uk

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI was one of six artists to win the Arts Council England's deciBel Award 2006. One of the UK’s largest prizes for contemporary artists, the controversial award is only open to Black British and Asian British artists and has a total fund of £250,000. Nashashibi, Bernd Behr, Harold Offeh, The Otolith Group, Hiraki Sawa, and Lynette Yiadom Boakye each received a ‘no-strings-attached’ prize of £30,000 to develop and research new areas of artistic work.

www.artscouncil.org.uk

RACHAEL FLYNN and LISA FINDLAY

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

RACHAEL FLYNN and LISA FINDLAY were awarded residencies at Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, on the merit of their degree shows. The graduates, from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee and Grays School of Art in Aberdeen respectively, are completing their one-month residency along with other international recipients including Scottish artists Juliana Capes (Edinburgh), Kate Davis (Glasgow), Jacqueline Donachie (Glasgow), Ganghut (Scotland/Netherlands/Australia) and Trevor Gordon (Dundee).
www.ssw.org.uk

WASPS TRUST

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

WASPS TRUST is to establish a new studio complex for Glasgow. Working in partnership with Wasps Artists' Studios, Glasgow Sculpture Studios and Glasgow City Council, the trust has been awarded £1.7 million by the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund towards its £6.5 million redevelopment of Glasgow's historic fish market, The Briggait. The centre will house 71 studios and a 1,200 square meter sculpture workshop. It is expected that the redevelopment will be completed in 2009.

www.scottisharts.org.uk

SMITH/STEWART and DOUGLAS GORDON

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

SMITH/STEWART and DOUGLAS GORDON are included in Into to me / Out of me, an exhibition curated by Klaus Biesenbach at PS1, New York. Featuring 131 international artists, including Vito Acconci, Wim Delvoye, Regina Jose Galindo and Santiago Sierra. The exhibition focuses on the theme of the body’s transgressive relationship to the outside world. Into to me / Out of me moves to Kunst-Werke Berlin in November 2005.

www.ps1.org

www.kw-berlin.de

LAURA AULDRIDGE

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

LAURA AULDRIDGE joins the committee of Transmission, Glasgow, as Iain Hetherinton and Lucy McEachan step down after their two-year tenure. Auldrige graduated this year from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art and now joins current committee members Michael Stumpf, Cara Tolmie and Michael Hill Johnston.

www.transmissiongallery.org

OLIVER GODOW

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

OLIVER GODOW embarks on his one-year residency at Durham Cathedral. Godow graduated from the MFA in Glasgow in 1997, working in Stuttgart, Berlin and Glasgow. The Durham residency has been in place since 1983, and has an alumni of established artists such as Jim Harold, who exhibited at Streetlevel, Glasgow in 2005 and the late Ian Breakwell.

TOBY WEBSTER

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

TOBY WEBSTER curated a group of Modern Institute artists for a show in Israel. Works by Martin Boyce, Richard Hughes, Jim Lambie, Andrew Kerr, Scott Myles, Tony Swain and Hayley Tomkins were exhibited as part of Life’s a Beach at Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (31 Aug – 13 Oct).

www.sommercontemporaryart.com

MARYANNE AMACHER

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

MARYANNE AMACHER appeared at this year’s edition of Instal at the Arches, Glasgow, 15 October. The American sound sculptor is known for her ground-breaking installation work in neurophonic sound – a technique that uses sound waves to make the listener’s ears into instruments themselves, creating the semblance of a third ear. ‘Do not be alarmed!’ said Amacher. ‘Your ears are not behaving strange or being damaged!’

www.instal.org.uk

JENNY SAVILLE

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

JENNY SAVILLE’s early self portrait, formerly bought by Friends of the Glasgow School of Art, has sold at Lyon and Turnbull auctioneers in Edinburgh for £30,000. The pencil drawing was originally bought for £700 in 1992 from Saville's degree show, and was recently sold to contribute to a series of student bursaries and grants. Works by Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas and Sherin Neshat also sold in Lyon and Turnbull's first contemporary art auction.

CHARLOTTE HODES

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

CHARLOTTE HODES was this years recipient of the £6000 Jerwood Drawing Prize. Organised by Wimbledon College of Art, each year the competition receives over 2000 entries annually. The winners were selected by Jason Brooks, Dr Yvonne Crossley and Paul Thomas, artist and co-founder of the awards scheme. Second prize was won by James McLellan and the two student prizes went to Zoe Anderson and James Wright. Coinciding with the annual prize is Drawing Breath, an exhibition featuring work by award winners from the past ten years, 2004-2005. It is not due to visit Scotland but can be seen in Durham.

10 March – 22 April

ALEC FINLAY

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

ALEC FINLAY's publications are on view at The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. This survey examines the work of the artist, poet and publisher over the last decade, and includes the Morning Star folios established in 1990, the Pocket Book series in 1999 and most recently the Small Press series in 2002. Finlay is artist, poet and publisher.

30 Sept - 30 Nov.

www.alecfinlay.com

www.spl.org.uk

KATE DAVIS

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

KATE DAVIS’ book Bread was celebrated with a launch featuring Torsten Lauschmann baking 20 loafs of bread in the garden of Tramway. This is Sorcha Dallas' third publication, following Kate Davis’ previous title Partners and Gary Rough's Take Me With You. Bread was also featured alongside Davis' solo statement installation at the Sorcha Dallas booth at Artforum Berlin fair.

www.sorchadallas.com

SCALO PUBLISHING

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

SCALO PUBLISHING filed for bankruptcy on 19 September. Founded in 1991 by Walter Keller and George Reinhart, Scalo first opened as a bookshop and independent publishing house in Zurich. It opened a Zurich gallery in 1997 and a New York gallery in 1998. Scalo's partner Edition Patrick Frey will not be effected by the bankruptcy.

www.editionpatrickfrey.com

LUCY MCKENZIE

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

LUCY MCKENZIE has sublet part of her exhibition space at Talbot Rice to fashion designer Beca Lipscombe. The show, titled Ten Years of Robotic Mayhem (including sublet), reflects upon commerce and tourism within Scotland, and features McKenzie’s illustration work for Edinburgh periodical The One O’Clock Gun and her record label Decemberism. Lipscombe is based in Edinburgh, while McKenzie has recently moved from Glasgow to Brussels. The show runs 21Oct-9 Dec.

www.trg.ed.ac.uk

NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND and TATE

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND and TATE have formed an ‘alliance’ to acquire the Anthony d’Offay collection. The institutions are receiving the major collection on a part gift, part sale basis. Funds of £10 million are being sought to finance the acquisition which will be shared between Edinburgh and London, as well being made available to other UK galleries and museums through loans and exhibitions. A graduate of Edinburgh University and recent honorary fellow of Edinburgh College of Art, d’Offay has ammassed a huge post-war collection over the past 40 years. The acquisition includes works by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Joseph Beuys, Bill Viola and Diane Arbus, with others yet to be made public. NGS and Tate say they will work as equal partners. A building in Leith is one possible location for housing part of the collection in Scotland.

www.natgalscot.ac.uk

MARK NEVILLE and PAVEL BUCHLER

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

MARK NEVILLE and PAVEL BUCHLER were commissioned by the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, to make a collaborative new film work. The 16mm work The Moth and the Lamp is included in BUCHLER'S solo show at Kunsthalle Bern entitled Absentmindedwindowgazing.

20th Oct - 3rd December

www.kunsthalle-bern.ch

YOUNG ARTISTS' BIENNIAL IN BUCHAREST

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

MIRANDA BLENNERHASSETT, MARCUS COATS, WILL DUKE, STUART MURRAY, OLIVIA PLENDER, LOUISA PRESTON, TOBIAS STERNBERG and GAVIN WADE represent Great Britain in Absent Without Leave, the second Young Artists’ Biennial held in Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Jenny Brownrigg the British line-up will join 51 other international artists in the month long exhibition.
12th of Oct - 16th Nov

www.metacult.ro

BEAGLES AND RAMSEY

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BEAGLES AND RAMSEY are to launch a catalogue of recent work at Tramway. Produced in collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art, the publication is released alongside new books by Henry Coombes, Keith Coventry as well as a catalogue of Tramway’s recent exhibition What Makes You and I Different. The launch takes place 16 Nov at 8pm

www.tramway.org

NICK EVANS

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

NICK EVANS solo show at Tate St Ives reviews work made on his recent residency. The fourth artist in residence since the gallery's opening in 1993, Evans exhibits new sculptural work inside the gallery and on its roof terrace. The exhibition runs alomgside works from the gallery's permanent collection and a Rodger Hilton retrospective.
7 Oct - 21 Jan 2007

www.tate.org.uk

RICHARD DEMARCO

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

RICHARD DEMARCO was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Causa from the Wroclaw Academy of Art, Poland, 18 October. A direct result of Demarco's involvement at the 2004 International Conference of Universities on the occasion of Poland joining the EU, the award coincides with an exhibition of the Demarco archive at the Wroclaw University gallery 17 October – 17 December 2006. Demarco commented “this is a symbol of the strengthening that must take place in the Polish-Scottish cultural dialogue that I have fostered.”

HOSPITALFIELD RESIDENCY

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Artists are once again being invited to apply for the Royal Scottish Academy’s three-month long residency programme at Hospitalfield House. Hospitalfield, on the outskirts of Arbroath, is open to committed early-career artists who are based in Scotland, are Scottish or have studied in Scotland. Closing date for applications: 1 Dec 2006.

More details on the RSA website: www.royalscottishacademy.org

THE ALISTAIR SALVESEN SCHOLARSHIP

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

THE ALISTAIR SALVESEN SCHOLARSHIP offers up to £10,000 for travel. The finalist will have a solo show at the RSA a year after winning the award. The award is granted to painters between 25-35 who have trained at one of the four main Scottish art colleges, worked at least three years outside of the college environment, and are resident in Scotland whilst also having had work exhibited by a recognised gallery in 2006.

Closing date for applications: January 2006.

More details on the RSA website: www.royalscottishacademy.org

EAST INTERNATIONAL 2007

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

EAST international 2007 the annual open call exhibition, held at Norwitch Gallery and Norwich School of Art and Design. Previous recipients of the exhibition have been: Sandy Guy, Kenny Hunter, Lucy McKenzie, Richard Hughes and Ruth Ewan. Selectors this year are Matthew Higgs and Marc Camille Chaimowicz.

Closing date for applications: 24 Nov 2006

www.norwichgallery.co.uk

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI and LUCY SKAER

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI and LUCY SKAER were commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol to create new film work together. Shot while the pair were on the Scottish Arts Council’s New York residency scheme, Nashashibi and Skaer filmed under cover of darkness for ‘Flash in the Metropolitan’, a film which documents the Near Eastern, African and Oceanic collections of the prodigious New York museum. The 16mm film was premiered by doggerfisher gallery at Frieze Art Fair in October. Artist Mark Wallinger told Art Newspaper it was the best thing he’d seen at the fair.

www.doggerfisher.com

KIRSTEN LLOYD and AMY SALES

17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

KIRSTEN LLOYD and AMY SALES have commissioned artists Aileen Campbell and Mark Melvin to create new art installations for Traverse Cubed³, the Traverse Theatre's month-long season of cross-disciplinary art. EmergeD curators Lloyd and Sales were asked to curate the visual art element of Traverse Cubed³, while John Harris curates the music programme. Campbell and Melvin's art installations will be accompanied by Martin Parker's sound installation Filament Copperwire.

29 Oct - 25 Nov

www.traverse.co.uk

PRIZES AND OPPORTUNITIES

23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

JERWOOD ARTANGEL OPEN This ambitious newb £1 million commissioning initiative invites artists of all disciplines to propose an exceptional project in relation to specific sites across the UK.
www.jerwoodartangelopen.org.uk

Book Fair at the CCA Open Day

23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

on Saturday 26th August. The Open Day offers tours of the building and exhibition talks, Intermedia Gallery at CCA, film screenings, and a book fair including AK Press, Analogue, Black Dog, Dot Dot Dot, One O'Clock Gun, Something Haptic as well as Map - we will have a stall there from 12 - 4pm so come and say hello. Visit the CCA website for more information.

A PUBLIC ONLINE SURVEY

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been launched on the Scottish Arts Council’s website to assess interest in the formation of a ‘Cultural Academy’. In 2005,
Patricia Ferguson, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, asked
the organisation to consider how Scotland might recognise and
celebrate its artistic achievements. Various proposals, ranging from an academy building to high-profile awards, were put forward.
However, the questionnaire has been criticised by the Scottish
Artists’ Union (SAU), which argues the survey is ‘heavily
weighted in favour of the proposition’ that the academy
should be established, and the online form ‘offers no possibility
for respondents to present an alternative view to what appears to
be a pre-determined course of action’. The SAU has written to
the Arts Council and Creative Services Scotland, warning that
the current plans risk being seen as elitest and ‘against the
egalitarian nature to which Scottish culture aspires’.

JENNY BROWNRIGG

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is one of five curators involved in this autumn’s international biennial of young artists, which runs from 14 October to 16 November in
Bucharest, Romania. The Young Artists’ Biennial: Absent Without
Leave will bring together 50 local and international artists to display
work. Organised by META Cultural Institute – a privately run
visual art organisation – and the Goethe-Institut Bukarest, the
event encompasses an exhibition, seminars and portfolio reviews.
Artists will be selected and displayed by Brownrigg, curator at
Dundee University Exhibition Department, Simona Nastac and
Oana Tanase (Romania), Irina Grabovan (Moldavia) and Branko
Franceschi (Croatia).
www.metacult.ro

UBU

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

gallery has sold its entirev inaugural show on its opening
night. Founded by Richard Hopkins, formerly of the Market
Gallery, Ubu is a new commercial space in Glasgow’s East End. On
22 May, Becky Beasley’s Decors Du Silence!, was snapped up by
Nick Giles, a former insurance broker and owner of Arran Art
Gallery. Giles acquired 12 photographic works for his private
collection, which will be reinstalled by Beasley for an Arran
showing in 2007. The two galleries have also created a programme of artists’ residencies as a joint venture on the island.
Oct 2006 – Mar 2007
www.ubuart.org.uk

MOMENTUM

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is the fourth Nordic festival of contemporary art. Featuring work by 28 artists, including Sue Tompkins, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer,
Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, the festival takes place in a converted beer production plant in Moss, Norway. The old brewery is beingdeveloped as an art and design
centre. 1 Sep – 15 Oct
www.momentum.no

TOTAL KUNST's

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

summer exhibition What Is Lady Cum? (8 – 29 July) focused on themes of female fantasy, masturbation and ejaculation, and featured work by Amy Whiten, Rosie McGurn and Lianne Bryce. Two days after it opened, the provocatively titled Edinburgh show received a complaint from a member of the public – the police responded, and warned the gallery that it may be in breach of obscenity laws, since the work was easily visible from the street. Total Kunst duly
covered the windows and placed warning signs at its entrance.
www.theforest.org.uk

NICOLA ATKINSON-DAVIDSON

22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

will be celebrating the short but colourful life of glamrocker Marc Bolan in East Kilbride. As part of her three-month residency, Glasgow-based Atkinson-Davidson is seeking T. Rex enthusiasts to join her in creating Bring the Glam to East Kilbride at East Kilbride Arts Centre. The project will include fan memorabilia, album artwork and – it is hoped – a chance to meet Bolan’s son Rolan. The timing of this public art event is crucial. The show runs 16 – 30 September, and Atkinson-Davidson notes, ‘As true fans will recognise, these dates are significant in the Bolan timeline – he was killed in a car crash on 16 September 1977 and was born on 30 September 1947’.
www.NadFly.com

JOHN LOWRIE MORRISON'S ARTS PRIZE

25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

A major new arts prize, funded by the artist John Lowrie Morrison (who paints under the name Jolomo), has been launched to promote the painting of the Scottish landscape. With a main prize of £20,000 and total prize money of up to £30,000, the Awards constitute one of the most important art prizes in the UK. Closing date for the 2007 Awards is 16 December 2006.

The Jolomo Lloyds TSB Scotland Awards (Lloyds TSB Scotland are providing sponsorship to assist with the running of the Awards) has a judging panel consisting of the artist Jolomo himself, arts journalist Susan Mansfield, gallery owner Geoff Kranenburg, Lloyds TSB Scotland Director Manus Fullerton and arts auctioneer Nick Curnow.

Further information about the Awards, full ENTRY CRITERIA and a downloadable APPLICATION FORM can be found on www.jolomofoundation.org

More details are available from Michael Wheatley: michael.wheatley@thejolomostudio.com

THE SCOTTISH ARTISTS' UNION

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has announced its free public liability insurance cover for all members, in response to artists increasingly working with local authorities, health and education boards. Cover of up to £5 million will be available and the scheme extends to artists holding workshops and open studio events.
www.sau.org.uk

LOUISA PRESTON

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been awarded funding for a month-long research trip to Tokyo. The artist and trainee gallery assistant at Dundee Contemporary Arts received £1500 from the Arts Trust of Scotland to develop video, photography and drawing in the Japanese capital. As a member of the artist-led GENERATOR projects, Preston also features in the Bucharest Biennial, alongside Miranda Blennerhassett and Romanian artist Anca Benera.

AN TUIREANN

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

on Skye is one of four international art galleries working together to create the JIPB Cube Gallery. The dedicated 80cm³ space at the Portree centre is identical to sister spaces in Jarnac (France), Ichinomiya (Japan) and Bøvlingbjerg (Norway).
The micro gallery was initially developed in the French and Japanese locations to raise awareness of rural locations as viable spaces for the display of contemporary art, and has gone on to expand over the last two years. The Portree offshoot opened in May with work by Lisa O’Brian, Ally Wallace and Chris Maginn. Applications for 2007/8 are invited.
www.antuireann.org.uk

RUARI GARDINER

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has unveiled a design for a purpose-built space for the Demarco Archive. Gardiner, a fourth-year architecture student at Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College, showed plans for a building in the Port Dundas area of Glasgow, at the college’s degree show in May. The creation of the Demarco Archive is a three-year Visual Research Centre project to digitise and make accessible Richard Demarco’s vast collection of 40 years of photographs, documents, film and audio recordings.

VARIANT MAGAZINE

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has celebrated its 20th birthday with the launch of a complete online archive. Every issue since its launch in 1986 is available to download from the independent publisher’s website, while subscribers will be treated to a CD-ROM of the archive.
www.variant.org.uk

SCOTT LAVERIE

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been invited to create a large new sculptural work for the Scottish Book Trust’s ‘hidden garden’ in Edinburgh. The invitation came from the artist-led initiative Emerged, which will participate in the Edinburgh Arts Festival (27 Jul – 3 Sep) and Annuale (28 Jul – 3 Sep). Laverie’s monumental artwork will also serve as a pavilion, housing sound and performance pieces curated by Kirsten Lloyd. Emerged has also lined up new residencies in association with Traverse Theatre for the autumn. John Harris will curate music for the project, with further curators to be announced. The residencies have been established to incorporate a wide range of artistic disciplines, where composers, writers and visual artists work together to create new work.
www.annuale.org
www.edinburghartfestival.org
www.emerged.net

SCOTT MYLES'

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

work has been included in Tate Modern’s latest permanent collection re-hang. The Glasgow-based artist’s screenprint ‘Double Exit’, 2004 – one of three works acquired by the Tate – is now on display in the gallery’s 'Idea and Object' area on Level 5. Meanwhile, Myles is continuing work on his artist’s book with Kunsthalle Zurich.
www.tate.org.uk

ALISON DUNLOP

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has become the first artist-in-residence at Limousine Bull in Aberdeen. The Glasgow-based artist was appointed to the new four-week scheme at the artists’ collective, developing and creating a site-specific installation for their project space at the start of July.

RUTH EWAN and KEITH FARQUHAR

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

are among 25 artists selected for the annual East International exhibition. Ewan is one of five to be commissioned to create new work for the show, selected by Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller and Dirk Snauwaert, founding artistic director of Wiels, the new contemporary art centre in Brussels. The non-thematic 16th East International exhibition can be seen at Norwich Gallery until 19 August.
www.eastinternational.net

SYLVIA GRACE BORDA

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is another artist drawing inspiration from East Kilbride. During a year-long project, she has rebuilt the town as an online new media portal. Replete with interactive maps, images and local newspaper clippings, 'EK Modern New Town' documents the urban history of East Kilbride as a modernist town.
www.eknewtown.com

DAVID SHRIGLEY and SIMON STARLING

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

feature in a new book project 'Home For Lost Ideas' a project developed by Catherine Griffiths and Daniel Rees. Shrigley, Starling, Sophie Calle, Elmgreen & Dragset and Marina Abramovic are among 100 artists in the book by Catherine Griffiths and Daniel Rees. The project was developed to collect impossible, forgotten or inadequate ideas that take the form of musings, dreams and propositions.

SIMON STARLING

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

unveiled his new work ‘Autoxylopyrocycloboros’ at Cove Park on 1 July. After acquiring Dignity, a boat recovered from the bottom of Loch Long, Starling has rendered it seaworthy and will set sail in August, taking a chainsaw with him in order to saw up the boat as fuel for its own on-board steam engine. The inevitable sinking will be filmed for posterity.

MARGARET ATWOOD

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is to take up residence at Cove Park in September. The highly-acclaimed Canadian novelist was recently awarded the Muriel Spark International Fellowship, and will be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August.

BACK GARDEN BIENNALE

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

held its inaugural launch in the relaxed environs of artist Sara Sinclair’s Edinburgh back green on 24 June.
The show featured work by artists including Beagles and Ramsay, Rabiya Choudhry and Dan Williams; and a number of artists were invited to show in ‘Shed Biennale Shed’. The event was broadcast live by Martin Vincent.
Starter kits on how to create your own Back Garden Biennale included some tips from Benjamin Newell: ‘This artist starter kit contains everything you need to grow your own artist from seed. In May to early June, when risk of all critical backlash has gone, harden off the artists by leaving them outdoors during the day with only a pencil for comfort,’ he wrote, adding: ‘Remove dead artists regularly to prolong artistry.’

ANNIE LENNOX and ANTHONY D'OFFAY

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

were awarded honorary fellowships by Edinburgh College of Art, during the graduation ceremony at McEwan Hall on 6 July. Art patron d’Offay was recognised for his contribution to the college, in particular his involvement in the Jannis Kounellis exhibition at ECA in 2005, while Lennox was honoured as both as a visual pop culture icon and stronge female role-model.

CORRECTION

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

In our review of 'The Armory Show' in 'Map' 6, a video work by David Sherry was mistakenly attributed to Charlie Hammond. We apologise to the artists and Transmission Gallery.

LYNN PAINTER-STAINER'S PRIZE

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is calling for entries to its second annual painting competition worth £22,500. Artists are invited to submit up to two original, non-sculptural works completed within the last two years. Entries should be handed in to the FBA, 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BQ on the 3rd or 4th of September, 10am – 5pm. The entry fee is £15.
www.painter-stainers.org

THE JD FERGUSSON ARTS AWARDS

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

are seeking exhibition proposals. The winner will receive £2,500 and be offered a solo show in 2007 at the Fergusson Gallery, Perth. Artists working in all media and disciplines may apply. Applicants must be Scottish or have lived in Scotland for several years and must not be in full-time education or have won a major award. The closing date is 31 October 2006.

Details from Maria Devaney, 01738 632488/441944.

BIRNAM INSTITUE

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is looking for artists to exhibit during 2007/08. The Perthshire space invites artists to submit portfolios or images for consideration.

Details available from arts@birnaminstitute.com

SCOTTISH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP

12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has announced the artists due to take part in their summer residency programme. The one month long residences include Juliana Capes (Edinburgh), Kate Davis (Glasgow), Jacqueline Donachie (Glasgow), FASTWURMS (Canada), Lisa Findlay (Aberdeen), Rachel Flynn (Dundee), Ganghut (Scotland/Netherlands/Australia), Trevor Gordon (Dundee), Hana Sakuma (London), Claire Todd (Netherlands) and Bedwyr Williams (Wales). Utilising the facilities provided by SSW, the artists will have time and support to explore new ideas, techniques and processes within the remote, rural environment of North East Scotland.

For more information please visit SSW’s new website which features gallery pages and online journals from current resident artists. www.ssw.org.uk

GET A FUCKING JOB

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been causing a stir in Aberdeen. The book subtitled ‘The Truth About Begging’ is the most recent publication from New Social Art School’s Eva Merz and Bob Steadman, and compiles interviews with Aberdeen’s street beggars. Ottakers's has refused to stock the publication on the grounds that it's title might cause offence to some people, so buy it from Peacock, Fopp or Waterstones instead.

FREE ASSOCIATION

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is the new publication edited by Street Level Photoworks’ Malcolm Dixon. Printed to coincide with the opening of Glasgow International, Free Association aims to uncover emerging critical practice in Scottish contemporary art, and intends to publish infrequently both in print and on the web. The project is supported by Gi and Arts Development at Glasgow City Council, and produced with the collaboration of artists and writers.
www.freeassociation.info

SUSAN COLLINS'

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

work at Threshold, Perth has been selected for three international exhibitions: Toronto, London and Hobart, Tasmania. ‘Glenlandia’ was commissioned by Threshold as a pixel-by-pixel landscape of a fictitious place, broadcast both in the gallery and over the internet for 6 months. Collins’ digital artwork is part surveillance, part landscape painting, and tours Framed, 23 – 25 Mar at Slade Centre for Electronic Media in London, Timeless, 24 Mar – 8 May at York Quay Art Centre in Toronto, and Remote, 2 – 21 Jun at the University of Tasmania’s Plimsoll Gallery in Hobart.

CALUM STIRLING

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

had his North American debut at TPW Gallery in Toronto as part of a co-presented show between New Media Scotland, Images Festival and Toronto Photography Workshop (Apr 6-29). The Glasgow-based artist will be installing two of his sound sculptures in his exhibition One Revolution Per Minute, which runs as part of the city-wide Images Festival.

ALLISON WATT

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been selected for the lengthy two-year artist-residence-scheme at London’s National Gallery. The seventh Associate Artist, the Greenock-born artist will now embark on her brief of making work related to the National Gallery’s own collection to be exhibted in the Sunley Room, Spring 2008, while she completes her current Scottish Arts Council project, 'Dark Light'.

JOYCE LAING

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

opens a new gallery at 27 High Street, Pittenweem, Fife. Over 500 pieces from the Scottish collection of Art Extraordinary (Outsider Art),
amassed by Laing while working as an art therapist for 32 years, are finally collected together here. Some works date back to the mid- 1800s, but the gallery will also feature invited contemporary artists. The gallery opens 6 May and will be open until its seasonal closure at the end of October 2006. Curator Ann Copland or Joyce Laing can be contacted on 01333 311 425.

KARLA BLACK

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

was the first artist to open for Mary Mary Gallery’s new home. Relocating out of the Alexandra Park Street flat, to Suite 2/1 in 6 Dixon Street Glasgow the new space opened 14 April, where the Karla Black continues to show until 19 May. Nantes-based artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar was also invited by Mary Mary to fill 148 Bell Street as part of the Glasgow International off-site project.

EVE THOMPSON

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been awarded the JD Fergusson Arts Award. The £2,000 travel bursary was awarded to the Edinburgh-based artist 6 Mar at the Fergusson Gallery, Perth. The painter intends to use the money to research a new body of work exploring the orientation of place, paint and text in Italy.

RODERICK BUCHANAN

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

will be host, collaborator and player once more in the Artcup kick off 22 June in Huntly, culminating with a show-down 25 June. Buchanan will arrive in Huntly as Deveron Arts' artist in residence, where he, Artcup curator Nuno Sacramento and Danish artist Thomas Zeest will be responsible for picking the teams. Huntly FC will be supporting this year's venture, following previous international matches in Lisbon, Helsinki and Belgrade. ‘This is not a project about art and football - it is art and football,’ says Captain Buchanan.

COLLECTIVE GALLERY

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

in Edinburgh has replaced the Project Room with new video space Black Cube. Inagurating the space with films by Jimmy Roberts, 22 April – 3 June, the Collective has lined up an international showcase for the next year with help from curators Emily Pethick, Polly Staple, Deborah Smith, Lesley Young and Beatrix Ruff. Originally established in 1995 as an experimental arts space for Scottish artists, the Project Room closed with a show by artist Val Norris.

SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL and SCOTTISH SCREEN

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

are joining forces for the Artists’ Film and Video Funding initiative. The scheme is offering £5,000 to £15,000 to support innovative and experimental work by visual artists using film and video. Application form are available from www.scottisharts.org.uk and more from help.desk@scottisharts.org.uk. Deadline is 3 July.

BECKY BEASLEY

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is hosting a dinner party to celebrate the opening of ‘Decors du Silence!’, her first British solo show and the inaugural exhibition to Ubu Gallery in Glasgow’s East end. The photographer, whose works relate to the domestic space of the former tenement in which Ubu is located, will invite six guests to dinner prior to the opening, with a further six being invited randomly through the gallery mail-out.
www.beckybeasley.com

ERICA EYRES, MICK PETER and BECKY BEASLEY

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

were among the many artists selling work at Artfutures, the alternative to the Glasgow Art Fair, held on 8 - 9 April. The new event, organised by Market Gallery’s Richard Hopkins, ran for two days in George Square’s Millenium Hotel, featuring nearly 200 works by contemporary artists currently working in Scotland. It is hoped that this free event will act as complentary counterbalance to the art fair proper.

BILL THOMPSON

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

inflamed public opinion when he set fire to a harpsichord on an Aberdeen beach. The second part of his performance piece was created with the assistance of Peacock Visual Arts on 11 March. The night before, the sound artist used the harpsichord, along with live electronics to explore some of the previously unexploited sounds that lay dormant in the instrument. After spending two days trying to free the instrument from its past traditions, he staged the final bonfire as the performance send-off.

JIM LAMBIE

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

vinyl, concrete and electric-lit work ‘Dubtronic’ was up for sale at the Armory Fair in New York. Sold by the New Museum of Contemporary Art to drum up funds, the work was purchased by Wrong Gallery curator Lisa Ivorian Gray to the tune of $7,500. The Turner nominee will be making his second Japanese outing at Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo with a solo show P. I. L., 12 Apr – 13 May.

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI, GARY ROUGH

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Nathan Coley, Douglas Gordon, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jim Lambie and Lucy Skaer have been selected by curators Charles Asprey and Kay Pallister to show at Bethlehem Peace Centre’s international exhibition As if by Magic, 23 May – 31 July. Joining 18 other international names, including Wolfgang Tillmans and Damien Hirst.However, neither the artisits or their work will visit the site. Instead, instructions for new work will be sent and work assembled by friends of the exhibition, including staff, curators and local artists. Asprey co-founded ArtSchool Palestine while Pallister co-curated Zenomap, Scotland's first official presentation at the 50th Venice Biennale.
www.artschoolpalestine.com

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been awarded the fifth Glenfiddich residency this summer. The film-maker will spend four months in the distillary’s rural Dufftown studios. She will be joined there by South African hip hop artist Mustafa Maluka and Annie Pootoogookfrom Cape Dorset, Nanavut.
The scheme has already played host to past residents, Kenny Hunter, Alison Watt and Ross Sinclair.

CLAUDIA ZEISKE

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

and Glennfiddich have been nominated for the British Council Arts and Business International Award for their collaborative work on the Artists at Glennfiddich programme. The much-praised residency annually brings together 8 international artists to work at the distillery. Zeiske and Glenfiddich were the only Scottish entry shortlisted for the prestigious award which recognises art/business partnerships successfully promoting international understanding through the arts.

ELLSWORTH KELLY

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is one of a clutch of sculptors whose work will feature in Seattle’s new $85 million sculpture park, which will be erected downtown on the city’s waterfront. Combining a mix of works by Kelly, as well as Richard Serra and Alexander Calder, alongside new commissions from Louise Bourgeois and Mark Dion, the park will open to the public this July. Represented by Edinburgh’s Ingleby Gallery, 83-year-old Kelly is also finishing his triple run of shows in the UK, where the Ingleby showed his prints from the last 30 years, 17 Mar - 22 Apr. Tate St Ives show lithographs and paintings until 7 May, while Serpentine present 25 paintings until 21 May.

LUCY SKAER

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

is showing work in Art Basel’s Statements. The doggerfisher artist is one of 22 selected to present a solo show as part of the Swiss art fair’s series. The solo section has expanded from last year's 17 spaces, which featured Katy Dove and Venice Biennale duo Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan.

ALEX FROST, ALAN MICHAEL and ALEX POLLARD

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

are showing work with Sorcha Dallas at Art Brussels’ latest initiative, First Call, 20 - 24 April 2006. This art zone appeared at the contemporary art fair last year and is returning as a space dedicated to international emerging artists. Only 14 galleries have been selected. Meanwhile the Sorcha Dallas is swapping exhibitions with Anke Kempkes of New York gallery Broadway 1602. Kempkes has curated the next show in the Scottish space, All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go, 20 May – 24 June, while Sorcha Dallas mounts If Not Now at the New York venue in late June , which includes artists Alex Frost, Sophie Macpherson, Alex Pollard, Henry Coombes, Gary Rough and Clare Stephenson in late June.

DAVID SHRIGLEY

04 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

has been working both sides of the Atlantic, as well as moving studio at home in Glasgow. He joined 16 other artists, including Peter Finnemore, Erwin Wurm and Vik Muniz, for the Humor Me exhibition at Kansas City Art Institute, 28 Jan - 18 Mar. Later this year, the illustrator shows at Dundee Contemporary Arts and releases a DVD collaboration with Chris Shephard ‘Who I Am and What I Want’ on Slinky Pictures. This features scenes deleted and banned from early TV showings.
www.davidshrigley.com

Duncan of Jordanstone

03 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Tate Triennial runs until 14 May in Tate Britain. Unusually, the line-up of 27 artists includes seven graduates and teachers from a single institution, Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College. Given that there are around 60 art schools in the UK, it is naturally something of a rarity for such a large number of artists from the same college to be included in so prestigious an exhibition. The artists are Scott Myles, Luke Fowler, Lucy McKenzie, Alan Michael, Christopher Orr, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Lucy MacKenzie is showing work influenced by cartoon art exploring the blurred line separating social spaces for dining and those for experiencing the rarified world of contemporary art. Luke Fowler continues his countercultural involvement using found footage, interviews and archival materials to explore the work of English composer Cornelius Cardew whose avant-garde orchestra celebrates the view that ‘anyone can play’.
Tate Britain 1 Mar-14 May
www.tate.org.uk/britain

Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Maragrita Vazquez Ponte

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BECK'S FUTURES

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Beck’s Futures has included two Modern Institute artists, Sue Tompkins and Richard Hughes, on its 2006 shortlist. They join Olivia Plender (who has collaborated with Edinburgh organisation Cell 77) among 13 artists nominated for the annual contemporary art prize. Work by the artists, all under 35 years of age and working in the UK, will appear in a touring exhibition which opens in Glasgow on 8 April. This year’s judges are Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gillian Wearing, Cornelia Parker, Martin Creed and Yinka Shonibare. The public are also invited to vote. The winner, who receives £20,000, will be announced on 2 May.
www.becksfutures.co.uk

Sue Tompkins

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Sue Tompkins has also been selected for the Open Frequency an online platform for emerging British artists.

http://www.axisartists.org.uk

Richard Hughes

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Richard Hughes is one of the 75 international artists to be included in the Turin Triennale. Hughes, represented by the Modern Institute, Glasgow, has three installation pieces at the new Italian festival, which is spread out over three spaces. Also exhibiting are Ryan Gander and Takashi Murakami. Until 19 Mar
www.torinotriennale.it

The Tate

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Tate is hosting its own triennial of new British art. German curator Beatrix Ruf has included Scottish artists Peter Doig, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Luke Fowler, Douglas Gordon and Lucy McKenzie in her selection. Tate Britain 1 Mar – 14 May.
www.tate.org.uk

Peter Doig

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Peter Doig has been listed for the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night in New York. The Edinburgh-born artist’s paintings were selected by the curators, Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne, for their sense of magical realism. Doig’s work will be shown alongside over 100 international artists such as Rodney Graham, Richard Serra and Jim O’Rourke at the prestigious festival, this year inspired by the English title of François Truffaut’s 1973 film, La Nuit Américaine. 2 Mar – 28 May.
www.whitney.org

Something Haptic

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Something Haptic is taking the long-haul to Melbourne, Australia for the Next Wave festival. The artists’ collective will show its ‘Mind Games’ project in the Conical Gallery as part of the festival in Mar 2006. The project, which is centred around the theme of empire, takes the Melbourne’s 2006 Commonwealth Games as its inspiration.
www.nextwave.org.au

Heart Fine Art

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Heart Fine Art has opened a new exhibition space in Waterloo Place, Edinburgh. A purveyor of historic and contemporary artists’ books and prints, it showcases vintage avant-garde material and exhibitions by established international artists. It is currently showing a selection form its holdings of fluxus artworks and ephemera.
www.heartfineart.com

Tobias Sternberg

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Tobias Sternberg is this year’s artist-in-residence for Edinburgh’s Embassy Gallery. The Stockholm-born artist graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2005. Sternberg began his new residency in Nov 2005 with The Gallery is Temporarily Open due to Unnecessary Refurbishment– an exhibition of permanent alterations to the gallery space. ‘I will renovate the gallery according to your needs but not according to your wishes’ Sternberg stated.
www.tobiassternberg.com

Glasgow International

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Glasgow International is finalizing its 2006 programme. Embracing local and international talent, the contemporary visual arts festival, now in its second year, has already recruited Ross Sinclair for CCA, Chloe Piene, Fikrit Atay and Stephen Sutcliffe for Tramway, with more to be confirmed for the city-wide initiative. 19 Apr- 1 May
www.glasgowinternational.org

Mary Mary

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Mary Mary, the Glasgow gallery set up by Sara Barker, Hannah Robinson and Harriet Tritton in Mar 2004 had its last exhibition (four of Meiro Koizumi’s films) in the Alexandra Park Street venue in Dec 2005. Robinson has set her sights on a March 2006 relaunch in a new space, which will act as a representing gallery, and now involve the combined talents of Robinson, Nick Evans and Karla Black.
www.marymarygallery.co.uk

Janice McNab

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Janice McNab invited fellow artists Hanneline Visnes and Renato Galante to Vienna to show work as part of ‘Hotspots’, Sammlung Essl’s group show. McNab acted as co-curator, framing Visnes and Galente as part of an Amsterdam ‘scene’ usually inaccessible or unknown to museum visitors. The show ran as part of the Emerging Artists series as Sammlung Essl from 11 Nov 2005 – 29 Jan 2006.
www.sammlung-essl.at

Saul Robertson

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Saul Robertson won second place in the BP Portrait Awards 2005, and was awarded £6000 for his self-portrait ‘The Universe’. The Glasgow-based artist, a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, will show his work alongside first prize-winner Dean Marsh at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Until 12 Mar.

Cabin Exchange

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Cabin Exchange is launching its annual week-long art event with a 24 Feb deadline for proposals. Applicants are invited to conceive an art installation inside its 10ft by 8ft storage containers, to be sited on the streets of Glasgow. Collaborating with Glasgow School of Art, 'Cabin Exchange 2020' explores three areas of the city and will hit the streets 17 – 23 Apr.
www.cabinexchange.com

Jacqueline Donachie

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Jacqueline Donachie won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award on 10 Nov for her installations, sculpture and public works. The Glasgow-based artist changed a vacant site into a balloon factory for the ‘House of Fun’ in 2001. She is currently researching mytonic dystrophy, a genetic disorder, as part of the Sciart award she received in 2003. Donachie and the other winners (Michael Landy, Factotum, Clio Barnard) will now receive £30,000 each spread over a three-year period.
www.phf.org.uk

Transitstation

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Transitstation transports artists and their work from earlier transitstation events in London and Berlin to Edinburgh. 54 artists from across Europe collaborate in a 24-hour non-stop visual event featuring video, live art, installations, fashion, electronica, classical music, poetry, dance and physical theatre. Organised by Aaron McClosky, Rosemary Strang, Dagmar Glausnitzer- Smith (artistic director) and Charles Ryder (lead curator) it takes place on 4 - 5 Feb at the Ocean Terminal shopping mall in Leith.
www.transitstation.de

CCA

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

CCA has also announced a new residency exchange programme with Quebec’s Conseil des Arts et des Lettres (CALQ). The annual exchange of a Scottish and Quebecois artist focuses on contemporary sound design, where selected residents will work with new technologies to form music, sound installation or audio art from April – June. The Scottish candidate will be given $7,500 and accommodation. The CCA intends to announce the successful recipient in March 2006.

Corn Exchange Gallery

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Corn Exchange Gallery opened in Edinburgh on 3 Feb. Run by Caroline Alexander, the gallery is housed within the original 1863 Corn Exchange building in Leith. Its inaugural exhibition is a solo show featuring the work of London-based photographer Florencia Durante3 Feb – 16 Mar
www.cornexchangegallery.com

Kill Your Timid Notion

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Kill Your Timid Notion returns to Dundee Contemporary Arts for its third annual programme of live experimental music, performance, visual art and film. The three-day festival runs 17 – 19 Feb and features Justine Montford’s interactive sound workshops and Derek Lodge’s specially constructed social space.
www.killyourtimidnotion.org

Anna-Lisa Drew

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Anna-Lisa Drew used Edinburgh’s central Mosque as the centre for a new photography workshop for the Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace, 6 Dec 2005 – 1 Feb 2006. Local women used photography to explore their day to day lives and spiritual beliefs. The outcome is exhibited at Bristo Square Chaplaincy 10 Feb – 10 Mar.
www.eial.org/mesp

Alexander Heatherington

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Alexander Heatherington has been working on residency over recent months at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop. Work by the first Map Commission artist can be seen on the updated map website.

Creative Scotland Awards

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Creative Scotland Awards has announced its shortlist of 22 artists. Up to ten will receive bursaries of £30,000 at the Glasgow ceremony in March. Visual artists on the list include Toby Paterson, who hopes to use the money to fund ‘a new body of work developed from an architectually focussed series of journeys through Eastern Europe.’ Graham Fagan is also nominated, while the illustrious list of previous beneficiaries includes Steven Campbell and Valerie Gillies.
www.creativescotland.org

Body Parts

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Body Parts is back for its second year. Edinburgh’s three-day performance art festival created a furore last year when Beagles and Ramsay announced plans to fry and eat black puddings that he had made from their own blood, but were banned from the act. The programme for this year’s festival- a collaboration between the RSA and the SSA – features artists from Norway, Belgium and the UK, including the FOUND group, Scot Bronwyn Platten and Gillian Taylor, who plans to investigate violence as entertainment and as a reality. 17-19 Feb.

The National Review of Live Art

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The National Review of Live Art 2006 returns for an ambitious five-day programme as part of the annual New Moves international festival. The NRLA began as a one-day event called Performance Platform,held at Nottingham's Midland Group Arts Centre, in 1976. Now based in Glasgow, it has become one of Europe’s most important showcases for experimental performance and installation. This year’s programme includes established artists such as Ron Athey, Franko B alongside a number of emerging women artists from Asia. Tramway 8 – 12 Feb
www.newmoves.co.uk

The Modern Institute and Transmission

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Modern Institute and Transmission galleries display work at The Armory Show, New York’s international fair of new art. This eighth annual exhibition features 148 international galleries. Recent work by Luke Fowler, Scott Myles and Beck’s Futures shortlisted Sue Tompkins will be conspicious among the Modern Institute’s representatives. The Armory Show runs 10-13 Mar.
www.thearmoryshow.com

Julie Brook

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Julie Brook’s latest visual arts and performance project, ‘An Dealbh Mor’, recruits the talent of pupils at Sleat Primary School, Skye. Having already held a successful interim exhibition of drawings and paintings created as part of the project at An Tuireann, the collaborators are working with a choreographer, composer and visual artist to create a performance, launched at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Gaelic College on 2 March.

Juliette Losq

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Juliette Losq has been awarded the first prize in the 2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize, for her work ‘Lights Out For the Territory’. The UK’s only annual open exhibition for drawing opened at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Gallery on 24 Jan, and will run until 18 Feb, and includes 78 drawings by over 70 artists.
www.wimbledon.ac.uk/jerwood/

Mark Neville

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Mark Neville’s generously-sized monograph ‘Port Glasgow’ was published recently, but none of the 8,000 copies were made available for sale. In an effort to challenge a perceived exploitation in ‘coffee-table’ books, the artist chose instead to have his photographic album distributed by the Local Boys Football Club to the community it documents. According to Neville, the book was met with “a mixture between delight and a little bit of apprehension,”. Bizarrely, however, it also inadvertently became the victim of sectarian aggression, when a small group of Protestants held a book burning, angered that images related to Catholicism marginally outnumbered specifically Protestant subjects. An exhibition documenting Neville’s project and the reactions it stirred up will be held at Modern Art Oxford. 7 Mar-30 Apr
Contact the artist on: markinportglasgow@hotmail.com

Craig Mulholland

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Craig Mulholland, represented by Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, flies to Los Angeles to take part in a group show at the Marc Selwyn Gallery. Curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, the show also features work by Garder Eide Einesson and Sture Johannessen. 27 Jan – 3 Mar
www.marcselwynfineart.com

Nathan Coley

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Nathan Coley unveiled a new work for Haunch of Venison Gallery at Arte Fiera 2006, Bologna in January. The art fair also featured the first stall given to an art critic – writer Achille Bonito Oliva built up a project over three days and auctioned it off as an installation at the fair finale.

Sophie MacPherson

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Sophie MacPherson plans to create a new, site specific work in the Vilma Gold Project Space, a Berlin outpost of the London gallery. The work will be similar to the grey façade-like structure she exhibited in Sorcha Dallas last Spring. ‘The Glass Bead Game’ is a group show, curated by Matthew Williams. 17 Mar – 21 Apr.

Sean Scully

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Sean Scully is to exhibit his Wall of Light paintings at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas (12 Feb – 28 May) and the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio (24 Jun – 3 Sep). Scully, who is represented by Edinburgh’s Ingleby Gallery, shows oils, pastels and watercolours inspired by the play of light on the ancient ruins of Mexico. He began the series in 1983, and this is the first US exhibition to show them.

Valerie Gillies and Rebecca Marr

02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Valerie Gillies and Rebecca Marr will be exhibiting work taken from their journey across the country at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews. The two women used photography and poetry to record their expedition encounters with the wild men and tame animals of Scotland. 15 Mar – 3 Apr.

KEITH FARQUHAR

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Keith Farquhar has been busy preparing for his transatlantic openings. The former Edinburgh College of Art and Goldsmiths graduate has been working in New York. Having opened with his first American solo show at the city's Nyehaus Gallery, Farquhar is on his way home to organise his joint November exhibition at Edinburgh's Inverleith House with fellow artist Mark Leckie. www.keithfarquhar.co.uk

BEAGLES & RAMSAY

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Beagles & Ramsay joined the bill with numerous internationally acclaimed artists, including Joseph Beuys, Vito Aconcci and Bruce Nauman, for Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst's show When Humour Becomes Painful during October. The ambitious Zurich exhibition explores how nonsense and intellect work in the mechanisms of humour and includes Glasgow-based duo's video works until 30th October.
www.migrosmuseum.ch

HENRI CHOPIN

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Henri Chopin, the French avant-garde concrete poet and performance artist, gave his first ever performance in Scotland, headlining Glasgow's Instal Music Festival in October, performing onstage at the Arches. The 83-year-old artist is a pioneer of experimental music and sound recordings, founding audio-visual magazines Cinquième Saison and OU in the mid-20th century, and working collaboratively with the likes of Fluxus, Lettrisme and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
www.instal.org.uk

MARK DION

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Mark Dion offered curious visitors a sneak preview of the Bear Broch, his newly built bear enclosure at Camperdown Wildlife Centre in Dundee. In conjunction with Dundee Contemporary Arts, the American artist designed a custom-built enclosure in the same style as ancient Scottish broch dwellings - the only building type likely to have existed when bears last roamed the country. Camperdown's two European Brown Bears, Comet and Star will be installed in their new home later this month.

JOHNNY MILROY

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Johnny Milroy is one third of BOW Social Club. Setting up shop at London's Bow Festival, Milroy performed a Scottish socialist monologue alongside his colleagues, Andro and Yu-Chen with their Russian Icon Stall and Taiwanese Vegetarian Food shop. The September Basement Art Project attempted to build a social space for the local community and promote a happy socialist lifestyle. www.basementartproject.com

ROSS SINCLAIR

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Ross Sinclair will be shedding some light on his most recent work for Glasgow's Radiance Festival on 25-27 November. Creating neon light installations to illuminate the streets of Merchant City and ignite civic pride, the locally-based artist is just one of several visual artists and lighting designers gathered from around the globe and brought together by curator Katrina Brown of Dundee Contemporary Arts. David Batchelor, Fiona Banner, Xavier Veilhan and Mark Handforth join the programme, their installations complemented by film and musical elements.
www.radianceglasgow.com

Parallel 56

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Glasgow-based web agency Parallel 56 is launching a new gallery supporting young Scottish artists. Four formal exhibitions will be staged each year opening with a mixed-media show by four recent graduates, Kathryn Henderson, Vicky Gray, Gemma Petrie and Dawn Hannah, from colleges of art in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

ALEC FINLAY

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Alec Finlay was recently commissioned to create a word map of the Newcastle Metro journey in collaboration with The Guardian's crossword setter Sandy Balfour and local historian Brian Wilkes. The writer and artist, currently in residence at Baltic in Gateshead, has created a piece that takes the form of a cryptic crossword, each clue and answer relating to a station, stop or place along the route. www.thepublic.com

JOHN LEIGHTON

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

John Leighton has been appointed the National Galleries' new Director-General. A graduate in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art, the distinguished art historian leaves his post as Director of Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum. He commences his Scottish posting in March 2006.

KENNY HUNTER

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Kenny Hunter is preparing for a busy year ahead. Following his November show at the Art Futures fair, London, Hunter is discussing exhibiting at Talbot Rice, Edinburgh, in the Divided Self - a group show showcasing a series of self-portraits by Scottish artists. The Glasgow fine art graduate will also be working on two public art projects, one to develop an installation marking the coal mining industry in Barnsley and the other at Great Ormond Street Childrens' Hospital, London as well as two major shows at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and CCA, Glasgow.

ANN GALLAGHER

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Ann Gallagher is the Tate's new Head Curator of British Art from 1900 from September. Previously the Senior Curator in Visual Arts for the British Council, Gallagher has been closely involved with Venice Biennale exhibitions, Rachel Whiteread's South America show and David Sylvester's Francis Bacon retrospective.

AN LANNTAIR

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

An Lanntair, the new centre for arts in the Outer Hebrides has opened its doors with its inaugural exhibition Lobht nan Seòl (The Sail Loft). Showcasing artists Carina Fihn, Moira Maclean, Mikko Paakola and Ian Stephen, the Gaelic culture centre is one of the biggest arts developments in the Highlands. Housing a gallery space, a theatre and cinema auditorium, education facilities, bar and restaurant, the iconic new building stands at the heart of Stornaway. www.lanntair.com

SUE AND HAYLEY TOMPKINS

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Sue and Hayley Tompkins were invited to create new work for the re-launch of the experimental non-profit programme Westlondonprojects with a new exhibition, In the Zone of Your Eyes. The twins, represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow, rarely work together. This collaborative show includes paintings, works on paper, photographs and performance art by both. Housed in the intimate setting of the converted Victorian building in Fulham, south-west London, the Tompkins' show continues until 12 November.

JIM LAMBIE AND HENRIK HAKANSSON

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Jim Lambie and Henrik Hakansson, both from the Modern Institute, have been selected for this year's Lyon Biennale 2005. The show is now in its fourth year.

TRAMWAY

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Tramway, Glasgow hosts the work of Kader Attia, Rob Kennedy, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer and Fabien Verschaere this autumn. The exhibition, 'In Between Times' runs in 'real time' with the Lyon Biennale, along with Frankfurt's Portikus, Milan's PAC, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the CAC in Vilnius and Zurich's Migros Museum, Sep 14 - Dec 31

LORRAINE WILSON

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Lorraine Wilson, the curator of Glasgow's Tramway, introduced the first series of SPIN events to Glasgow, holding a debate with John Calcutt for Barbara Kruger's Twelve exhibition. First introduced in Edinburgh, SPIN was a successful contemporary arts programme of previews, events, talks and trips set up for its public membership. Now moving west, it will launch in the new year, but before that it has one more free event on 16 November. To find out more, e-mail spin-glasgow@cls.glasgow.gov.uk

ENSO

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

ENSO is leading the 'Collab' project, pairing five sets of artists and challenging them to create new work in six weeks. The Galway-based group who specialise in video and live art events will give artists the resources and facilities at the Nun's Island Art Centre in the final week of the collaborative process. Those already selected to take part in the experimental exchange include Enso's own Andrea Fitzpatrick and Aurora's Ruth Beale.

Polly Staple

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Polly Staple, a curator and producer with Frieze Art Fair, is one of four judges on the panel of the 14th New Work Scotland Programme. The four finalists , Alberta Whittle, Neil Clements, Will Duke and Alexander Stalmann, have been commissioned to produce new work for the Collective Gallery, as part of the NWSP initiative supporting emerging artists. Whittle and Clements work will show at the gallery unitl 12 November while Stalmann and Duke provide the next installment 19 November - 17 December.
www.collectivegallery.net

Frieze Art Fair

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Frieze Art Fair has included three Scottish galleries in its list of over 150 from around the world. Featured at Frieze this year are Alex Pollard, Kate Davis, Alex Frost, Sophie MacPherson and Gary Rough, all represented by Sorcha Dallas. Other key artists exhibiting are Jim Lambie, Simon Starling and Victoria Morton from the Modern Institute, while doggerfisher, Edinburgh is taking new work by Nathan Coley and Moyna Flannigan.

Lucy Skaer

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Lucy Skaer has been awarded the much-coveted New York residency from the Scottish Arts Council. For nine months Skaer will have use of a rent-free studio apartment.

Sorch Dallas and Transmission

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Sorcha Dallas and Transmission, both Glasgow-based, are attending the third NADA Art Fair in Miami. The New Art Dealers Alliance, in the lavish Ice Palace Film Studios (1 - 4 Dec), was conceived in 2002 in an attempt to foster stronger community arts through collaborative, non-adversarial approaches to exhibiting and dealing art. The non-profit organisation will host the work of 80 galleries from around the world, in addition to artists' projects, publications and events.

Neil Mullholland and Alex Pollard

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Neil Mullholland and Alex Pollard aka Tayto et Tayto are facing off the Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art in their latest exhibition. While the institutions focus on the critical debate over the impact of Richard Demarco's 1970 Strategy Get Arts in their city-wide Palermo Restore project , Tayto et Tayto's Embassy show responds to what they see as unimaginative strategic cultural planning and the misrepresentation of Demarco's project-based interventionism. The Embassy exhibition Strategy Art Getts exhibited its gettery 30 Sep - 30 Oct

Shona Illingworth

02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT