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Drawing Beyond Human at the Drawing Research Forum
No full textThe Research Forum provides access to recent research examining critical issues around contemporary drawing. It features presentations and a plenary discussion with artists examining diverse themes, and utilising and developing current discourse around contemporary drawing. The Forum provides a space for knowledge exchange between disciplines, encourages cross-fertilization of ideas and methodology, and fosters collaborations between artists and researchers.
‘Drawing Beyond Human’ will centre on ‘Man Stupid’, a body of work by Coutts that began in response to video recordings of Koko, a gorilla that was taught American Sign Language in captivity, and who addressed the COP26 Climate Conference in 2014. In this presentation, this example of practice-led research will propose drawing as a means for making ‘language’ and vocabulary within interspecies encounters. It questions what such an exploration, at the limits of what is commonly understood as ‘language’, can contribute to concerns of how to act and live in proximity to the current climate emergency.
Coutts presented alongside Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Grace Schwindt
SALTHOUSE EXHIBITION
No full textThe exhibition is a show case of Fiona Robertson's latest film work SALTHOUSE (2023)
The closing event was held on the Tuesday 27th @ 5pm February in the Reid auditorium where Carl Lavery, Professor of the Theatre and Performance, University of Glasgow was in conversation with the artist, this event was be accompanied by a screening of SALTHOUSE (2023).
Alongside the new film photographs from a selection of Fiona’s films made over the past 14 years were exhibited. Some costumes and props featured in Fiona’s films and documentation of projects related to her collaborative work with theatre and performance makers are also displayed
Silk Town
No full textExpedition to the small town of Soufli, nestled in the Northern Region of Greece, to delve into the rich history of serigraphy and unravel the intricate story of silk. A town of major significance as hub of the Silk Road, Soufli also played an important part in serigraphy and silk production in the beginning of the 19th century. Recently re-discovered and deemed as culturally significant, this research output recounts the history of serigraphy and considers the historical and socio-economic context that surrounds politically contested territories and the communities that are disrupted by socio-economic and geopolitical shifts and resist them
Rediscovery, Recovery, Revision: An exploration of feminist methodologies in curatorial trends at the centre in Europe and North America since 2007
Get PDFOver the last fifteen years or so the art world has witnessed the steady rise of interest in older and dead artist-women whose work has previously been neglected or ignored for sustained periods. Writer Zoë Lescaze named it ‘the age of reparative exhibitions,’ whereby several high-profile mainstream art museums and institutions appear to be seeking to correct their prior exclusions and bring discussion of canon revision to the fore. This trend has outwardly signalled the use of strategies such as revision and recovery that have been discussed in feminist scholarship since the 1970s. The aim of this research, therefore, is to explore to what extent this evolving trend in the mainstream art world has followed an engagement with feminist discourse and feminist art history. It seeks to investigate what feminist curatorial strategies, if any, have been used in the production of the exhibitions that have recovered these artists, as well as examining how the exhibitions’ framing conditions have impacted the artistic legacy of the artists being foregrounded. Ultimately, it endeavours to determine whether or not this trend signifies that we are finally witnessing feminist strategies entering the museum in meaningful ways.
The thesis is structured over four chapters. The first traces one genealogy of feminist curatorial practice from the 1970s to the mid-1990s, outlining a selective number of key feminist curatorial strategies. The subsequent chapters provide distinct case studies that critically examine the renewed interest in three artists – Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), Lee Lozano (1930–1999) and Betye Saar (1926–). Each chapter analyses the exhibitions and curatorial work that has brought these artists mainstream recognition. It uses textual analysis of exhibition and artist-related materials, archival research, and interviews with key curators, artists, and writers associated with these artists recovery.
This research considers feminist curatorial practice as a form for feminist historiography, primarily focusing on an examination of curatorial practices in the mainstream art world from 2007 to the present. In doing so, it aims to provide a critical and timely reflection on a key moment in the history of the art world’s engagement with artist-women
Informal Housing in 20th-century Europe: origins, transformations, divergences
No full textPresentation and Session Chair, together with Noel Manzano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Informal urbanization/ housing was not merely a phenomenon of the Global South, but in fact widespread in many European capital cities until the second half of the 20th century, and in fact a significant factor of urban growth until recently.
Our session proposes to establish a dialogue to show the European dimension of the phenomenon. We aim to historize the origins and transformations of informal housing at a transnational level, transcending localised narratives, and discussing commonalities and divergences in different countries.
Our hypothesis is that at the beginning of the 20th century many European countries saw a two-fold process influenced by transnational experiences: on the one hand the adoption of modern hygiene laws and urban planning norms, and on the other hand the outlawing of precarious housing production. As a consequence, informal housing mutated and became clandestine, regulated by forces beyond the state, and subjected to varying degrees of tolerance and repression by national and municipal authorities.
We particularly invite proposals that focus on the following themes:
-urban policies and planning aiming at outlawing, eradicating or regularizing self-built housing, including the divergence between legislation and implementation, particularly from a transnational perspective.
- collective action in defence of housing rights, and the influence of political or religious groups in the local and national coordination of resistance.
- the architecture of informal housing and its transformation over time
-The role of the real estate market the regulation of property and landownership, whether collaborative (neighbourhood associations) or coercive (mafias)
A Northern Shelter for Shared Learning
Get PDFThe shieling in Scotland and laavu in Finland are temporary shelters or dwellings built from natural materials, used by those working in nature away from permanent settlements. The thematic scope of the project allowed for the examination of Arctic and Near Arctic ecocultures in the spirit and values of the Arctic University: bridging
the past and present, traditional knowledge and contemporary practices together to foster revitalisation. Shielin-bough is a good example of the Arctic Sustainable Art and Design Thematic Network’s approach to bringing sustainability-focused research, art, and education into practice across various Northern and Arctic regions. The project also demonstrates the porous boundaries between contemporary art, architecture, and craftsmanship discovered though new genre Arctic art education
Hybrid Piece
Get PDFA hybrid telematic orchestra performance with improvising between a zoom orchestra and the room orchestra in the CCA Theatre for GIOFest XVI, which was recorded for the BBC Radio 3 New Music Show.
PERFORMANCE composed and staged by Jessica Argo, PHOTOMONTAGE FILM composed and edited by Jessica Argo, with photography from Brian Hartly Stillmotion Photo, and the performance recording mixed and mastered by Jim McEwan.
HYBRID PIECE, for ZOOM ORCHESTRA and ROOM ORCHESTRA. Movement I: Listen and Respond
Movement II: spotlights role models for creativity and care that transcends categorisation (and time/space barriers) - I am so lucky to have made music/dance/text with these talented women who never fail to make me laugh, cry or and think deeply about our relationships with eachother and care for humans and more-than-humans x (watch this space for a GIO Global film from Constance, “a piece to entice birds” (who had not returned to her stoop in Washington heights, NYC) Stillmotionarts photos by Brian Hartley @stillmotionarts
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra HYBRID PIECE, MOVEMENT III: Free improvisation with Lighting Crescendo
Hybrid Piece for ZOOM Orchestra and ROOM Orchestra
Composing a piece that at first seemed mere stage directions –
“You play – whatever you want”
now “you play – in response”
“pre-selected duet” –
“now all of you play – whatever you want, as long as you are crescendoing with the light”
I wanted to place the ZOOM orchestra, first on, centre stage – all eyes and ears on them – then ask the ROOM orchestra to
honour their launch of the festival as if an answer to their question. A Yes, and…
I needed to spotlight key matriarchal voices in a duet.
And then push the ZOOM Orchestra and ROOM orchestra to “play together” in a shared task -knowing the ROOM orchestra was bathed in the crescendo of light brightness – and knowing the ZOOM orchestra merely saw the stage light as a beam standing in for a face on their computer screen.
So, film is a structuring role within our spontaneous music – the quest to produce an unweildily expanding archive is MOTIVATED by the spotlight – the staging in our physical festival with a theatre audience.
By setting a regular space (that space - actually being time! 2 hours every Tuesday) for our Global Orchestra to perform to camera – in “Diverse Spaces and Places” – means that we frame, prioritise our everyday.
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra have a fluid and multi-dimensional (perhaps even quantum or multi-versal) approach to filming improvisation and improvising with film.
Film can be a structuring role within the music, or film can explode and implode where and when that music is situated - essentially a band can play Everything, Everywhere, All at Once – using telematic digital video-conferencing technology and/or the physical theatre apparatus – sometimes ALL AT ONCE
GIOFest XVI GIO Global Mainstage Films - S L O W , Passport, Lines on the Floor
No full textTo ensure audiences across all three nights of the festival accessed the GIO Global Orchestra work, we opened the second half of each concert with a 5 minute extract from a carefully selected “spontaneously arising” GIO Global film.
S L O W was played as a pre-lude to Maggie Nichols’ drone based Pibroch for Palestine, including Refaat Alareer’s powerful poem “If I must die” staged on the National Day of Action. (pibroch – theme/ground/variations for pipes)
Passport was screened on the night that Surbhi Mittal’s voice boomed through the PA to introduce her Unbound watercolour score – Passport was an homage to the international collaboration of the Delhi Improvisers Orchestra (founded by Raymond 2024), and Douglas Ewart’s Concentric was conducted with George E Lewis as conduit for his ideas in absentia
Lines on the Floor, a graphic score of dancers shoes dragging a residue on a white floor, was screened before the “Small Groups” sessions on the last night, to emulate the shifting formations and constellations (striking and moving ensembles throughout the stage) (and the movevement workshops for GIObabies and GioDynamics
Public launch - Fieldguide Number 2 - Landscape as Archive
No full textAt the launch of the Reading Landscape Fieldguide series, Dr Gina Wall and Dr Alex Hale presented an introduction to their collaboration, its history, the forms that their research takes and their key concerns as collaborative researchers. Wall and Hale have been working together for eight years and Fieldguide Number 2 Landscape as Archive, shares their insights around death, memory and belonging in northern landscapes through creative and collaborative publication practice. At the launch of the publication they discussed the significance of shared experiences of bereavement and the insights that this brought to working with the Bronze Age cist remains from the site on the Altyre Estate, where the GSA Highlands & Islands campus is located. Drawing on Baradian ethics, they acknowledge their entanglement and their respons-ability to the person who was extracted from the cist at Altyre in 1931 and through this publication they ask if it is time to rematriate these remains to their final resting place; to return the lightness of this being to the landscape in which they belong
LENS: Lived Experience Narratives and Scenarios of Eating Disorders
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LENS focuses on understanding lived experiences of young people (16-25 years) from diverse, underrepresented, and ‘at risk’ groups and co-designing ideas for future support and services. It is part of a wider programme ‘EDIFY’ focusing on transforming how eating disorders are perceived, prevented and treated (Hemmings et al., 2022).
Methodology
Using a participatory design approach (Raman and French, 2022), young people with lived experiences participated in one to one interviews and a co-design workshop. Engagements used a visual metaphor of a ‘kaleidoscope’ to explore impacts of resource security, ethnicity and culture, place, and gender on young people’s journeys of living with an eating disorder and understanding how and where these impacts might intersect (Stephens, Raman and French, 2024).
Findings
The visual journeys were synthesised into visual maps representing each young person’s unique journey. These enabled a nuanced understanding of diversity in young people’s experiences, and the impact of resource security, ethnicity and culture, place, and gender on accessing support. The maps were analysed thematically to identify recurring themes and key principles for future support. The emerging themes and principles reflect what matters to young people around future care and support. These will be further iterated based on outputs from the co-design workshop alongside synthesising key recommendations for future practice