The current cohort of Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) Masters students will present their final projects – spanning exhibitions, performances, publication launches, screenings and workshops – over the next two weeks .
Rose Bache invites us to explore a vocabulary on smell; Rachael Burns has developed a toolkit on compassionate bureaucracy; Holly Croson-Brown has staged a live workshop to explore performance pedagogies; Kim Crowleyhas corresponded with a group of artists on textual process; Þorsteinn Freyr Fjölnisson has conversed with specialists on ideas of ethics in museums; Frankie Gallagher will be quietly installing artistic interventions in three Southside public libraries; Harriet Kotvics will launch a queer magazine into the Discord community; Sian Kydd has written on curatorial activism; Holly MacDonald has explored the botanic in search of a good life; Valeria Nuyanzinahas invited artists to tell secret stories in a hidden garden; Natasha Parker-Edwards has glided towards a dialogue with a group of inter-disciplinary practitioners; Sebastian Taylor will be workshopping xenography with artists and physicists; Emma Watson has tended to the questions raised around a feminist poethics; Noah Xu shall be screening artists films that recall memories of HIV/AIDs; and Marina Ziavra has trailed a labyrinth from which we might lose ourselves.
The MLitt in Curatorial Practice is a joint programme between The Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow
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Thursday 28 July, 4-9pm
‘In Flux: Spaces, Artists, Conversations, Practices, Research’
Curated by Natasha Parker- Edwards.
A multi-media installation and screening including contributions from Gavriel Rubin, Henry Metherell, Genevieve Murphy, Molly Foulkes, Emily Davis, Sian Kydd, Laura Foster and Noah McIntyre.
Venue: New Glasgow Society (West), 1307 Argyle Street, G3 8TL.
Friday 29 July, 7.30-11pm
‘Perform Space’
Curated by Holly Croson-Brown
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Perform Space’ is an explorative, practice-led research project on producing and platforming performative, experimental art practice through collaboration. Join us for an evening of performance with a line up of wonderful Glasgow-based artists.
Venue: The Flying Duck
142 Renfield Street G2 3AU
Saturday 30 July, 7-8pm
Category Is… Books’, 34 Allison Street G42 8NN
‘Inside the camera: screening of memories recalling HIV/AIDS histories’
Curated by Noah Xu
‘Inside the Camera’ provides a political and emotional space for HIV/AIDS discourses. This is an intimate screening of ‘I Remember Dancing’ by Nguyen Tan Hoang, ‘Feel My Love’ by Eothen Stearn and reading of ‘Journal of the Plague Year’ by Stuart Marshall.
Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 July, 10am-6pm
(Including Music performance by Emily Dunlop at 4pm on Saturday 30)
‘GOOD LIFE’
Curated by Holly MacDonald
‘GOOD LIFE’ is a contemporary art installation based on forming a positive relationship and sustainable connection between ourselves and the environment. The artwork exhibited includes sculpture, painting, film and interactive art, by artists Emily Dunlop, Isaac Aldridge and Suzanne Anthony. With a solo performance by Emily Dunlop.
Venue: Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanical Gardens, 730 Great Western Road G12 0UE
Saturday 30– Sunday 31 July, 5-8pm & 12-5pm
‘Labyrinth: How many times?’
Curated by Marina Ziavra
An exhibition of works by Anna Koutsafti and Alex Young, ‘Labyrinth: How many times?’ surveys a conscious and unconscious landscape of human thoughts and actions. It is a project that approaches issues that are connected with human existence through psychoanalytical ways in relation to the Minoan myth of the Labyrinth.
Venue: New Glasgow Society, 1/2 31 Melville Street G41 2LN
Monday 1 August, 4pm
SUBSIST (Zine)
Edited and curated by Harriet Kotvics
SUBSIST aims to bring three different artists together in one publication that will only be shared physically with them. At its core, SUBSIST is a place to share ideas, thoughts, and art, whilst at the same time bringing people together that may not have had the chance to find each other in their own local. At this stage this is an intimate community, to grow the publication and community fostered by Harriet.
Monday 1- Saturday 6 August
‘Bus stop to horizon – wasteland to window’
Curated by: FrankieGallagher
Venues:
Pollockshields Library, Leslie Street, G41 2lf
Gorbals Library, Crown Street, G5 9xd
Langside Library, Sinclair Drive, G42 9qe
Opening times: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10am – 5pm;
Tuesday and Thursday 10am – 8pm
Featuring works by: David Lisser, Debra Welch, Jefford Horrigan, and James Epps. The four artworks are nestled into Langside, Pollockshields, and Gorbals Libraries and are yours to be browsed through the first week of August. Running alongside is a map of the geology and streets of Glasgow Southside. Routes to and from each library criss-cross an area that for each person is well-trodden or new. Just as the stories and information contained within paper covers and the songs on the radio are ours to enjoy, so too are the visual arts ours to pick up and put down, tune into and skip over, dwell in, ponder on and spend a lifetime with.
Wednesday 3 August 7-8.30pm – online discussion – free to join
‘As Matter’
Curated and Edited by Emma Watson
‘As Matter’ is an online publication that explores the theory of poethics through creative practice. Framed as an encounter, the publication features artworks by artists Désirée Coral and Fairouz El Tom, and writing that corresponds with and writes to these artworks, with design by Freddie Guthrie. Informed by the writing of theorist Denise Ferreira da Silva, ‘As Matter’ engages a Black feminist poethics in order to speculate how to exist otherwise, an unthinking of the world towards its end – decolonisation.
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Thursday 4 August, 5-7pm
‘The Sky of a Hill’
Curated by Valeria Nuyanzina
‘Sky of a Hill’ takes the form of a storytelling event in Govanhill. The evening is the culmination of a project which includes a podcast series with five artists – Anna Winther, Joy Baek, Julie-Ann Simpson, Yulia Kovanova and Alice Sherlock. The constellation of ideas and stories shared on the podcast and through continuous sharing of stories over several months has lead to Sky of a Hill garden event. The art practice of each invited artist is a living thread of stories manifested and inspired by physical and fictional places. Sky of a Hill imagines metamorphosis in contemporary art practice.
Venue, Hidden Gardens, via Tramway: 25A Albert Drive G41 2PE
Free and no booking required – drop along and share stories.
Friday, 5 August, 12pm
‘Compassionate Bureaucracy: A Curatorial Toolkit’
Curated and edited by Rachael Burns
‘Compassionate Bureaucracy: A Curatorial Toolkit’ is a live web resource bringing together works that demystify or reshape arts bureaucracy. It acts both as a practical guide and a provocation to critically engage with the procedures of arts working to make them more caring, accessible and intuitive. The website considers the full life cycle of a project, linking information related to funding and contracts through to interpretation, evaluation and complaints. It cites a wealth of resources developed by arts workers that have been generously shared in a gesture of practical, actionable mutual support.
Friday 5 August, 6.30-8pm
A Library of Olfactive material , 28 St. Andrews St G1 5PD
‘Smell Moves’
Curated byRose Bache
What does home smell like? How often do you notice the smells that accompany you on the routes you walk every day? Our sense of smell has never been so closely scrutinised, any changes being micro-analysed as a potential marker of disease. Smell Moves is an interactive zine encouraging experiments in noticing, identifying and writing about the scents that populate your life. By inviting readers to contribute to their own personal smellscape, an olfactory painting of the city they live in, once lived in or just visit sometimes is created.
Friday 5 August, 6.30-8pm
GOOD PRESS, 32 St. Andrews St G1 5PD
‘Page / Process / Proceed’
Curated and edited by Kim Crowley
‘Page / Process / Proceed’ is a printed publication that explores text-based instruction as a catalyst for process and generativity. Featuring the work of four Glasgow-based artists, Jiyoon Lee, Ali Farrelly, Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe and Esyllt Lewis, the publication becomes a site for interchange, where varying responses, created under similar constraints, come together.