Reid Gallery:
18 – 30
April 2015 with live performances on 22-25, 29 and 30 April
April 2015 with live performances on 22-25, 29 and 30 April
Image: Catherine
Street, Sway & Muscle,
work-in-progress, !!WAKAKA!
Street, Sway & Muscle,
work-in-progress, !!WAKAKA!
The latest exhibition in the Reid Gallery at
The Glasgow School of Art focuses on the work of Edinburgh-based artist,
Catherine Street. A body of new work which lies between an exhibition and a slowly
unfolding piece of theatre, Muscle Theory
will run from 18– 30 April 2015 and will include a number of performance by the
artist featuring a custom-made garment by fashion designer and Zephyr Liddell.
The Glasgow School of Art focuses on the work of Edinburgh-based artist,
Catherine Street. A body of new work which lies between an exhibition and a slowly
unfolding piece of theatre, Muscle Theory
will run from 18– 30 April 2015 and will include a number of performance by the
artist featuring a custom-made garment by fashion designer and Zephyr Liddell.
“Catherine Street’s
work consists of layers of experience,” says GSA Exhibitions Director Jenny Brownrigg. “She often incorporates her own body into an
installation setting that has video, audio, drawn, sculptural, and written
elements.
work consists of layers of experience,” says GSA Exhibitions Director Jenny Brownrigg. “She often incorporates her own body into an
installation setting that has video, audio, drawn, sculptural, and written
elements.
In Muscle Theory sounds
and images gradually reveal their connections and antagonisms. Precisely spoken
voice recordings, softly flickering projections and live performances will be
configured to create an atmosphere of intense reverie that is occasionally
interrupted by moments of vulnerability, salaciousness, confusion or cynicism.”
and images gradually reveal their connections and antagonisms. Precisely spoken
voice recordings, softly flickering projections and live performances will be
configured to create an atmosphere of intense reverie that is occasionally
interrupted by moments of vulnerability, salaciousness, confusion or cynicism.”
Image: Catherine Street, Continuum, 2012, video still.
The atmosphere of Street’s work is usually
unnerving, tense, sensual and comical. Intense breathing sounds give the viewer
the feeling of moving inside the lungs, the body’s cavities – whilst her
writings often describe a desire to break apart the flesh and return it to its
constituent elements.
unnerving, tense, sensual and comical. Intense breathing sounds give the viewer
the feeling of moving inside the lungs, the body’s cavities – whilst her
writings often describe a desire to break apart the flesh and return it to its
constituent elements.
Street focuses on her body because of its
multitudinous natures; on the one hand simply matter subject to physical laws,
and on the other a potentially limitless field of meanings: social, political,
sexual, spiritual. She pays particular attention to themes of transformation
and to the relationship between matter, thought, emotion and sensation.
multitudinous natures; on the one hand simply matter subject to physical laws,
and on the other a potentially limitless field of meanings: social, political,
sexual, spiritual. She pays particular attention to themes of transformation
and to the relationship between matter, thought, emotion and sensation.
Performances: ‘Breathing then speaking’
Wednesday 22 –
Saturday 25, Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 April
Saturday 25, Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 April
in the gallery from 3:30pm – 4:30pm.
The artist’s voice is slow and meditative as
she uses various mental operations in this durational performance combining
live and recorded spoken word. The looped imaginings, calculations and
speculations mingle with intense breathing and whistling sounds as well as
field recordings made in the streets surrounding GSA. The performance is
conceived as part of the installation, audience members are encouraged to come
and go as they please.
she uses various mental operations in this durational performance combining
live and recorded spoken word. The looped imaginings, calculations and
speculations mingle with intense breathing and whistling sounds as well as
field recordings made in the streets surrounding GSA. The performance is
conceived as part of the installation, audience members are encouraged to come
and go as they please.
The development of this work has been supported
by an artist’s bursary from Creative Scotland, and will feature work first
initiated on residencies at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden;
Hospitalfield, Arbroath and CCA, Glasgow and with project !!WAKAKA! in
Edinburgh.
by an artist’s bursary from Creative Scotland, and will feature work first
initiated on residencies at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden;
Hospitalfield, Arbroath and CCA, Glasgow and with project !!WAKAKA! in
Edinburgh.
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Further information:
Lesley Booth
0779 941 4474 /press@gsa.ac.uk
Note for Editors
Catherine Street is
an artist based in Edinburgh. She has made work for performance festivals and
exhibitions around the world including in Prague, Bergen, Berlin, Wellington
and New York. She collaborates widely, maintaining long-standing collaborations
with poet JL Williams and with composer and performance-maker Greg Sinclair.
Her most recent work was a commission created for the exhibition project Human
Race – Inside the History of Sports Medicine which toured around Scotland. She
has contributed to a number of publications, most recently the Modern Edinburgh
Film School anthology Queer Information.
an artist based in Edinburgh. She has made work for performance festivals and
exhibitions around the world including in Prague, Bergen, Berlin, Wellington
and New York. She collaborates widely, maintaining long-standing collaborations
with poet JL Williams and with composer and performance-maker Greg Sinclair.
Her most recent work was a commission created for the exhibition project Human
Race – Inside the History of Sports Medicine which toured around Scotland. She
has contributed to a number of publications, most recently the Modern Edinburgh
Film School anthology Queer Information.
For more information
visit: http://catherinestreet.net
visit: http://catherinestreet.net