Performance looming, films being made, GI happens its happening now
“Its been some what of a slog, but slogs are good when you really know how to knock them out of the court with some good old fashioned ‘sod this let’s just enjoy ourselves’.”
‘Parallèlement à l’intérieur (au-dessus de)’ the project I am collaborating on with Jennifer Picken is now installed in three different places around Glasgow, threading in to Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (GI).
The Mutual artist group have coined each of these places ‘Muster Points’, places of information, collection. We decided to use three out of their four spaces to elaborate on aspects of the work we have been making.
Muster point, Trongate 103
Here we have two sculptural works installed in the space next to a monitor that displays three separate films we have made for the project; ‘Radish Journey’, ‘True Music to Object-hood’ and ‘sound from tunnel and back’.
Muster point, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)
Here we have the same films on display on a similar monitor and have also produced an intervention using the last two manifestos conceived during the build up to GI (see http://tinyurl.com/breakdestroy4 and see http://tinyurl.com/whistleblower5 ), these have been printed as posters on to A3 paper and pinned to the wall amongst other posters and flyers for other events (GI and otherwise) on the first floor entrance to the building. The other posters are of course timely with our own project’s first instalment; this is a deliberate use of space, engendering the manifestos with a formula usually attached to the ‘poster’ format. The manifestos themselves are not posters though, they sort of hang in between as ideas or proposals for art works and further interventions. They get taken over and get taken down as more people add their events to the room, and as our project runs its course.
Muster point, The Glue Factory
Here we have a larger selection of object-based work, painted objects, cardboard sculptures, drawings, leaking sacks, lubed up black holes and dangling golden plastic hair. The installation as a whole doubles up as a stage set as we have a performance in the very same room on Saturday 28th April, entitled ‘Whistle Blower your table shine is mine: Seduce and Destroy’. In fact, its worth mentioning, the final Manifesto, which Jennie produced and is now on display at CCA, acts as a sort of pre-cursor to to the performance.
More about the performance to come after the weekend. We have produced a short story in order to help us script and pace the event. The story talks about the performance as if it has already happened, from the perspective on an audience member.
In case you’re in Glasgow on Saturday and want to come along, it starts (with means to go on) at 5pm at The Mutual Charter Muster Point, The Glue Factory – for more details see the Facebook event here – http://www.facebook.com/events/345045302224903
The performance will introduce a further story written by Jennie and will feature a new film produced by myself specially for the live event!
For more details and addresses of where to find ‘Parallèlement à l’intérieur (au-dessus de)’ during GI see – http://tinyurl.com/audessusde
