Archive for May 2015
Teeth (2014) & Teeth II (2015)
Teeth (2:19 mins) inserts the artist, literally and amusingly, into the Blade Runner world. The video is an edit of a sequence in Blade Runner during which the female lead and love interest, Rachael (Sean Young), watches Deckard (Harrison Ford) get cleaned up after a fight. This section of the film is important as it…
Read MoreLet’s Not Talk About Money (2015)
Repeated viewing of films and the possibilities of delay, pause and reflection afforded by digital viewing offer Laura Mulvey’s possessive spectator the opportunity to hold onto favourite moments, fragmented from linear narrative. Mulvey claims that ‘In this delayed cinema the spectator finds a heightened relation to the human body, particularly to the star’. While it…
Read More31st Hamburg ISSF – No budget competition
NO BUDGET COMPETITION – GENERAL The NoBudget-film is both the festival’s origin and its laboratory. It creates an environment for radically subjective views, for experimenting, marginal, borderline, demanding, non-commercial and innovative short fi lms. NoBudget puts attitude and the creative process into the limelight. There are two prizes in this category: One is awarded by…
Read MoreTeeth II
Watch Teeth II – Like Dylan, I’ve gone electric.
Read MoreDeckard’s Other Dream
I should be doing other things. I made this instead.
Read MoreThe Rebel, Tut Vu Vu and Gummy Stumps
No art for me this weekend. Instead a magic night at the Old Hairdressers with Gummy Stumps, Tut Vu Vu and The Rebel. Pints of lager, roll and chips – old school Saturday night.
Read MoreOnly a Free individual can create a free society – Grace Schwindt
Also at Tramway was a new film by Grace Schwindt: ‘London-based German artist Grace Schwindt presents a new film at Tramway, Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society in which she revisits discussions witnessed during her childhood, surrounded by radical leftwing individuals in Frankfurt, Germany. A text appears in various forms throughout the film,…
Read MorePyramid Selling – Mick Peter at Tramway
This May Day weekend treats included Mick Peter’s new show at Tramway: ‘Pyramid Selling is a solo exhibition of new sculpture. It draws on a number of sources, including those of literature, commercial illustration and graphic design. Mimicking the tropes of ‘witty’ graphic design from the 60’s and 70’s, the exhibition takes a satirical look at…
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASE: Ripples on the Pond
From Gordon Boag, Media Officer, Glasgow Life 30 April 2015GALLERY OF MODERN ART EXHIBITION TO CELEBRATE THE ACQUISITION OF WORKS INSPIRED BY THE GLASGOW WOMENS LIBRARY A new exhibition featuring works, which celebrate the 21st anniversary of Glasgow Women’s Library and Scotland’s only women’s library, is opening at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. 12 of the…
Read MoreSpike Island Film open – the programme
FILM OPEN – Programme Times & Running Order Two one hour programmes will be screened on alternative evenings from May 1-4th at Spike Island. Index: Part 1 Friday 1 May at 5.15pm in the Associate Space, Spike Island Index: Part 2 Saturday 2 May at 5.15pm in the Associate Space, Spike Island Index: Part 1 Sunday 3 May at 5.15pm in…
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