GI at the Southside Studios

COME TO THESE:

1. AS PART OF THE SUPPORTED PROGRAMME:

Familiar (Parts One & Two)

Commissioned by Southside Studios, in association with Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts 2012

Familiar 

 

Part One   

Preview: Saturday the 21st  April 7pm – 9pm  

Exhibition Open: 20th  April – 7th  May 11am – 6pm  

Southside Studios, 17 Westmoreland Street, G42 8LL  

   

Artists Eric Eyres , Michelle Hannah, Rose Ruane and Anna Tanner have been selected to mount the inaugural exhibition  ‘Familiar’, in a new and bespoke pentagonal gallery at Southside Studios.  

   

An interdisciplinary show taking in video, photography, drawing, painting,  and performance, it will attempt to examine the role of shared memory and collective consciousness in defining the unstable relationship between the magical and the mortal. 

    

Concerned with the yearning of the human spirit to search for experiences beyond the mundane, this exhibition endeavours to tease out the relationship between the esoteric and everyday.   

 

Familiar 

 

Part Two   

Performances: Friday the 27th  April 7pm – 12am  

McNeill’s Bar Function Room, 106 Torrisdale  Street, G42 8PH  

   

    

This night of offsite performance and video will expand on the themes of the exhibition, with screenings of new work by Erica  Eyres and performances by Michelle Hannah, Rose Ruane and Anna Tanner.  

   

Weaving together glossy fragments of half remembered TV variety spectaculars, educational video and sparkling disco stars the artists will produce an evening of music, film and spoken word.  

   

   

   

 

About the organisation: 

   

Southside Studios new gallery space imaginatively repurposes Ganghut’s  sculptural pavilion, which had remained onsite since their 2010 Glasgow International project. Conceived by Jenny Baynes , funded by Glasgow International and  realised  by owner Ben Walker in collaboration with several designer/maker tenants of the studio, this innovative architectural project creates fresh opportunities for exhibitions and performances. First opened in December 2005, Southside Studios are an artist-run studio space providing exhibition and workspace to 28 artists and designers.  

2. AS PART OF THE INCLUDED PROGRAMME:

REAL TIME GLIMPSES AHEAD

At a closing event towards the end of the festival, the gallery will be ceremoniously named. The studio artists/designers are involved in deciding on a name for the gallery, as well as the structure under which it will operate. The outline of a yearlong programme of shows, events, plays and parties will be presented.

Real Time Glimpses Ahead will attempt to give a flavour of future shows planned in the new gallery. Studio artists/designers display glimpses of things to come in and around the studio complex. The exhibition is understood as a work in progress, still evolving and changing during the festival period.
A central point will provide information about the 6 yearlong history of Southside Studios, as well as other local events, groups and venues.
First opened in December 2005, Southside Studios are an artist-run studio space providing exhibition and work space to 28 artists and designers.
Real Time Glimpses Ahead is presented as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012.
Opening Details:
Preview night:                      Saturday 21st April 2012, 7-9pm, free
Opening days:                      every day from 20 April – 7 May 2012, free
Opening hours:                    11am - 6pm
Closing Party:                       ‘The Wake’ on Saturday 5 May 2012, 8-12pm, free

Southside Studios, 17 Westmoreland Street, Govanhill, Glasgow, G42 8LL
www.southsidestudios.org

Screamin Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You

from roy

Hair Of The Dog

I've been helping Jonnie with his installation coming up this weekend, involving 8 Niftymitters.. Do come along, it is going to have to be good.



A full length album of material from Jonnie Common’s debut 'Master Of None' remixed by a talented bunch of his personal favourites. Available as a limited screen print with download. Featuring:

GEESE : DEMS : FOUND : BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD : ONTHEFLY : RIVER OF SLIME : GRNR : A LA FU : MIAOUX MIAOUX : THE JAPANESE WAR EFFORT : CAUGHT IN THE WAKE FOREVER


Nov 25 - 27 : Jonnie Common Sound Installation

Jonnie Common has worked with Zero Waste Design to produce an interactive sound installation at MONO that lets users mix the elements of his debut album with the added potential for lo-fi surround sound to be achieved.

If that’s not all, an exhibition by illustrator David Galletly will also be shown over the weekend featuring drawings and murals related to ‘Master Of None’.


Nov 27 : Exhibition Closing Party

live sets from: BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD + DEMS + GRNR
special guest DJ sets from: FOUND + THE JAPANESE WAR EFFORT

7.30pm : £4 : MONO : 12 Kings Court, Glasgow, G1 5RB


INFO + TICKETS: WWW.JONNIECOMMON.COM

Kate Hartman on TED

This excellent Ted talk by Kate Hartman, has almost all the things theSlog is interested in: design, glaciers, funnies..

Ditto vid

Ditto

I'm currently doing percussion for a show in Edinburgh, entitled Ditto. The List had this to say:
http://www.list.co.uk/article/32023-ditto-explores-how-8-12-year-old-children-listen-and-respond-to-music/#

It's on at the Traverse on Saturday at 13.30 if anyone fancies a skeg.
Roy

New pics up

Have had an evening of sorting through photos and as such have updated my Flickr for the first time in a while! Too much to talk about but shall list the sets:
Homegame, Whitehills windfarm, Edale, Scope, Love Calculator, Dundee, Dumfries and Galloway before Christmas, and even Paris!

Here's one at random:


I am Roy.

Allotment tonight

This is very late, having done one of these gigs already, but allow me to publicise tonight's performance of Allotment 4 at least.



NTS say:

Produced by Angie Bual and Caroline Newall, the final Allotment offers an alternative night out by embracing cyberspace and the phenomena of social networking. An artistic take on websites including Facebook, MySpace and My Single Friend, Allotment will bring virtual networking experiences to life. Through live music, art and performance, the final Allotment experience will enable punters to reclaim the art of conversation, make new friends and take part in some dating games. As the night unfolds, three secret locations will also be brought in to the mix.

I say, I would never dream on basing a piece of musical work on a website, so can't really back up that statement! Fergus and I are, however, interested in the social dynamics of immprovisation, and as such we are putting on a version of Scope, the jam session where visual and musical improv coalesce. Following the practices we did last summer, this idea has come to fruition in a modified form, with Inspector Tapehead forming the core band. There are three 20minute sessions throughout the night, each time with the lineup including a different guest musician and visual artist. So at Allotment we can offer you:

Fergus Dunnet
Inspector Tapehead (Jonnie Common, Chris Croasdale and me, Roy)
Stuart Macpherson (dbass/JSS/formerly of Engine)
Justin Eade (Glimpse)
George Murray (dBass/One Ensemble/GIO)
Aby Vulliamy (One Ensemble/Nalle)
Jenny Soep (Drawing the experience)
and last night we had the percussive prowess of Peter Kelly (Moon Unit/ formerly of Galchen).

Check out this link for the event info, it's in Govancross Shopping Centre from 8pm tonight and last night was a corker.

Roy

three happenings in three days

1. Love Calculator @ The Forest Fringe @ The Arches, Glasgow.

- Fergus Dunnet and Angie Bual present a machine that *will* calculate
your match, as part of this microfestival in The Arches. I'm providing
the sounds for it!
Friday and Saturday from 7.30, £10/£5. flyer here.

2. Ganghut @ GI @ Southside Studios, Glasgow.

- The southide's opening for the Glasgow International Festival of
Visual Art, with Dundee's Ganghut presenting their musical/
environmental/ performance based endeavours along with the usual
southside shenanigans.
Saturday from 7. Featuring homemade pizza, all free.
Exhibition open everyday until the 30th, when there will also be a
closing party.



3. Inspector Tapehead @ The Gentle Invasion @ The Roxy Room (formerly
The Bowery), Edinburgh.

- It's a gig. With Inspector Tapehead, Nathalie Stern and the Japanese
War Effort, Tapehead premiering some new stuff ahead of the album
release this summer.
Sunday from 7.30, £5.

Grampian Mountains

The newest link on theSlog blog (from whence these posts come, for those of you viewing this on facebook) is Grampian Mountains, the blog of Glasgow based graphic designer and disc jockey Point to C, whom I had the pleasure of meeting recently. Very tasty photos and compositions alike.. checky:
http://grampianmountains.blogspot.com/

Roy

Southside Studios opening this weekend

Merlin James / Andrew Taylor / Tom Varley

Preview - Saturday 27 February 2010 - 7pm

Southside Gallery, 17 Westmoreland Street, Govanhill, Glasgow, G42 8LL

www.southsidestudios.org

The Show will run from 2nd March till 16th March 2010.

by appointment only, please call 077927 39788

Fun Occult - Recoat opening on Friday

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Fun Occult

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Fergus ont' web

Meant to post this a while back - Fergus has updates his website with some pics from Allotment back in November - or was it October? Good times, and a great looking website.

http://fergus-dunnet.weebly.com/

Murphy and friends have been busy..

Sound of jelly wobbling recorded for architects' competition - Telegraph

Mashup!

Here's a rather fun mashup mix from DJ Food, feat. excerpts of Paul Morley reading from his book on the history of sound manipulation, Words & Music. Its messed up.

Thank you Jonnie!

via the supreme ubu.com [<-tracklist here]

I knew you'd like that Radiohead/brubeck mashup Dave!

Drawing Radiohead

green plastic radiohead: Drawing Radiohead

An interesting 6 minute video showing Stanley Donwood doing a run of screenprints in his studio.

Obsession

There are three qualities that motivate me in any activity: exhilaration, elegance, and sharing.

When cycling, I like to cycle fast, feeling the exhilaration of the wind in my face. I ride a fixie, the simplest, most elegant form of bike. I bought it from a social enterprise in Maryhill, sharing the assembly with those who can benefit most from the experience. I love the closeness of the messenger/fixie community in Glasgow, and how the best way to do anything with bikes here is to talk to someone else about it.

When doing design work, I am obsessed with elegance, and seek out the exhilaration one feels when having created anything. I strive for a more sharing community in industrial design, hence Zero-waste.

As for music, this is where all three are inextricably bound up. Playing for excitement, for beauty and for the act of interaction with players and audience, altogether, makes perfect sense to me.

I could go on, applying this thinking to why I do and don't like flying kites, why I like travelling, why I like staying in one place, why I'm unsure about moving flats.

The bottom line is that I'm not hyperactive - I'm obsessive, and will pursue any activity to satisfy these obsessions.

Model Railways in the ghetto.

gallery | TRAINSET GHETTO

entschwindet und vergeht.

entschwindet und vergeht.: May 2007

I have discoveered that Murphy (Dougie) has a blog. It even shows some of his architecturally concerned meanderings. And he has also been doing some performance. Excellent stuff.

Endangered Machinery

Endangered Machinery :: Industrial and Industrial Heritage Photography :: Haiko Hebig

I do like this.

See here too, for more industrial beauty.

via Core77