Hot off the press!

Lots of new things to see and explore here at Atypical Root!

As we count down to April 15th, the launch of The Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, the Atyp Corporate Headquarters has become a hive of activity as the details of performances, parties and artworks are nailed down tight. 

Our full press release has been posted and can be found on our press page.

Details on each of the participating Atypical artists and their projects can be found on the artist page.

Also, here is just a teaser of some of the events coming up - full details on the events page:

• Atypical Root Opening Sunday 18th April 2010 5-8pm at David Dale Gallery
  
• Atypical Finale / Launch of The Govan Armada Sunday 2nd May 2010; 12-5pm at Clydebrae Studios

Atypical Root | trail markers

This is our Atypical Root trail marker. You will see this sign dotted along the trail to guide visitors to the next Atypical artwork/exhibition/intervention and event. See you soon!

Adam Townend

Location:

Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre [SECC] Covered Walkway, Glasgow, G3 8YW
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Synopsis:

A sound installation in the walkway leading to the SECC which plays a recording taken from a
radio telescope of a dying star.

Description:

A sound installation in the covered walkway leading from the Exhibition Centre Railway Station to the SECC, the Science Centre and ultimately leading through the ‘Digital Media Quarter’ and on to Govan and the South. A response to the council’s action plan for the area, which states that the Pacific Quay area lacks ‘a sense of arrival’ that they have tried to address over the past 4 years. The sound installation will contribute to a ‘sense of arrival’ at the SECC and link the site to the Science Centre through the content of the work. The sound is a recording taken from a radio telescope of a dying star that imploded in the year 1054 AD and could be seen across the medieval world. It is only now that the sound has reached us.

Artist Contact:

adamrtownend-at-googlemail.com [replace -at- with @]

Alexandra P. Spaulding | Everything, for a Short Time

Location:

noiseforsomething gallery, Unit 6, Eastvale Place, Glasgow, G3
Monday-Saturday 12pm-5pm
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Synopsis: 

An immersive aural/audio installation exploring the ineffable experience that is created through certain kinds of contemporary art.

Description: 

This immersive audio installation focuses on the ineffable experience that is created through certain kinds of contemporary art, specifically immersive aural installation art. Striving towards greater clarity about how both artists and viewers can achieve a greater understanding of their own ineffable experiences. This is the final installation of Spaulding’s practice-led PhD.

Artist Contact:

aps215-at-gmail.com- [replace -at- with @]

Mhairi Sharp | Every Other Saturday

Location:

Along Govan Road, Glasgow
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Synopsis: 

Work reflecting the nostalgia and fashion of football casuals; the Govan area hosts both home and away fans in nearby Ibrox stadium.

Description:

A series of large-scale prints, fly-posted directly onto wall surfaces along this stretch of road, each sharing the theme of the nostalgia and fashion associated with football and terrace culture, such as the ‘Casuals’. Situated near to the Rangers Football stadium– the work, in relation to the area, intends to provoke reflection and pay tribute to this sub-culture in a visual manner, that also engages with the language and the culture of its host community.

Artist Statement:

The nostalgia of the (eighties) football Casuals and the fashion of this sub-culture interests me greatly within my practice. Through my work, I strive to provoke reflection and pay tribute to this lesser known sub-culture to which football and fashion mattered more to than corporate hospitality and sanitized stadiums. Colour, culture, the visual and site specificity are all important aspects to me within my practice.

Artist Contact:


mhairisharp-at-hotmail.com [replace -at- with @]

Seth Orion Schwaiger | In Passing

Location:

The Pentagon Centre, Washington Street, Glasgow, G3 8AZ
Monday- Friday 9am-5pm
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Synopsis:

Mixed media drawings documenting and expanding upon the geographical and architectural flavor of sites along Atypical Root with a focus on development and conversely degeneration.

Artist Contact:

sculpture-at-aesthetiac.com [replace -at- with @]
www.aesthetiac.com

Lauren McGhee

Location:

Various locations along the Atypical Public Art Trail
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Synopsis:

The new work is a large-scale collage, composed of five interlinking images of the sky. Each individual image is intersected by an electricity, telephone, or tram wire, linking the five images. This piece explores ideas of universal connections in everyday mundane existence; how the increasingly generic nature of urban spaces can affect the experience of our surroundings; perhaps creating a unified landscape through which all experience is mediated.

Artist Statement:

My practice usually revolves around an exploration of the experience of mundane aspects of the everyday, which, through sheer repetition, can become abstract yet instantly familiar aspects of our lives. Working primarily within painting and collage, I am interested in the contradictions within everyday experience; how something can be boring, and yet surreal; dull, yet comical; technological, yet redundant.

Artist Contact:

laurenmcintyremcghee-at-hotmail.com- [replace -at- with @]

Desmond Church

Location:

Olympia Playhouse, Orr Street facade
617 London Rd, Bridgeton G40 1NE
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Synopsis:


A section of the old Olympia playhouse façade near David Dale Gallery is sandblasted by the artist in an attempt to refresh the familiar site.

Description:

Glasgow-based Desmond Church will sandblast a circular area of brickwork on the façade of the Old Olympia Playhouse, Bridgeton. Church habitually creates both suggested and realized proposals for small interventions into the world, which offers a beguiling humour, and using wit to offer us a way into seeing the world afresh in more vivid and complex terms.


Artist Contact:


deschurch-at-hotmail.co.uk [replace -at- with @]
www.desmondchurch.co.uk

Angie Bual & Fergus Dunnet | Counter-Intelligence

Location:

Renfrew Ferry, Anderston Quay Broomielaw, Broomielaw, G3 8BX
Sunday 25th April 2010, 3pm-9pm
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Synopsis:

An interactive event: Come and play a spy game in the streets of Glasgow and you may be recruited by a TOP SECRET organisation. No experience necessary. Competitive disposition
required. Not for the faint hearted. Over 18's only.

Artist Contact:

angiebual-at-gmail.com [replace -at- with @]

Mark Bridges

Location:

Clydebrae Studios, Clydebrae Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G51 2AJ
Monday- Saturday 12pm-6pm (19/04-02/05/2010)
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Synopsis:

Influenced by the life of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and instigator of various prizes, as well as the notion of the Renaissance Man and general themes of heroism and exploration, yet unable to understand nor do justice to such topics, Bridges instead makes nice little pieces of embroidery and miniature landscapes constructed from a combination of found materials and modeling materials. This new work depicts landscapes, which, via their visual relationship to craft and their incongruous methods of presentation, appear to allude to colonialism and the occult.

Artist Contact:

atypicalroot-at-googlemail.com [replace -at- with @]

Natalie Lambert

Location:

Glasgow Science Centre Atrium, 50 Pacific Quay, G51 1EA  
Monday-Sunday 10am-5pm
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Synopsis:

Concrete benches offer weary visitors an opportunity to rest. Enticing the viewer with sound and light, which intensifies to a crescendo as they approach.

Description:

Three concrete benches offer weary visitors an opportunity to rest. These objects entice the viewer with sound and light, which intensifies to a crescendo as they approach and sit. Once the viewer is seated, they become ‘in’ the work, and it is complete. These active structures installed in transitory spaces spark interaction and dialogue between the audience, inviting them to become part of the piece and process. Continuing the artists’ ongoing investigation of human behaviour when in front of an artwork, the new work is typically sympathetic to its surroundings and playfully manipulative of its audience.

Artist Contact:

nlnlambert-at-gmail.com [replace -at- with @]
www.atypicalroot.com
www.natalielambert.co.uk

Kim McGuchan | Untitled

Location:

Lancefield Quay, off the Broomielaw, Glasgow
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Synopsis:

A large-scale collage, composed of five interlinking images of the sky. This piece explores ideas of universal connections in everyday mundane existence.


Description:

Sculptural installation made from recycled materials reflecting the surrounding architecture. McGuchan takes her influence from the buildings opposite and the seating close by to build a solid wooden structure. Using the geometric shapes of the buildings to shape the piece she will contrast their highly polished finished exteriors with the use of used materials.

Artist Contact:

kmcguchan-at-yahoo.co.uk [replace -at- with @]