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Published by the Skinny magazine and Central Station for Glasgow International, which featured Atypical Root and Radius:
11 May 2010
02 May 2010
Sunday 2 May, 12-5pm Atypical Finale & Launch of the Govan Armada +++
Sunday 2 May, 12-5pm Atypical Root wraps up in fine style with an afternoon of events on Clydbrae Street, Govan G51 2AJ (see how to get there below).
Events include, the judging and launch of The Govan Armada, an opening at Clydebrae Studios/Govanheim Gallery the Bike-So-Cool Pedal Bike Event and much more!
–Free Burgers to the first 100 people–
Burgers served starting at 1pm with thanks to Riverside Community Hall.
Fire engine on site all day from the Fire Brigade for kids to see!
Timetable for the day:
- 12-1pm Judging of boats in the Govan Armada
- 1-1.30 Welcome by Councillor Shaukat Butt, Blessing of The Armada by Bishop Gregor Duncan from The Scottish Episcopal Church, Announcement of judges and prizes awarded
- 230-330 LAUNCH of The Govan Armada
- 3-5pm Other events by Bike-So-Cool, viewing of the Govanheim Gallery
Getting there:
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Coming from the north/city centre - there's lots to see.
We'd suggest a stroll down the Broomielaw and Lancefeild Quay, taking in several Atyp works along the way before crossing over the Science Centre/BBC foot bridge to see what's on offer there. In the courtyard area you can find Kate V. Robertson and Gallacher & Warren. The Govan Graving Beacon can be seen from just in front of the Millennium Tower.
To get to Clydebrae Street head through the Science Centre car parks, past the Hub building, out to Govan Road. Take a right heading WEST on Govan Road. you'll pass old Town Hall, keeping the river generally on your right. You should see several Atyp markers as you go. As you approach the old dry docks there will be a high wall keeping you out. Clydebrae Street will be a right hand turn and you'll see a sign for a Tyre Service Centre on the corner.
To get to Clydebrae Street head through the Science Centre car parks, past the Hub building, out to Govan Road. Take a right heading WEST on Govan Road. you'll pass old Town Hall, keeping the river generally on your right. You should see several Atyp markers as you go. As you approach the old dry docks there will be a high wall keeping you out. Clydebrae Street will be a right hand turn and you'll see a sign for a Tyre Service Centre on the corner.
Via the Underground: 5min walk.
Exit at Govan Station and head EAST down Govan Road.
You should be able to see the Millennium Tower at Glasgow Science Centre over the roof tops ahead and a green area will soon be on your left.
As the green area ends, take your first left onto Naplier St - and just after some construction on your right, cross over to Clydebrae St ( Naplier & Clydebrae do not connect for vehicle traffic ).
Continue down Clydebrae St. about half a block. Clydebrae Studios and the Govanheim will be on your right, the river on your left.
Exit at Govan Station and head EAST down Govan Road.
You should be able to see the Millennium Tower at Glasgow Science Centre over the roof tops ahead and a green area will soon be on your left.
As the green area ends, take your first left onto Naplier St - and just after some construction on your right, cross over to Clydebrae St ( Naplier & Clydebrae do not connect for vehicle traffic ).
Continue down Clydebrae St. about half a block. Clydebrae Studios and the Govanheim will be on your right, the river on your left.
29 April 2010
26 April 2010
New images from the trail
A few more shots of works along the trail:
Sam Stead's "Boat":
t s Beall's "Govan Armada" in the Glasgow Science Centre reflecting pool:
Sam Stead's "Boat":
t s Beall's "Govan Armada" in the Glasgow Science Centre reflecting pool:
Atypical Root featured in the Glasgow Herald | 'Strange twists of artistry'
"There are a number of pieces making use of Glasgow's unusual, unseen or just ignored spaces in this year's GI programme, and using these spaces to say something about or to the city itself. Atypical Root is a specially curated strand of the festival, mainly comprising public art works placed by 25 Glasgow-based artists at certain points along a walking tour of the city. On Glasgow Green's Drying Green, where disused clothes poles still poke out of the ground, you'll find Shelton Walker's muted sound collage of the noises of contemporary domestic industry - washing machines, tumble dryers and ticking clocks - which have replaced the busy female community who used to use this space.
Following the route (or Root) along the Clyde, you'll eventually come to Jamie Cooper's brilliant Nae Place, a gaggle of crazily bent and re-soldered streetlights, hanging out like a bored gang on a Broomielaw wasteland, their light reflecting only their own bodies.
On the Govan Road (and at a few unmarked points in the East End), Mhari Sharp's fly-posted print series Every Other Saturday reflects on 1980s football casual fashions, while at Govan Graving Docks an automated beacon flashes Morse coded versions of text messages sent by locals in the direction of the Glasgow Tower (follow them in English at http://twitter.com/GovanBeacon)...."Read the compleete article via http://bnet.co.uk
Atypical Torrent | Interventions on the Broomielaw
Yesterday we gathered for a performance talk and interventions by the one and only, Anthony Schrag, under the Kingston Bridge....
21 April 2010
Kate V Robertson and other work at
The Glasgow Science Centre
Check out 'Meeting Space' by Kate V Robertson in the BBC/GSC Courtyard:
The most recent image from the beaconcam!
Also at Glasgow Science Centre, have a look for The Govan Graving Beacon, which you can text on your mobile at 07866429424, and The Govan Armada currently floating in the IMAX reflecting pool. These two works centre around the derelict Govan Graving Docks across from Science Centre's Millennium Tower.
Also don't miss the Atypical Root Finale on Sunday 2 May, from 12-5pm on Clydebrae Street G51 2AJ in front of the old Govan Graving Docks--see the events page for more information.
Check out the artist page or venues for more info on Atypical public artworks, and our Googlemap to plan your own Atypical Root!
The most recent image from the beaconcam!
Also at Glasgow Science Centre, have a look for The Govan Graving Beacon, which you can text on your mobile at 07866429424, and The Govan Armada currently floating in the IMAX reflecting pool. These two works centre around the derelict Govan Graving Docks across from Science Centre's Millennium Tower.
Also don't miss the Atypical Root Finale on Sunday 2 May, from 12-5pm on Clydebrae Street G51 2AJ in front of the old Govan Graving Docks--see the events page for more information.
Check out the artist page or venues for more info on Atypical public artworks, and our Googlemap to plan your own Atypical Root!
15 April 2010
Atypical public art = EVERYWHERE!
It's finally HAPPENING!!
Our Atypical Artists are installing public artworks across Glasgow in parks, wastelands, reflecting pools, BBC/Science Centre courtyard, AND MORE!
Check back here for news, images, event updates... there is so much happeing in Glagsow these days it's not possible to keep up.
ALSO--on Monday Natalie Lambert and t s Beall were on Sunny Govan Radio, talking about Atypical Root, our Finale party in Govan on Sunday 2 May, and The Govan Armada...
AND--the mini-SKINNY Magazine, featuring Atypical Root and Radius has landed! Get yours before those 10,000 copies run out....
LAST-be sure to come to our ATYPICAL OPENING PARTY this SUNDAY 18 April 5-8m at David Dale Gallery, featuring work by Theodoros Stamatogiannis and Risa Tsunegi.
Our Atypical Artists are installing public artworks across Glasgow in parks, wastelands, reflecting pools, BBC/Science Centre courtyard, AND MORE!
Check back here for news, images, event updates... there is so much happeing in Glagsow these days it's not possible to keep up.
ALSO--on Monday Natalie Lambert and t s Beall were on Sunny Govan Radio, talking about Atypical Root, our Finale party in Govan on Sunday 2 May, and The Govan Armada...
AND--the mini-SKINNY Magazine, featuring Atypical Root and Radius has landed! Get yours before those 10,000 copies run out....
LAST-be sure to come to our ATYPICAL OPENING PARTY this SUNDAY 18 April 5-8m at David Dale Gallery, featuring work by Theodoros Stamatogiannis and Risa Tsunegi.
08 April 2010
Atypical Root featured in special MiniSkinny Magazine - out 15 April
Fantastic news!
Over the past few weeks Atypical Root has been meeting regularly with the brain trust/design gurus at Central Station, and the outcome is a very exciting partnership!
We are please to announce that Atypical Root and the arts projects of Radius will be featured in a "Mini-Skinny", a special Central Station edition published and distributed by the Skinny, one of Scotland's premier Arts & Culture Magazines. This pocket sized booklet will give you a unique slice of our events (amongst others), and should hit the stands by the opening of Glasgow International Festival - the 15th of April 2010.
With only 10,000 of these handsome copies distributed nationally - be sure to get yours!
31 March 2010
Hot off the press!
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!
29 March 2010
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 @]
Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre [SECC] Covered Walkway, Glasgow, G3 8YW
Find this on the Map!
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 @]
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 @]
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
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 @]
Various locations along the Atypical Public Art Trail
See the full Atypical rout on the Map!
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
Olympia Playhouse, Orr Street facade
617 London Rd, Bridgeton G40 1NE
Find this on the Map!
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 @]
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 @]
Clydebrae Studios, Clydebrae Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G51 2AJ
Monday- Saturday 12pm-6pm (19/04-02/05/2010)
Find this on the map!
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
Glasgow Science Centre Atrium, 50 Pacific Quay, G51 1EA
Monday-Sunday 10am-5pm
Find this on the Map !
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
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