Sunday 2 May, 12-5pm Atypical Finale & Launch of the Govan Armada +++

Party time is here again! Atypical style.

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.

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.

New images from the trail

Jamie Cooper's "Nae Place" (illuminated nightly from 8-10 PM):

Atypical Root featured in the Glasgow Herald | 'Strange twists of artistry'

Krintin Innes of the Glasgow Herald included Atypical Root in the paper's Arts & Entreatment section this past Friday (April 23, 2010) in an article covering Glasgow International highlights. Mentioned artists include Shelton Walker, Jamie Cooper, Mhari Sharp and the Govan Graving Beacon by t s Beall, Ben Dembroski & Benjamin Rush.

"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

Jamie Cooper | Nae Place

Location:

The Ferry, Anderston Quay Broomielaw, Glasgow, G3 8BX
The work is situated on the Broomielaw opposite The Ferry on an area of overgrown grassland.
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Synopsis:

Located at 236 Broomielaw, opposite The Renfrew Ferry. The installation consists of several heavily distorted street lamps which form a fictional street. The NaePlace lights will be illuminated between 8pm and 10pm each night over the course of G.I. festival. The work will be shown later on this year in a solo exhibition for the Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine entitled "Wish you were here" contact harbourarts(at)north-ayrshire.gov.uk for more information.

Description:

This new work consists of six contorted and distorted streetlamps, inserted into wasteground to create the ghostly presence of a fictional street. The sculptures (actual steetlamps which the artist deconstructed then reassembled, and connected back to the National Grid) beam down light incessantly, illuminating little save their own broken forms.

Artist Statement:

My studio practice involves a constant re-examination and interference with the meaning we attribute to the many different objects and environments we encounter. I am interested in the human condition, I try to understand what brought us to be who we are, where we are, you know? What makes us and our understanding of ourselves and our reality? I constantly research areas such as the media, consumer culture, capitalism, history and politics, but other stuff too like social history, communities, family, sex, death, to find out what shapes how we treat each other as human beings. What shapes our boundaries. These components that come to shape our mental boundaries, how we perceive the world, end up shaping physical boundaries, such as countries and nationality. This whole notion of our mental understandings effecting the physical world is the basis for much of my work.

Artist Contact:

atypicalcooper-at-gmail.com [replace -at- with @]
www.fourskin.co.uk