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

Risa Tsunegi | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRTSUVWXYZ

Location:

David Dale Gallery
71 - 73 Brook Street, Bridgeton, G40 2QD
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Synopsis:

Responding to a new site-specific installation by Theodoros Stamatogiannis in the David Dale gallery, my work will be produced and installed in relation to the given space and his work.

Artist Statement:

My works address the relationship between force and form. Force and energy make the shape of an object. They are seemingly essential to any form in this world that is subject to gravity. Consequently I am fascinated by architecture because of the technically extreme usage of materials and the aspect of the function/functionless. It is the exploration of the interrelationship between architecture, force, form and space which informs my work and has inspired the evolution of my practice to encompass both two and three dimensions.

Artist Contact:

info-at-daviddalegallery.co.uk [substitute -at- for @]
www.risatsunegi.com
www.daviddalegallery.co.uk

Anthony Schrag | Untitled

Location:

The Ferry, Anderston Quay Broomielaw, Broomielaw, G3 8BX

Sunday 25th April 2010, 3pm-9pm
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Synopsis:

A wee interactive event that is humorous take on the idea of a "slip-road"at the Broom. Fun and Art. Together. At last!

Description:

Schrag will create a new site-responsive/performative intervention to coincide with the Torrent event at the Renfrew Ferry.
Shrag: “I have always been interested in the phenomenological, and my work always considers the physical sensations of the body at the core rather than a foundation of intellect and/or schooling. The work often takes the form of solo performances, interactive installations, publications, interventions, sculptures as well as a variety of other strategies to explore these notions. I am not a particularly good artist, but I do have a lot of fun. I'm not sure if admitting that makes me a better artist, or worse.”

Artist Statement:

I have always been interested in the phenomenological, and my work always considers the physical sensations of the body at the core rather than a foundation of intellect and/or schooling. The work often takes the form of solo performances, interactive installations, publications, interventions, sculptures as well as a variety of other strategies to explore these notions.

I am not a particularly good artist, but I do have a lot of fun. I'm not sure if admitting that makes me a better artist, or worse.

Either way, I look to subvert an expected physical experience by altering how the social, political and creative intersect in the hopes that an alternate reading of a physical experience will give birth to new meanings or new knowledge or shifts in perception.

When working this way, I am aiming to return the body to the locus of the art experience, rather than any abstracted notions that rely so heavily on training, culture, class and education. Some of my ridiculous projects have included falling walls, sticky floors, firing myself out of giant catapults, kidnapping city councillors, climbing buildings and blowing things up. The impulse for this type of work comes from an interest in theories related to socially engaged practices and inviting a wide spectrum of the public into a shared, cultural debate.

I have received some awards, had some shows and been on a bunch of residencies, and not all in one country. The artist Nathalie De Brie once referred to my practice as 'Fearless'. The writer Marjorie Celona once said: ‘Anthony, you have a lot of ideas. Not all of them are good.’

Artist Contact:

anthony.schrag-at-gmail.com [replace -at- with @]
www.anthonyschrag.com

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Alessandro Gioiello | momentary monument for a forgotten story

Location:

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

This work is a temporary unmonumental monument to the folk memory of a forgotten fact belonging to the private history of a Glaswegian citizen. Since the history of each individual contributes to delineate the history and build of a community, I want to underline how important and necessary every action and acting-out of each person is. A painted reproduction of a tin tray made around 1825, probably as a retirement gift to an office bearer of the Friendly Association of Cotton Spinners, and the three-dimensional reproduction of a posy of cotton flowers (made of recycled materials and dust) will be shown as testimony of a meeting point, convergence of two distant times and realities.

Artist Statement:

My work is based on re-reading and re-interpretation of symbols and signs belonging to the history of art, collective unconscious, high and low culture and personal events, stories, as well. Each subject I analyze assumes the features of a simulacrum, an ideal starting point to reach unexpected connections between different fields, meanings and times.

Artist Contact:

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

Shelton Walker | ringolevio

Location:

Glasgow Green, Drying Green
Daily from 10AM - 5PM (aprox)
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Synopsis:

ringolevio explores the transition of space, and how technology has the power to both create and remove social and communication boundaries. Specifically, the history of clothes laundering in Glasgow is looked at, and relationships drawn between how we do laundry today versus laundry fifty, one hundred, or over a couple hundred years ago. Situated in Glasgow Green’s drying green, a once busy center for the domestic work of women and point of congregation and exchange for the community, which now lies unused, a symbolic monument to times past. ringolevio takes its form through a sound and sculpture intervention, creating a physical space within the drying green for reflection. The soundscape created refers to the contemporary hum of domestic processes, today conducted mostly in solitude. Technology can bring communities closer together, yet it can also create greater isolation between its members.

Artist Statement:

Shelton Walker’s practice explores the histories and boundaries between communities through site-specific projects, as well as studio based sculptures and paintings. Particular emphasis is placed on how communication structures are influenced, aided or hindered by socially-constructed differences. Shelton was born in Virginia; received a BFA from Pratt Institute, New York City; and is a MFA candidate at Glasgow School of Art.

Artist Contact:

Shelton.Walker-at-gmail.com [replace -at- with @]
http://sheltonwalker.wordpress.com

Gallacher & Warren | Future Proof: Ambition, Optimism

Location:

The Glasgow Science Centre / BBC courtyard - railings of the river Clyde
50 Pacific Quay, G51 1EA
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Synopsis:

The words Ambition and Optimism are taken from the essay by urban theorists David Parker & Paul Long will be attached to the railings of the river Clyde. The letters of these text works will be constructed from recycled wooden boards and clad with aluminum foil. The shiny silver foil will, quite literally, reflect the building in the surrounding area.

“... The skyline of a city traces the visual signature of its identity. It offers an immediate reading of its ambition, modernity and novelty through which economic, social and aesthetic meanings are signified...both as its is and how it might be.” Extract from essay by urban theorists David Parker & Paul Long

Artist Statement:

Brought together by the curatorial team PLACE Projects, Gallacher & Warren is the creative collaboration of Glasgow based artists Kate Gallacher and Ric Warren. With a shared interest in architecture and town planning, we were asked to research and make artwork collaboratively for the 2009 New Work Scotland Programme (NWSP) at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. For this project, entitled FUTUREPROOF, we began to explore current trends in the revitalisation of urban landscapes, heavily focusing our research on the redeveloped areas of Glasgow’s river Clyde. In addition to exploring the ‘language of regeneration’, we created drawings and small sculptures inspired by architectural models, clad with various reflective silver materials, such as aluminium foil, in order to reference a vernacular of contemporary architecture associated with ‘urban reform’. These we then exhibited using a method of display associated with architectural trade shows.

Artist Contact:

Ric Warren  [replace -at- with @]
www.gallacherandwarren.blogspot.com
www.ricwarren.blogspot.com
www.kgallacher.blogspot.com