Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary visual art Exhibitions Performances Events
9th Edition
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Glasgow international 24 April –– 10 May 2020
Admission Free
I am delighted to introduce the ninth edition of Glasgow International, Scotland’s biennial festival that celebrates contemporary visual art from artists living and working right here in Glasgow as well as introducing new work by artists from around the world. Glasgow is a city where art is risk-taking and internationally significant, and Glasgow International plays a vital role in supporting artists and audiences, providing a unique platform to showcase the city and its visual art offering at its very best. Glasgow International has a particularly important role to play in nurturing Glasgow’s extraordinary artistic ecology. In 2020, this has been supported for the first time through a grant from the Scottish Government’s Festivals EXPO fund, enabling the festival to champion artistic excellence and provide an international platform for more of Glasgow’s artists. This year, as part of Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters 2020, Glasgow International is navigating the Forth and Clyde Canal, where a new film by Glasgowbased artist Alberta Whittle is a particular highlight. GI 2020 takes place at a moment when Scotland’s place in the world could not feel more significant, when international dialogue and exchange are vital to maintaining the dynamism and inclusiveness of our nation. I look forward to being inspired by artists bringing critical thinking and insight to these complex political times.
Glasgow is a city where the production and dissemination of world-class contemporary art is part of our life-blood. It’s built into the DNA of the city. Audiences are hungry for the ambitious and challenging work that is being made in studios, workshops and galleries in every part of the city. Glasgow International is the critical moment when we invite artists and visitors from around the world to join us in celebrating this extraordinary and inspiring community, when we showcase Scottish contemporary art to the world. As outlined in Glasgow’s Culture Plan currently under consultation, Glasgow International is a key component of the city’s vibrant cultural ecology, directly contributing to the future health, prosperity and sustainability of our city and its people. The exhibitions also allow us to experience Glasgow’s cultural institutions in different ways. Watch out for GI in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvin Hall, Tramway and GoMA among many others. Glasgow International is also building on work taking place across the city. In 2019, Glasgow has supported an artist in residence in every ward, echoing our ambition to ensure that every member of our community has access to great art and culture. Councillor David McDonald Depute Leader of Glasgow City Council, Chair of Glasgow Life
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Welcome to the ninth edition of Glasgow International. The theme for 2020 is Attention and the festival is a chance to see what artists both in Glasgow and across the world are turning their – and our – attention to right now. So often today we are glued to our phones and other screens that we become beholden to the feed in one form or another, whether it be social media or news. This festival is a chance to reflect on that – to take a step back and appreciate how artists invite us to look at the world in different ways, to see what we might be missing. To pay something attention is to bestow the value of our concentration and time upon it. To attend to someone or something is to express care. This could be an act of love, but equally an act of futility, as in the case of Sisyphus pushing his rock up a mountain. Attention is both a theme but also a way of looking, thinking and approaching the world and the work of artists – with effort, depth and over a span of time. It offers a framework or methodology for thinking through some of the urgencies of today; today’s urgencies that are likely to remain tomorrow’s. The festival is a special moment, a crescendo in the creative rhythm of the city – it is a burst of energy, but one that also offers opportunities to pause and take stock. It is also the sum of an extraordinary collaborative effort, and would not happen without the practical and moral support of colleagues and friends in Glasgow, Scotland, and further afield. Although there are too many people to mention here, particular acknowledgment must be given to the festival’s Advisory Board chaired by Leonie Bell, and our key funders: Glasgow Life, Creative Scotland, the Scottish Government and EventScotland, whose ongoing investments have allowed GI to become the internationally recognised event that it is. We’d like to extend particular thanks to colleagues at Glasgow Museums and Tramway for their support and partnership in helping to realise commissions and exhibitions. Also, sincere thanks to those funders who have made contributions in 2020 including Art Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, SWG3, British Council, Outset, Henry Moore Foundation and the Bridget Riley Art Foundation, as well as Sigrid and Stephen Kirk, and other individual patrons and sponsors who have given so generously to this festival edition. This is by no means an exhaustive list and I would urge people to explore the pages of this guide and the acknowledgements section at the back to appreciate the extensive community of engagement that enables a festival like GI to happen. We are hugely indebted to Eoin Dara, Hanne Mugaas and Alberta Whittle, the selectors for the Across the City programme, who approached an almost impossible task with insight and consideration. However, above all, our thanks must go to the artists and the artistic community of Glasgow for their unique and extraordinary work that must be the focus of all our attention. Richard Parry Director Glasgow International
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Visiting Gi Glasgow International takes place every two years in traditional and alternative art venues across the city. Established in 2005, it both commissions artists based in Scotland and internationally through the Director’s Programme and selects proposals from artists, curators and organisations in Glasgow through the Across the City programme. All exhibitions and events in the GI programme are free to attend, however some events require advance booking. Please check individual listings for opening times and booking information. The majority of exhibitions are open from 24 April to 10 May. Some events are oneoff or only happen a few times – these can be identified in listings by looking out for the hollow circle. Find out about getting to Glasgow and getting around on pages 76 and 77. Glasgow International Hub Centre for Contemporary Arts Find us at our city centre hub in the Centre for Contemporary Arts foyer from 10am every day of the festival. See page 24 for more details.
There is a large print version of this brochure available at the GI Hub at the Centre for Contemporary Arts. Content Notes We have a document containing content notes indicating any potentially distressing subject matter for exhibitions and events in the programme. See glasgowinternational.org/ access
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Access Exhibitions that are part of the GI programme take place in venues across the city. We have used the following symbols to indicate access and facilities at each venue. These symbols can be found in individual listings beneath the venue address.
Good Access: The venue has good wheelchair access with level access and/or lifts to access upper floors.
Limited Access: Some parts of the venue are accessible for wheelchair users, other areas can only be accessed via stairs (see the GI Access Guide for more info).
Not Accessible: The venue can only be accessed via stairs. Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors. Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair-accessible toilet. Gender Neutral: The venue has toilets not separated by gender or sex. Hearing Loop: The venue has a hearing loop available. Refreshments: There is a café or somewhere you can purchase refreshments. We have also produced an extended GI Access Guide with further information about accessibility and facilities available at festival venues. See glasgowinternational.org/access The GI Access Guide also includes information about Autism Hours and BSL tours which are available for some exhibitions in the programme. For further information and if you have any queries about the above, please contact info@glasgowinternational.org
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Support
If you like what you see at the festival please consider making a donation of any amount from £5 to support our work. All donations directly support our programme. Make a donation via our website at glasgowinternational.org/support
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Thu 23 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Discover works from Lubaina Himid, Charlotte Prodger, Tai Shani, and new commissions for GI 2020 from France-Lise McGurn and Georgina Starr online at glasgowinternational.org or on display in the GI Hub at the CCA throughout the festival. Lubaina Himid, Breaking in Breaking out Breaking up Breaking down (2018), limited edition available in GI Shop
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Opening Weekend
Join us for a weekend of exhibition openings, talks, performances, evening events and parties. Check out GI’s website for a full schedule of exhibition openings and events taking place over the opening weekend. All are free but some require booking. Key opening weekend highlights include:
Thu 23 April
Fri 24 April
Sun 26 April
Glasgow International x DRAF Opening Party
Panel Discussion
Performance: Alberta Whittle
A performance programme presented by GI and David Roberts Art Foundation with additional performances presented by Civic Room
A discussion event including artists exhibiting as part of the Director’s Programme
SWG3 9pm – late
Reid Auditorium, Reid Building, 164 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ 12pm – 1pm
Free, but booking essential via glasgowinternational.org
Free, but booking essential via glasgowinternational.org GI Warehouse Party SWG3 Doors: 10pm Please note that this party is organised and hosted by SWG3. Tickets, prices and details on how to book can be found at swg3.tv
Sat 25 April Panel Discussion A discussion event including artists participating in Glasgow International’s Across the City programme Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street G2 3JD 12.30pm – 2pm Free, but booking essential via glasgowinternational.org
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Join us for a newly commissioned performance work by Glasgow-based artist Alberta Whittle. The performance accompanies her new work created especially for GI. See page 33 for details. The Engine Works 23-25 Lochburn Road G20 9AE 12pm Free, but booking essential via glasgowinternational.org
Sun 10 May Final Day Performances and Party Join us for a programme of activity on the last day of GI 2020, including a performance by Jimmy Robert at SWG3, presented in association with The Hunterian, as well as other events. See the website for further details and booking information. SWG3 7pm – late Free, but booking essential via glasgowinternational.org
Glasgow International x DRAF Opening Party . Lina Lapelyte Paul Maheke Nina Beier + Hubris presented by Civic Room SWG3 100 Eastvale Place G3 8QG Thu 23 April, 9pm – late Free ticketed event booking essential via glasgowinternational.org
Glasgow International have partnered with David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) to present a performance programme to launch the festival. The event draws on a shared history of developing and staging dynamic performance work and incorporates work by internationally recognised artists responding to the festival’s theme of Attention. Taking place across spaces at SWG3, the programme includes Paul Maheke, who is showing a new performance commissioned by The Renaissance Society in Chicago, . Lina Lapelyte, fresh from winning the 2019 Venice Biennale . . Golden Lion (with collaborators Rugile Barzdžiukaite and . Vaiva Grainyte), and Nina Beier who is presenting an extract of a major new performance commission taking place at MO.CO. in Montpellier in April. Each artist is engaging with different registers of attention throughout the evening, whether through the flickering presence of dancers, plays on folk, pop and opera, or the vulnerability of a changing world. The presentation at GI marks the beginning of a new phase in DRAF’s work, collaborating across the UK with institutional partners to share their work more broadly and to wider audiences. . . Supported by Juste Kostikovaite at Lithuanian Culture Institute and Lithuanian Embassy in the United Kingdom, and Institut Français du Royaume-Uni Drinks sponsor: Theodore Gin As part of the GI 2020 opening events at SWG3, Civic Room presents Hubris, a programme of performances with artists Christian Noelle Charles, Liv Fontaine, William Joys and Wassili Widmer. See page 49 for details. Nina Beier, The Complete Works (2010) in Performance Year Zero, Tate Tanks, Tate Modern London (2012) Dancer: Ellen Van Shuylenburch, courtesy Tate Modern, London
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Includes New Commissions
Director’s Programme
Nep Sidhu An Immeasurable Melody, Medicine For A Nightmare
Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) Royal Exchange Square G1 3AH Fri 24 April – Sun 4 October Mon – Wed & Sat, 10am – 5pm Thu, 10am – 8pm Fri & Sun, 11am – 5pm
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Nep Sidhu with Nicholas Galanin, Axes in Polyrhythm from the series When My Drums Come Knocking, They Watch (2018) Courtesy of the artist
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For his first solo exhibition in Europe, Canadian artist Nep Sidhu presents a body of work embedded in Sikh metaphysics and histories to explore relationships between memory, memorial and the divine. At once personal yet also forged within a strong sense of community, the work is inspired by ancestral bonds and present-day resonances, bringing forward a sense of ritual, kinship and seva (selfless service). Sidhu’s finely honed works incorporate a wide variety of media including tapestry, metal, earth and video. Sidhu merges his artistic practice with his musical interests and inspirations, including jazz musician
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and composer Alice Coltrane who in later years became a swamini, or Hindu ascetic. Running throughout is the idea of deep rhythms and a sense of both the spiritual and the earthly. While the works invite multiple perspectives and readings, at their core is a desire for healing and awakening; call and response. Supported by Canada Council for the Arts, The High Commission of Canada in the UK and Henry Moore Foundation Part of #CanadaGoesGlasgow, a year-long programme promoting the next generation of inspiring Canadian talent showcased across the city of Glasgow in 2020
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02 Transmission 28 King Street G1 5QP Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 11am – 7pm
Péju Alatise, Ana Beatriz Almeida, Ag Anara, Shai Andrade, Melvin Edwards, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi Kalunga In collaboration with Ana Beatriz Almeida, Transmission co-curates an international group exhibition that centres on Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe’s analysis of necropolitics – the ways in which death and violence may be used to exert power over the living. Kalunga is a presentation of artworks produced by non-hegemonic identities, located methodologically between anthropology and art criticism. The proposal is to activate global and local memories through cognitive schema contra to the hegemonic logic of Western imperialism. Supported by Glasgow International Péju Alatise, Water No Get Enemy (ongoing)
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03 Glasgow Print Studio Trongate 103 G1 5HD Fri 24 April – Sat 30 May Mon – Wed & Fri – Sun, 10am – 6pm Thu, 10am – 8pm
Seher Shah Argument from Silence Glasgow Print Studio presents Argument from Silence, Seher Shah’s first solo exhibition in Scotland. Shah’s practice combines her experiences in the fields of art and architecture to explore the poetics and fractures of space. Bringing together graphite drawings, etchings, woodcuts, photogravures and sculpture, the exhibition reflects Shah’s interest in architectural abstraction and the erased and rewritten histories of specific architectural sites.
Seher Shah, Unit Object (gate) (2014) Published at the Glasgow Print Studio and printed by Stuart Duffin. Courtesy the artist, Green Art Gallery and Nature Morte
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04 Street Level Photoworks Trongate 103 G1 5HD Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Wed & Fri – Sat, 10am – 5pm Thu, 10am – 8pm Sun, 12pm – 5pm Mon 11 May – Sun 28 June Tue – Sat, 10am – 5pm Sun, 12pm – 5pm
Sekai Machache, Awuor Onyango Body of Land Body of Land explores African diasporic femininities in Scotland and Kenya, through the work of Sekai Machache and Awuor Onyango, who collaborated in a residency exchange produced by Fòcas Scotland. Working across photography and other media, Zimbabwe-born, Dundee-based Machache engages with the psychological sensation that one’s identity is divided into multiple parts. Nairobi-based Onyango takes an experimental approach that often results in mixed media pieces and installations based upon film and photography. Sekai Machache, White Aspect (2018) Courtesy of the artist
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05 Glasgow Project Room 1st floor Trongate 103 G1 5HD Tue – Sun, 12pm – 5pm
Aideen Doran, Beth Dynowski, Susannah Stark Songs for Work Songs for Work brings together moving image, sound, performance, poetry, and installation by three Glasgow-based artists – Aideen Doran, Beth Dynowski and Susannah Stark – to examine the effects of work on subjectivity, community and wider social, political and ethical imaginaries. Being about work, the exhibition is also necessarily about time – the absence or abundance of it – and about the spaces between violence and reverie. Performed by Penny Chivas and Zoe Katsilerou Supported by Glasgow International
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Nils McDiarmid, Leslie Thompson, Robin Wise It’s in the detail It’s in the detail highlights three artists with much more in common than their medium. Nils McDiarmid, Leslie Thompson, and Robin Wise all make drawings, mostly using black ink on paper. They also share a love of intricate pattern and line in creating works that imbue recognisable images with new energy and life. Thompson is also undertaking a three-day residency in the gallery, during which visitors can watch the artist drawing live. For details of when to visit Thompson in residence, please visit glasgowinternational.org
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Urara Tsuchiya, untitled (2018) Photo: Urara Tsuchiya. Courtesy of the artist
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07 The Brunswick Hotel 108 Brunswick Street G1 1TF Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Thu, 1pm – 5pm Fri – Sat, 6pm – 9pm Sun, 1pm – 5pm
Méabh Breathnach, Jack Brennan, Paul Kindersley, Susannah Stark, Mimei Thompson, Ben Toms, Urara Tsuchiya Give us a Meow For Give us a Meow, artist Urara Tsuchiya has created the interior of an imaginary hotel room frozen in time and installed it within a real Glasgow hotel. Tsuchiya has also produced new site-specific ceramic and textile works for the installation, which replace the standard hotel fittings and amenities. On a monitor are film works by Tsuchiya and artist Ben Toms and there is also a programme of performances by invited artists. For details of performance times, please visit glasgowinternational.org Supported by Glasgow International
08 South Block 60-64 Osborne Street G1 5QH Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm Sat – Sun, 11am – 5pm
Douglas Coupland, Garnet Hertz, Hyphen-Labs, Michael Mandiberg, Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Addie Wagenknecht, Alan Warburton Sleep Mode Are you living your life in sleep mode – never fully on or off? This international group exhibition of media art addresses our diminished capacity to pay attention in a world based on a ceaseless cycle of production and consumption. In Sleep Mode, playful and funny art works, installed in a co-working space, explore ideas relating to surveillance, the gig economy, inescapable connectivity, and the balance between public and private. Supported by the High Commission of Canada in the UK, Somerset House, University of Glasgow Information Studies and the Digital Departures Lab Curated by Sarah Cook Part of #CanadaGoesGlasgow, a year-long programme promoting the next generation of inspiring Canadian talent showcased across the city of Glasgow in 2020 Centre and North
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09 Patricia Fleming Gallery South Block 60-64 Osborne Street G1 5QH Fri 24 April – Tue 31 May Wed – Fri, 12pm – 5pm Sat, 12pm – 4pm
Ilana Halperin Excerpts from the Library Excerpts From The Library at Patricia Fleming, Glasgow and There Is A Volcano Behind My House at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, bring together an expansive new body of work by Ilana Halperin on both sites. Halperin is assembling a quietly urgent, international narrative of the history of the earth, rooted in her own life, alongside local human and geologic history, featuring sculptures, textile, drawing and off-site performance.
Ilana Halperin, Sakurajima, 31 Oct 2019 (2019) Photo: Ilana Halperin. Courtesy the artist and Patricia Fleming, Glasgow
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10 The Briggait 141 Bridgegate G1 5HZ (via Clyde Street rear entrance) Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
susan pui san lok 7x7 7x7 marks the Scottish exhibition debut of London-based artist and writer, susan pui san lok. Incorporating site-specific installation, sound and sculpture, the exhibition foregrounds the artist’s enquiry into the history and folklore around witchcraft, and themes of power, place, memory, voice and witnessing. Inspired by local stories and sites including Pollok House and the Mugdock Park Drowning Ponds, 7x7 seeks to connect narratives of persecution and resistance. Curated by Mother Tongue Supported by Glasgow International
susan pui san lok, Score for Voices (2019)
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11 The Modern Institute Aird’s Lane 3 Aird’s Lane G1 5HU
Eva Rothschild Inside The Modern Institute’s gallery on Aird’s Lane and expanding onto the green space outside are new works by Eva Rothschild that extend the artist’s interest in reinvigorating conventional sculpture. In 2019, Rothschild represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. Rothschild’s aim with these new works is to create multiple spaces for contemplation, conversation and collective engagement.
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Eva Rothschild, Kosmos (2018) Installation view, ACCA, Melbourne Photo: Andrew Curtis. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
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12 The Modern Institute Osborne Street 14-20 Osborne Street G1 5QN Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Wed & Fri, 10am – 6pm Thu, 10am – 8pm Sat – Sun, 12pm – 5pm
Luke Fowler Two 16mm films by Luke Fowler are on show at The Modern Institute’s gallery on Osborne Street. Fowler’s film portraits often hinge on neglected public figures or movements which have been marginalised, erased or misrepresented by contemporary culture. These two new works mark a turn away from this previous focus: both take as their subject matter the domestic archives of letters and notes created by the artist’s parents.
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13 5 Florence Street G5 0YX Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Wed & Fri – Sun, 11am – 5pm Thu, 11am – 8pm Mon 11 May – Sun 24 May Mon – Sun, 11am – 5pm Opening performances Fri 24 April, 6pm – 8pm Jeanne Tullen, Nora Turato Closing performances Sun 10 May, 5pm – 6pm Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli
Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen, Nora Turato Too Much Too Much reflects upon performativity labelled as excessive or disruptive, questioning the representation of the body in a patriarchal society. Curated by Giulia Gregnanin and produced by Sarah L. Smith, the project features interventions from Adam Christensen, SAGG Napoli, Jeanne Tullen, and Nora Turato. Over the course of Glasgow International, four evening events present performative practices of disobedience that exceed norms and expectations and open new possibilities for subjectivity. Venue partner: Urban Office Curatorial supporter: Resonance Capital Supported by Glasgow International With thanks to Michael Murphy and Bal Kalirai
Adam Christensen, I’m Not Done with You Yet (2019) Installation view at Goldsmiths CCA. Photo: Andy Stagg
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13 5 Florence Street G5 0YX Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Wed & Fri – Sun, 10am – 5pm Thu, 10am – 7pm
New York-based artist, writer, and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed is known for work that takes an experimental approach to narrating black experience. Working across a range of media, Rasheed often conceives exhibitions as pedagogical experiences with the power to explore conflicting histories, hidden narratives, archives, memory, and public space. Rasheed is showing newly developed work following a recent residency in Glasgow. Supported by Glasgow International Curated by Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, How to Suffer Politely (And Other Etiquette) (2014-present) Courtesy of the artist and Transmission Gallery, 2016
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14 Koppe Astner 36-38 Coburg Street G5 9JF Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Tue – Sun, 12pm – 6pm Mon 11 May – Tue 30 June Wed – Sat, 12pm – 6pm
15 86 Maxwell Street G1 4EQ Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Wed, 12pm – 5pm Thu, 12pm – 7pm Fri – Sun, 12pm – 5pm
Laura Aldridge, Leanne Ross, Judith Scott The Outside is Inside Everything We Make The Outside is Inside Everything We Make is a group exhibition conceived by Glasgow-based artist Laura Aldridge. Alongside new sculptural works by Aldridge, the exhibition includes hand-painted posters composed of overheard elements of conversation by Leanne Ross and objects methodically wrapped in layer upon layer of fibre by Judith Scott (1943 – 2005). The exhibition offers a way of exploring power and empowerment beyond that of established structures of experience.
Erika Silverman, Raymond Strachan, Debbie Young Sex Club Uncover hidden layers of Glasgow history at 86 Maxwell Street, previously home to Legs and Co. strip club. Featuring work by Erika Silverman, Raymond Strachan, and Debbie Young, whose diverse practices span painting, sculpture, film and textiles, Sex Club aims to reveal the building’s past narratives, partly still visible if you look closely enough. The exhibition provokes discussion about sex, public health, queer spaces, and intimacy within an urban context. Supported by Glasgow International
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Laura Aldridge, PHYSICAL CULTURE: Raise your vibration and stick this up where it will do some good IRL (2019) Courtesy of the artist and Koppe Astner, Glasgow
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16 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 232-242 St Vincent Street G2 5RJ Fri 24 April – Fri 1 May Mon – Fri, 9am – 6pm Sat – Sun, 10am – 6pm Mon 4 May – Sun 10 May Mon – Fri, 9am – 6pm
17 Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street G2 3JD Thu 23 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Annie Crabtree Tell me, how do I feel? Dual-screen moving image work Tell me, how do I feel? challenges the positioning of people as unreliable witnesses of their own bodies. Grounded in artist Annie Crabtree’s own experience of ill health and hospitalisation, the work collages together personal testimony to critique the power dynamics of medical practice. The work is on show inside the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, alongside objects from the college’s collection. Supported by Glasgow International, Hope Scott Trust and Creative Scotland
Glasgow International Hub Find us at our city-centre hub in the Centre for Contemporary Arts foyer from 10am every day of the festival. Grab a coffee from Saramago Café Bar, plan your visit with our guides and maps, meet other festival visitors and artists, and chat to our team of friendly volunteers who can tell you about events, recommend exhibitions, and help you navigate the festival. There is a selection of GI's editions available to view and purchase.
Café Saramago food served 12pm – 9pm daily
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17 Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street G2 3JD Fri 24 April – Sun 07 June Mon – Sat, 11am – 6pm Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Arjuna Neuman Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s latest film, Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum, continues their interest in reimagining histories of knowledge away from Eurocentric and colonial origins. The film gathers a variety of examples where subjectivity is unbound from the body alone, and rebound to the world. It scales between the cultural, organic, quantum and cosmic – all the while tracking the element of earth through its many forms and facets.
Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva, 4 Waters, film still (2019) Courtesy of the artists
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17 Centre for Contemporary Arts Intermedia Gallery 350 Sauchiehall Street G2 3JD Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Wed & Fri – Sun, 11am – 5pm Thu, 11am – 7pm
Kate Davis, Charlie Hammond, Hayley Tompkins Termite Tapeworm Fungus Moss Termite Tapeworm Fungus Moss is an exhibition of new work by three Glasgow-based artists – Kate Davis, Charlie Hammond, and Hayley Tompkins – which explores their shared interest in the commonplace. Although working across a diverse range of media, these artists each begin with what is close at hand. Their practices are enmeshed with their everyday lives and they share a desire to examine, unpick, and re-imagine the minutiae of their daily experiences. Supported by Glasgow International Hayley Tompkins, Upgrade II (2019) Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute, Glasgow
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17 Centre for Contemporary Arts Theatre Space 350 Sauchiehall Street G2 3JD Available online 24 hours, Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May at glasgowinternational.org Live event: Sun 10 May, 7.30pm – 9pm
Adrien Hester, Elizabeth Murphy What’s He Doing Here? This semi-fictional serialised radio play has been written especially for Glasgow International 2020. Every day during the festival, Glasgow-based artists Adrien Hester and Elizabeth Murphy are releasing a new fifteen-minute episode that asks vital questions about the relationship between the arts and the city. Paying close attention to underrepresented people and enclaves of queer, What’s He Doing Here? combines field recordings with methods of improvisation to create a continuous chorus of diverse voices. Supported by Glasgow International
17 Centre for Contemporary Arts Theatre Space 350 Sauchiehall Street G2 3JD Thu 30 April 3pm – 6pm
D. Graham Burnett, Francis McKee, ESTAR(SER) collective, Joanna Fiduccia, Katherine MacBride, Hermione Spriggs Vigils and Vigilance: Attention, Duration, Subjectivity Vigils and Vigilance is a day-long symposium at CCA. Featuring talks, discussion, a performance lecture and participatory workshop, the symposium delves into multiple conceptions of attention. The programme has been influenced both by pioneering Scottish physiologist, Norman H. Mackworth, who created the first apparatus for measuring vigilance in the 1940s, and also by the spiritual and memorial power of the vigil, which has traditionally linked attention to waiting and time. Supported by Glasgow International
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18 Glasgow School of Art Reid Auditorium 164 Renfrew Street G3 6RQ Thu 7 May – Fri 8 May Thu – Fri, 10am – 5pm Free, ticketed event, advance booking required. glasgowinternational.org
Yuko Hasegawa, Fumihiko Sumitomo Mutual Mirror This two-day walking workshop is led by internationally prominent Japanese curators Yuko Hasegawa and Fumihiko Sumitomo. Hasegawa is artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, while Sumitomo is director of Arts Maebashi and associate professor at Tokyo University of Arts. While moving through the city and inviting conversations with practitioners in Scotland, the workshop introduces the curators’ practices and provides opportunities for open-ended discussion and mutual questioning. A collaboration between the Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow and The Drouth, supported by Daiwa Foundation
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19 Graduate Bursary Civic House 26 Civic Street G4 9RH Group walk: Sun 3 May, 7.30am (meet at Civic House)
Iman Tajik Bordered Miles Bordered Miles is a day-long group walk from Glasgow city centre to Dungavel House immigration removal centre. Conceived by Iman Tajik, the walk draws attention to the movement of bodies as a natural right of any species, but one frequently constrained by multiple borders, both visible and invisible. The walk culminates in a group action at Dungavel. There is also an accompanying exhibition of documentation, with further opportunities for conversation, at Civic House.
Exhibition: 24 April – 10 May, Mon – Sun, 12pm – 4pm
In collaboration with Deveron Projects
Discussion: Wed 6 May, 5.30pm
Supported by Glasgow International
Awarded the Glasgow International 2020 Graduate Bursary
Iman Tajik, A to B: II (2018)
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19 Civic House 26 Civic Street G4 9RH Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Furmaan Ahmed, Ratty Byebye, Sorcha Clelland, Flint McDonald, Benaissa Majeri, Dylan Moore, Davinder Singh, Sgàire Wood Stepping Out Bringing together the work of eight artists, Stepping Out shines a spotlight on Glasgow’s diverse queer performance scene. By presenting an array of costumes that would usually only be seen from a distance on a club stage, and allowing visitors to take the time to view them up close, the exhibition offers the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the thought, care and labour that underpins queer performance. Curated by Love Unlimited Supported by Glasgow International Ratty Byebye, Take Me Somewhere Sticky (2018) Photo: Tiu Makkonen
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19 Civic House 26 Civic Street G4 9RH Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Andrew Sim Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead Often small in scale but rich in narrative power, the works of Glasgow-based artist Andrew Sim traverse the lines between personal and collective queerness. Working predominantly in pastel on paper, Sim brings together mythical creatures, ancient archetypes, and pop culture references to create worlds that are at once familiar and unsettling. The resulting works address issues around mental health while situating queer histories within a variety of occult traditions. Supported by Glasgow International
Andrew Sim, New Sodom under a God-Proof Space Dome, 3000AD (2019) Photo: Malcolm Cochrane
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20 Navvies’ Barge Applecross Wharf G4 9SP Thur 23 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm For activity times and further programme information visit glasgowinternational.org
Canal Programme Developed in partnership with Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow International’s Canal Programme includes a major new commission by Glasgow-based artist Alberta Whittle, exhibited as installations in both The Engine Works and a studio space at National Theatre of Scotland. Whittle is showing both her new commission, alongside the existing video works sorry, not sorry (2018) and what sound does the black atlantic make (2019) and sculptural works. Further related activities are taking place on and around the canal including workshops with local community groups, talks, guided tours, performances, and film screenings. The programme offers visitors the opportunity to discover important overlooked stories relating to the industrial legacy of Glasgow’s canals. Information about the project is available to collect from Navvies’ Barge, a canal boat moored at the Applecross Wharf, with canal boat tours available on selected dates in the festival. For more details please check glasgowinternational.org Supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, EventScotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters 2020, Glasgow Connected Arts Network and The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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The Engine Works 23-25 Lochburn Road G20 9AE Thu 23 – Sun 26 April Thu – Sun, 10am – 6pm Performance: Sun 26 April, 12pm Free, but booking essential via glasgowinternational.org
22 National Theatre of Scotland Rockvilla 125 Craighall Road G4 9TL
Alberta Whittle business as usual: hostile environment Alberta Whittle’s new work is informed by collective thinking, making and discussion with women from Maryhill Integration Network’s Joyous Choir and groups from Carnival Arts. Whittle’s new film, business as usual: hostile environment, explores the ways that political and ecological climates shape one another. Dispersed across three interconnected sites along Glasgow’s Forth and Clyde Canal, the work utilises the physical canal infrastructure as both a literal and poetic route through which to reflect on the role of waterways in the voluntary and involuntary movement of people. Through creating a movable and mutating encounter, the project highlights the dual nature of environment as a set of conditions capable of both hostility and nurture.
Alberta Whittle, sorry, not sorry (2018) Courtesy of the artist
Tue 27 April – Sat 9 May Mon – Fri, 10am – 6pm Sat, 10am – 5.30pm Closed, Sun 3 and Fri 8 May
Please note the two different venue locations and dates for this exhibition.
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23 Springburn District Library and Museum Atlas Square 179 Ayr Street G21 4BW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm Thu, 10am – 8pm
Adelita Husni-Bey, Gabecare (Rachel Adams, Tessa Lynch), G.O.D.S. (Ashanti Harris, Letitia Pleiades), Winnie Herbstein, Katerina Konarovská, Harriet Rose Morley, Katie Shannon, Tara Marshall-Tierney You’re Never Done You’re Never Done is a group exhibition featuring works by local and international artists that explores the invisible narratives of labour within our cities. Inspired by Glasgow’s public wash houses (known as ‘Steamies’), the exhibition transforms the disused Springburn Public Library and Museum into a collaborative co-working space created to address the gendered division of labour and visibility within working-class communities. Curated by Thomas Abercromby and Katerina Sidorova Supported by Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Glasgow International, Hope Scott Trust and NG Homes Harriet Rose Morley, Self Care in Self-Build (2019) Courtesy of Hotel Maria Kapel
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24 4 Murano Street Maryhill G20 7SD Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 12pm – 5pm
Alistair Dearie, Lotte Gertz, Lorna Macintyre Exercises in Style Exercises in Style brings together work by three artists who share an interest in what art historian Norman Bryson has described as the ‘slow, almost geological rhythm’ of simple utensils, in contrast to the instant obsolescence of complex technologies. Taking place in Alistair Dearie’s pottery studio, the exhibition expands the notion of still life through photography, sculptural installations, ceramic objects and painting – and the slow process of building relations between them. Supported by Glasgow International
25 Oakgrove Primary School 20 St Peter’s Street G4 9PW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Fri, 3pm – 7pm Sat – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Leontios Toumpouris Palimpsest of voices Leontios Toumpouris presents Palimpsest of voices, a new site-responsive work installed in the Assembly Hall of Oakgrove Primary School. Through a series of workshops based on creative learning, Toumpouris has been working with the school’s pupils, families and staff to explore language and communication beyond words or background. The project results in a mural of bisque-fired ceramic pieces and 3D animations of an invented language. In partnership with Oakgrove Primary School, Queens Cross Housing Association and Glasgow Sculpture Studios Supported by Creative Scotland, Cultural Section of Cyprus High Commission and Glasgow International Produced by Alex Misick
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26 Director’s Programme Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street G3 8AG Fri 24 April – Mon 25 May Mon – Thu & Sat, 10am – 5pm Fri & Sun, 11am – 5pm
Carol Rhodes See the World Carol Rhodes (1959 – 2018) was a Glasgow-based artist known for her paintings of partly fictive, human-made landscapes – combinations of the natural and the artificial, suspended between intimacy and estrangement. This first posthumous solo exhibition focuses on Rhodes’ rarely exhibited drawings alongside key paintings and invites close examination of her artistic processes and preoccupations. Her works focus on topographic blind spots and peripheries, ‘non-places’ such as service stations, airports, railway depots, development centres, trade parks and brown-field industrial belts. These are environments often associated with the flow of material and labour, storage and distribution, the mining of natural resources, or the deposit of industrial waste and byproduct. Human activity is everywhere, yet human beings themselves do not feature, and the place and state of the psyche is highly ambiguous. Rhodes drew upon various sources, from geography textbooks and environmental surveys to urban planning manuals and her own photographs taken from helicopters and planes. The distance and detachment of the aerial viewpoint is critical: absence and displacement are themes throughout. Supported by Bridget Riley Art Foundation Carol Rhodes, River, Roads (2013) Courtesy of the estate of Carol Rhodes
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Director’s Programme Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street G3 8AG Fri 24 April 2020 – Sun 25 May 2021 Mon – Thu & Sat, 10am – 5pm Fri & Sun, 11am – 5pm
France-Lise McGurn Aloud France-Lise McGurn’s newly commissioned installation draws on her personal experiences of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum; the hours she spent there as a child and then later as an adult, inhabiting but also observing. In particular, Albert Moore’s well-loved painting, Reading Aloud (1884), has provided a point of departure for McGurn: especially the positioning and postures of the models, its textures and ambiguous lack of urgency or context. McGurn’s figurative practice delivers a wholly immersive experience, launching the viewer into a three-dimensional world of archetypal women and men, often portrayed in a state of undress, reclining in both ecstasy and agony. Sometimes they appear tense and attentive, sometimes languid, bathed in an air of euphoria. In McGurn’s new work, her fluid application of paint breaks from the canvas, emerging unrestrained across sculptural forms on the museum balcony. The compositional layering of paint onto transparent Perspex panels directly reflects the exposure of private lives and intimacy so frequently at play in McGurn’s work. Supported by Henry Moore Foundation France-Lise McGurn, Earth Girls Are Easy (2019) Photo: Ben Westoby Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery
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Director’s Programme Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street G3 8AW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Duncan Campbell For his new commission, Turner Prize-winning artist Duncan Campbell presents us with a giant electromagnetic mechanical display. Akin to a message board at a railway station, airport, or stock exchange, the screen creates highly pixelated moving images, somewhere between animation, film and drawing, but on a cinematic scale. In conjunction with this is a recorded voice that tries to order information and present it to us. In attempting to corral all this visual data, the work interrogates the relationship between memory and what appears on the screen. Campbell’s new commission draws upon his own earlier works such as Falls Burns Malone Fiddles (2004) and It for Others (2013). Both these earlier works and Campbell’s new installation express an interest in values and a repressed instinct of biographical curiosity. Key touchstones are the novels of Samuel Beckett, which seem suspended in mid-air between oppressive container and a yearning for containment. Made possible with Art Fund support Duncan Campbell, untitled (2020) Photo: Patrick Jameson. Courtesy of the artist
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Director’s Programme Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street G3 8AW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Ana Mazzei Drama O’Rama: Other Scenes Ana Mazzei’s first commission for a public institution in Scotland is a large-scale site-specific installation. The Brazilian artist presents an unfurling series of rooms, filled with abstracted sculptural forms each pertaining to states of mind, which taken together suggest an open-ended narrative. At once vivid in colour and offering shifts in perspective and viewpoint, each room could be a twist in a plot or a figment from a dream or memory. There is a deliberate sense of somehow being caught in a choreographed game, with sculptures that take on their own vocabulary of forms, conjuring half-remembered episodes or fragmented mythologies. Residency supported by Hospitalfield Exhibition supported by British Council and Henry Moore Foundation
Ana Mazzei, Run Rabbit Run (2018) Photo: Alex Wolfe
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Director’s Programme Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street G3 8AW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Please note this exhibition is in a wheelchair accessible part of the building.
Gretchen Bender, Total Recall (1987). Photo: Tate
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As part of the Pictures Generation (a group of 1970s New York media artists), pioneering US artist Gretchen Bender (1951-2004) questioned the politics of entertainment and mass media products. Early on, in the 1980s, her works offered an outlook upon the coming revolution of the digital and its multiple impacts upon contemporary culture: accelerated globalisation, increasing levels of surveillance, the corporate production of desire, and the 24/7 newsfeed culture we experience today.
Total Recall (1987) is a monumental multichannel video installation. It assembles twenty-four stacked TV monitors and three projection screens to present a compelling eighteen-minute performance of moving images. Sourced from US TV commercials as well as Hollywood films, the footage is edited to a rapid beat in order to create a pulsing stream of visual over-stimulation. Bender’s work, presented in Scotland for the first time, is a truly immersive experience that critically reflects on the power of media. Supported by The Block and Robert Longo
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Director’s Programme SWG3 Galvanizers 100 Eastvale Place G3 8QG Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sat, 10am – 6pm Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Georgina Starr, Moment Memory Monument (2017) Courtesy of Georgina Starr and Alcantara
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Moment Memory Monument (2017) is a large-scale sculptural performance installation situated within the setting of the Time and Memory Research laboratory, transplanted into the Galvanizers, a former warehouse space at SWG3. At the centre of the work is ‘The Sphere’, a giant brain-like sculptural form with a soft and embracing interior. Moment Memory Monument revisits a scenario from Alain Resnais’ darkly surrealist sci-fi film Je t’aime, Je t’aime (1968), in which
scientists test a time machine on a man who has recently attempted suicide, thereby forcing him to relive his real or imagined memories. In the exhibition, it is visitors who are invited to enter ‘The Sphere’, where they listen to a tale which takes them on an otherworldly journey. Supported by Alcantara, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Henry Moore Foundation and SWG3
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29 The Hunterian Art Gallery University of Glasgow 82 Hillhead Street G12 8QQ Fri 24 April – Sun 12 July Mon, 11am – 4pm Tue – Sat, 10am – 5pm Sun, 11am – 4pm
Jimmy Robert Tobacco Flower Tobacco Flower is a major installation of new work by artist Jimmy Robert, which focuses on relationships between Europe and the Caribbean. Robert handles this urgent and contentious material with care: Tobacco Flower is as intimate as it is political. Working across several mediums, including film and performance, Robert engages directly with The Hunterian and its historical collections to examine the cultural framing of identities and desires. Supported by Glasgow International and Goethe-Institut Jimmy Robert, Untitled (belladonna) (2007) Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin
30 Drawing Life Studio 33 Rosevale Street G11 6ES Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Liv Fontaine, Paul Kindersley, Huhtamaki Wab Don’t Let The Bastards Grind You Down An exhibition of exhibitionists, starring Liv Fontaine, Paul Kindersley, and Huhtamaki Wab. Known for creating largerthan-life personae, these artists explore the surreal, the political and the outrageous within their own lives and wider society. Don’t Let The Bastards Grind You Down aims to draw attention to the paintings and drawings that underpin each artist’s practice. Expect whimsical scenes of joy, depravity and all the messiness of life. Curated by Cabbage
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28 Part of the GI Opening Party SWG3 100 Eastvale Place Stobcross Road G3 8QG Thu 23 April, 9pm – late Free ticketed events, advance booking is required: glasgowinternational.org
Christian Noelle Charles, Liv Fontaine, William Joys, Wassili Widmer Hubris Civic Room presents Hubris, a programme of performances taking place at arts, music and events space SWG3. In ancient Greece, hubris signified an overreaching arrogance that angered the gods and led to the offender’s downfall. Here, in new works by Christian Noelle Charles, Liv Fontaine, William Joys, and Wassili Widmer, hubris can be an act of transgression, one that challenges social norms in a way that may be inhumane or all too human. Curated by Civic Room This event takes place alongside the Glasgow International x David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF) Opening Party. See page 7 for details.
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Minty Donald, Nic Green, Ashanti Harris, Stewart Laing, Neil McGuire, Nick Millar, Pester and Rossi, David Sherry Garage Vivant For one night only, a roller-shutter garage behind Glasgow’s Mitchell Library hosts Garage Vivant, a series of performances at the intersection between theatre and visual art. Minty Donald, Neil McGuire and Nick Millar have invited other artists to respond to the concept of the tableau vivant, an artform in which silent actors or models, sometimes costumed, create static scenes with props and lighting. Supported by Glasgow International
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Director’s Programme The Pyramid at Anderston 759 Argyle Street G3 8DS Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Yuko Mohri Such is the delicacy of Japanese artist Yuko Mohri’s work that it is often activated by only the tiniest vibrations or movements around the installations, which involve elements of sound, sculpture and kinetics. Set within the magnificent Pyramid congregation hall – now a deconsecrated space – this new installation incorporates microphones and a piano. The work involves a feedback loop, whereby the piano will ‘interpret’ and play back the sounds it ‘hears’ within the room, whether they be footsteps or the hubbub of chatter. The work shifts our focus away from sight and towards what comes through our ears. Mohri’s work is location- and event-specific. It incorporates elements of chance involving whoever might be visiting on a given day. In this way there is an echo of the pioneering work of John Cage: the inclusion of the piano reminds us of Cage’s most infamous work, 4´33”, in which the pianist plays nothing and the sound of the audience comprises the music. Supported by British Council, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Young Collectors Collective and Henry Moore Foundation Yuko Mohri, Voluta (2018). Installation view at Camden Arts Centre Photo: Damian Griffiths. Courtesy of Camden Arts Centre
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33 The Glasgow Room The Mitchell Library North Street G3 7DN Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm Thu, 10am – 8pm Sat – Sun, 12pm – 5pm
Sharon Hayes Ricerche Sharon Hayes’ major new project with The Common Guild is the culmination of Ricerche, a suite of video works that the artist has been working on since 2013. Ricerche features a range of individuals: from poets and labourers to students at a women’s college in Massachusetts, and children of queer or gender non-conforming parents. The result is a sustained investigation of public speech, and its intersections with history, politics, activism, queer theory, love and sexuality. Presented by The Common Guild Sharon Hayes, Ricerche (2019) Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin
32 The Pyramid at Anderston 759 Argyle Street G3 8DS Fri 24 – Sun 26 April Free, ticketed events, advance booking is required: glasgowinternational.org
Ashanti Harris, Zephyr Liddell, Patricia Panther Jumbies Jumbies is a collaborative ‘group-show-as-performance’ which weaves together the diverse practices of visual artist Ashanti Harris, textile designer Zephyr Liddell and sound artist Patricia Panther. Taking its title from the jumbie – a Caribbean colloquial for ghost – the performance combines dance, sound, and printed textiles to explore Jacques Derrida’s concept of ‘hauntology’; creating a space of layered fictions, alternate realities, apparitions and re-presentations. Supported by Creative Scotland, Glasgow International and Panel West and South West
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34 The Pearce Institute 840-860 Govan Road G51 3UU Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 12pm – 5pm Closed, Fri 8 May Events every Sat, 25 April, 2 May and 9 May at 3pm
35 Ibrox Library Midlock Street G51 1SL Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon, Wed & Fri – Sat, 10am – 5pm Tue & Thu, 10am – 8pm
Kader Attia, Margaret Salmon Who’s Counting? Glasgow-based curatorial co-operative Chapter Thirteen presents an exhibition that champions empathy, love and healing as visceral approaches to political discourse. Who’s Counting? pairs a new project by Margaret Salmon that reflects on feminist economic theory alongside contextresponsive work exploring the notion of ‘repair’ by Kader Attia, who is showing in Scotland for the first time. Taking place in the historic Pearce Institute, the exhibition incorporates additional materials, discussions and events. Supported by Glasgow International, Goethe-Institut and Institut Français du Royaume-Uni
Mathew Parkin Lug Artist Mathew Parkin has long been interested in ideas relating to the body and accessibility, class and intimacy, geography, queerness, sex and kinship. Parkin’s work often involves collaboration with friends, lovers, peers and family, both as subjects and during the process of production. Parkin’s latest exhibition, Lug, which makes reference to the Yorkshire Dialect Society, consists of a new online moving image work and an installation in Ibrox Library. Supported by Glasgow International, The Art House, Wakefield and Creative Scotland
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36 Govan Project Space 249 Govan Road G51 1HJ Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 4pm Symposium: Thu 30 April
Jacqueline Donachie STEP Jacqueline Donachie is known for her socially-engaged practice that is rooted in an exploration of individual, family and collective identity and the structures, platforms and spaces through which it is constructed and supported. For Glasgow International, she is engaging directly with the city’s architectural heritage, questioning how we can continue to access it. Her work acts as a vibrant place for people to commune and begin new discussions. Supported by Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Glasgow International, Sculpture Placement Group and SWG3
37 Offsite public art work: Govan Graving Docks Entrance via gate at corner of Stag Street and Clydebrae Street G51 2AJ Mon – Sun, 12pm – 5pm
Jacqueline Donachie, Headphones, Music, Boats and Trains (2017) Installation view at Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Photo: Ruth Clark. Courtesy of Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow
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38 House for an Art Lover Studio Pavilion Bellahouston Park 10 Dumbreck Road G41 5BW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Katie Watchorn Zero-Grazing New work by Katie Watchorn spans the gallery and courtyard at Studio Pavilion at House for an Art Lover. Watchorn’s practice is rooted in the rhythms of her family’s dairy farm in rural Ireland. Primarily through sculpture, she attempts to worry through her family’s farm life, as her father worries over his animals. Using agriculturally specific materials, she creates the sensation of entering onto private land – as if the landowner has only just departed. Supported by Culture Ireland and Glasgow International
Katie Watchorn, BalehomeBalehome (2018)
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38 House for an Art Lover Studio Pavilion Project Space Bellahouston Park 10 Dumbreck Road G41 5BW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Sulaïman Majali false dawn false dawn invokes Scheherazade from the folktale ‘1001 Nights’ and imagines her as a radical disruptor who maps and obstructs the colonial matrix. The exhibition proposes the tales – subsumed by Orientalism and encountered through a diasporic optic – as a vehicle for spatial and temporal disruption, through which Scheherazade performs collapse within the apparatus of disposability and maps divergence as a weapon to be deployed in the house of an enduring imperial imaginary. Supported by Glasgow International
38 House for an Art Lover Heritage Centre Bellahouston Park 10 Dumbreck Road G41 5BW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Sekai Machache, Thulani Rachia These stories... This pair of conceptually linked solo exhibitions comprises The Divine Sky by Sekai Machache and ‘...Wathint’ Imbokodo’ by Thulani Rachia. Making reference to Your Silence Won’t Protect You, a posthumously published collection of essays, speeches, and poems by African American writer Audre Lorde, the exhibitions piece together fragments, histories, and mythologies as a form of resistance against the daily, systematic oppression experienced by people of colour. Curated by Katherine Ka Yi Liu Supported by Glasgow International
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38 House for an Art Lover Studio Pavilion Shed Space Bellahouston Park 10 Dumbreck Road G41 5BW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Andrew Black, Aman Sandhu The Magic Roundabout and The Besom These two new film works are united by an interest in queer narratives of place. Shot inside a car, Aman Sandhu’s The Magic Roundabout uses a notorious traffic intersection in Swindon as a stage for the retelling of male indiscretions in a local Punjabi family. Andrew Black’s The Besom combines gay erotic fantasy, architectural ruin and nostalgic pastoral narratives in the countryside surrounding a US military radar station in North Yorkshire. Supported by Glasgow International
Aman Sandhu, The Magic Roundabout (2020)
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38 House for an Art Lover The Gardener’s Bothy Bellahouston Park 10 Dumbreck Road G41 5BW Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Soufiane Ababri Sub! Artist Soufiane Ababri works across a range of forms: from performance and sculpture to film and drawing. His work often critiques prescriptive gender roles, highlighting the legacies of oppressive colonial structures, specifically relating to racism and homophobia. Sub! is Ababri’s first solo exhibition in Scotland. It is a confrontation of the intimate with the social world and what can be drawn from these situations. Supported by Glasgow International Soufiane Ababri, Bedwork (2017) Courtesy of the artist and Praz Delavallade Paris Los Angeles
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Director’s Programme Langside Halls 1 Langside Avenue G41 2QR Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Sarah Forrest Are we seeing what we’re supposed to see? What clues are being hinted at and how are we, the viewer or reader, caught up in the narrative? This new work by Glasgow-based artist Sarah Forrest takes on the detective novel as its starting point in order to unravel how our attention is shifted when we are on the trail of a sleuthing mystery. In detecting, the act of inquiry means that our senses become heightened as every object encountered could be laced with apparent or hidden meanings. The detective novel supposes that logic will ultimately triumph over dark forces. We are led from A to B to C in a sequence that foregrounds rationality and precision. It is the triumph of close looking. And yet in many instances the detective is male and presented as a kind of rational saviour. This patriarchal trait is subverted and problematised in Forrest’s tightly wrought new work. Supported by Glasgow School of Art (GSA)
Sarah Forrest, I Left It on Page 32 (still) (2013). Courtesy of the artist
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Tramway T5 25 Albert Drive G41 2PE
Based in then-Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948 – 2015) created sculptures of imagined buildings and cityscapes that propose fantastical, utopian models for a more harmonious future society. Working in a period of socio-political shifts, Kingelez responded to an urgent need to transform urban reality.
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From the late 1970s until 1985 Kingelez worked as a selftaught art restorer at the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaïre, which gave him access to supplies and materials, and
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a base to refine his practice. He created works from a variety of everyday and found materials such as coloured paper, cardboard, plastic and tape, meticulously repurposed in order to radically rethink the world around him. Shown for the first time in a UK solo exhibition, Kingelez’s ‘extreme maquettes’ are vibrant, ambitious and highly detailed sculptures. These inventive works raise questions around difficult issues of urban planning, economic inequity, nationhood
and national identity – resonating profoundly within today’s contemporary societies – while remaining innately infused with potential. Kingelez’s work was included in the groundbreaking 1989 exhibition Magiciens de la terre at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and has most recently been exhibited in the first largescale solo presentation of his work, City Dreams (2018-2019) at MoMA, New York. Supported by Henry Moore Foundation Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kimbembele Ihunga (1992) Courtesy of The Museum of Everything
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Director’s Programme Tramway T5 25 Albert Drive G41 2PE Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Fri, 12pm – 5pm Sat – Sun, 12pm – 6pm Mon 11 May – Sun 21 June Tue – Fri, 12pm – 5pm Sat – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Martine Syms S1:E4 S1:E4 is a new episode in Martine Syms’ project SHE MAD (2015-ongoing), in which the artist incorporates elements of the sitcom format and past TV series to explore ‘the sign of blackness in the public imagination’. Presented in the form of a giant widescreen projection encompassing one wall of Tramway’s largest gallery, the work follows the character of Martine, described as an ‘overachieving, stoner graphic designer who lives in Hollywood and wishes she were an important artist’. In this iteration the focus is on a ‘micro-aggression’ at a client’s party, triggering a flashback to the summer of 2000, when Martine was a camper at T-Zone, a week-long empowerment programme for teenage girls founded by a supermodel and business mogul. Co-curated and co-commissioned by Glasgow International and Tramway Supported by Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, Sadie Coles HQ, London and Henry Moore Foundation
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Photo: Tyler Adams (2019)
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Director’s Programme Tramway T4 25 Albert Drive G41 2PE Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Fri, 12pm – 5pm Sat – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Jenkin van Zyl In Vitro We arrive into a chamber of cake ‘heads’ – grotesque masklike baked goods in fridges – and thus begins a journey into the witty and bacchanalian world of Jenkin van Zyl. Taking on the dungeon-like qualities of Tramway’s T4 Theatre, the artist creates an immersive installation comprising both sculpture and video, inviting viewers into a scenario involving amongst other things airplane fuselage to impress a sense of claustrophobia, sexual ecstasy, hysteria and ‘folk horror’. At the heart of the installation is a new film which introduces us to characters enacting looped rituals of reproduction and self-pollination in an effort to achieve community, individuation and re-enchantment. The work seeks to indulge in but also problematise the spectacle of transgression. Pulling together at once pleasure, pain and hope, van Zyl uses camp and humour to subvert societal expectations, and imagine what abundance and joy could mean outside the cycles of physical reproduction and consumption. For the artist ‘the hope of pretending is that, with enough time and practise, the performance becomes you’. Supported by Henry Moore Foundation
Jenkin van Zyl, In Vitro (still) (2020). Courtesy of the artist
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Director’s Programme Tramway T1 25 Albert Drive G41 2PE Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Fri, 12pm – 5pm Sat – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Georgina Starr Quarantaine Quarantaine is an ambitious new film by Georgina Starr. Its title refers to the French word for ‘forty’, and also alludes to the period of enforced isolation known in English as ‘quarantine’ (so-called because of its original forty-day timeframe). Over the course of multiple chapters, it follows the story of two new recruits to a clandestine sisterhood whose pursuit of esoteric knowledge takes place in a secret place of instruction, similarly cut off from the world outside. Contrasting what seems like a cult-like focus on strict supervision and mind-control with other more unruly rituals of mind expansion and extrasensory perception, Quarantaine continues Starr’s preoccupation with the otherworldly and the occult, and her longstanding interests in the visionary aspects of experimental cinema, to further her exploration of the hidden recesses of the creative imagination. Co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Leeds Art Gallery and Glasgow International with Art Fund support through the Moving Image Fund for Museums. This programme is made possible thanks to Thomas Dane Gallery and a group of private galleries and individuals.
Georgina Starr, Quarantaine (still) (2020). Courtesy of the artist
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41 Celine 3/2 493 Victoria Road G42 8RL Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Donald Rodney Artist-run space Celine presents an exhibition of work by artist Donald Rodney. A leading figure in Britain’s BLK Art Group of the 1980s, Rodney was renowned for appropriating images from popular culture in order to explore issues of racial identity and racism. Rodney’s pioneering engagements with new media and technology make his work especially relevant to a new generation of artists living and working today. Supported by the estate of Donald Rodney, Glasgow International, professor Mike Phillips and Dr. Guido Bugmann Curated by Ian Sergeant and Celine
Unknown photographer, Untitled photograph (1987) Courtesy of the estate of Donald Rodney
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42 The Deep End 21 Nithsdale Street (lane entrance accessible between Pollokshaws Road and Nithsdale Drive) G41 2PZ Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 11am – 6pm
Rabiya Choudhry, Raisa Kabir, Jasleen Kaur, Rae-Yen Song Fabric of Society Fabric of Society is a self-organising collective of four UKbased artists of colour. The resulting group exhibition has been woven together by an exploration of fabric and textile, invoking the personal stories of the individual artists involved, whilst reflecting on our broader social fabric. Drawing on fabric’s associations with constructions of womanhood and identity, Fabric of Society creates and interrogates narratives which are – variously – personal, collective and universal. Supported by Creative Scotland and Glasgow International
Rabiya Choudhry, COCO!NUTS! Fabrics (2018) Photo: Eoin Carey
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43 Radclyffe Hall 2/2 7 Newark Drive G41 4QJ Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 5pm – 7pm
Mason Leaver-Yap, Emmie McLuskey, Ima-Abasi Okon Glasgow-based artist Emmie McLuskey and Ima-Abasi Okon, who lives and works in Amsterdam and London, are presenting artwork within the domestic setting of Radclyffe Hall, alongside texts by writer Mason Leaver-Yap. McLuskey works with sculpture, print, sound and performance to explore the physical embodiment of communication with a particular focus on systems of learning. Okon combines sculpture, sound and video to produce installations that complicate the construction of knowledge. Supported by Glasgow International
44 Queens Park Railway Club 492 Victoria Road G42 8PQ Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Graham Fagen Ping Pong Club Graham Fagen represented Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. His latest project started with an archive: letters, notes, name tags and invitations, collected over 20 years, all bearing Fagen’s name, spelt incorrectly. They come from airlines, football clubs, the BBC, and even the Prime Minister of the UK. For Fagen, this archive raises questions beyond bureaucratic ineptitude; it touches upon the formation of identity, and the relationships between archives and subjectivity, fiction and the law. Supported by Glasgow International
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45 3/1 38 Torrisdale Street G42 8PL Fri 24 April, 6pm – 9pm Sat 25 April, 3pm – 6pm
Catalina Barroso-Luque, Daniella Valz Gen Deslices An intimate performance event that incorporates new work by Glasgow-based artist Catalina Barroso-Luque and Daniella Valz Gen, who lives and works in London. Deslices combines shared bodily experiences with moments of cross-cultural misunderstanding in order to examine multiple notions of gender and the exchanges that shape these relationships. Staged in a domestic space, Deslices emphasises parallels between everyday power dynamics and those embedded within acts of spectatorship. Supported by a-n Artist Bursary 2020, Creative Scotland, Glasgow City Council and Glasgow International
46 Rattle Library at Glasgow Autonomous Space Unit 11, 53 Kilbirnie Street G5 8JD Thu 30 April – Mon 4 May Thu & Fri, Sun & Mon, 7pm – 12am Sat, 5pm – 9pm
Hamja Ahsan Shy Radicals Film Season (And Training Films) In 2017, Hamja Ahsan published Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert, a book that acts as a blueprint for the fictional liberation struggle of shy, introverted, and autistic spectrum peoples against ‘the Extrovert-Supremacist World Order’. For Glasgow International, Rattle Library is bringing to life a speculative film season proposed within the book. The programme includes documentaries, chick flicks, revenge movies, and avant-garde cinema, all featuring shy heroes or autistic spectrum icons. Supported by Glasgow International
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Ingrid Pollard, Untitled from 17 of 68 series (2019) Courtesy of the artist
47 Glasgow Women’s Library 23 Landressy Street G40 1BP Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Wed & Fri, 10am – 5pm Thu, 10am – 7.30pm Sat – Sun, 12pm – 4pm
Ingrid Pollard Glasgow Women’s Library presents specially commissioned new work by artist and researcher Ingrid Pollard. Known for paying close attention to histories of representation, Pollard’s work, as she puts it, ‘brings to life what we always knew was there’. Following a residency in 2019, Pollard’s latest work responds to the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre, part of the library’s collections. The result provides a vital challenge to the ongoing marginalisation of LGBTQ+ culture and history. Supported by Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund and Glasgow International
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48 David Dale Gallery 161 Broad Street G40 2QR Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 11am – 6pm Mon 11 May – Sat 6 June Thu – Sat, 12pm – 6pm
Dan Walwin Like clock Dan Walwin, who lives and works in Amsterdam, attends closely to the movement of subjects, from the embodied camera to the gallery visitor. The environments that the artist creates combine video, sound, sculpture and installation in order to channel visceral sensations associated with particular forms of containment. This new work has been commissioned for the gallery and courtyard of David Dale Gallery, a not-forprofit contemporary art gallery and artists’ studios. Supported by Creative Scotland, Glasgow International and Mondriaan Fund
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49 Market Gallery 334 Duke Street G31 1QZ Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 12pm – 6pm
Céline Amendola, Gordon Douglas, Saira Harvey, Katy Hassall, Annie Hazelwood, Ruthie Kennedy, Judith Leupi, Suds McKenna, Holly Muir, Isobel Neviazsky, Nastya Nikolskaya, Stephen Polatch, Sabine, Alex Sarkisian, Martin Steuck, Camara Taylor, Lizzie Watts A many-voiced argument with life Over the eighteen days of Glasgow International, eighteen artists are contributing existing work to a new publication and presenting a day-long intervention at Market Gallery, transforming the space into a site for expanded reading. The gallery invited nine Glasgow-based artists; they in turn invited a further nine. The result is a celebration of friendship in its broadest sense – as the company we choose to keep and the texts we read and return to – and a challenge to curatorial control. Supported by Creative Scotland and Glasgow International
50 Platform The Bridge 1000 Westerhouse Road G34 9JW Fri 24 April – Sat 30 May Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm Performances: Free, ticketed events, advance booking required: glasgowinternational.org
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Walker & Bromwich Recalled to Life At 240-feet long, the Easterhouse Mosaic was one of the largest handmade murals in Europe. Unveiled in 1983 and widely celebrated, it nonetheless fell into disrepair and was decommissioned in 2004. Art duo Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich are working with residents to bring physical fragments of the mosaic back to life through performative walks and an exhibition, in order to uncover the radical working-class history of this lost community artwork. Supported by Glasgow International and Seven Lochs Wetland Park
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51 Civic Room 215 High Street G1 1QB Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Mon – Sun, 11am – 6pm
Dawn Mellor The Trials and Tribulations of Wet Horse Hair For Dawn Mellor’s first exhibition in Scotland, the artist is showing new paintings of actors such as Marianne JeanBaptiste, Daniela Nardini and Julie Walters. Cast as members of a judicial system, they are depicted in various states of pleasure. Mellor has also added depictions of real and imagined sea life in reference to the phrase, ‘bottom feeders’, meaning not only ocean-floor scavengers but also people who benefit from the misfortune of others. Curated by Young Team Supported by Glasgow International
Walker & Bromwich, Mosaic Performance (2019) Photo: Julia Bauer
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52 The Gallow Gate Many Studios 3 Ross Street G1 5AR Fri 24 April – Sun 10 May Wed – Sun, 10am – 6pm
Ndidi Dike Hushed Hushed is the first presentation in Scotland of artist Ndidi Dike. Presented at The Gallow Gate, the exhibition features new work across installation, archival photography, video and sculpture. Dike’s new work considers the historic and ongoing impacts of the colonial cloth trade, paying particular attention to plants that have been used as sources of the blue dye indigo: indigofera and lonchocarpus cyanescens. Curated by Natalia Palombo Supported by Glasgow International and British Council
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Ruth Mitchell, commissioned by The Gallow Gate for Hushed by Ndidi Dike (2019)
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Getting Here
Rail There are two main national railway terminals – Central Station and Queen Street Station – both of which are in the city centre. They both also connect to the local network, which serves the south and east of the city particularly well. For further national info check thetrainline.com Road Glasgow is linked to Edinburgh with the M8, England with the M74, Stirling with the M80 and the West Coast of Scotland with the M77. For real-time travel information on all of Scotland’s trunk roads visit trafficscotland.org, or access it via the Traveline Scotland app. Air Glasgow Airport is 15 minutes by taxi or 20 minutes by bus to the city centre, while Glasgow Prestwick is 45 minutes by rail or road. Edinburgh Airport is 45 minutes by road or 60 minutes by direct bus.
Where to Stay
Glasgow and its surrounding areas offer a wide range of accommodation to cater for all tastes and budgets. We are pleased to have Citizen M as our main hotel partner for the festival. Please check the website to book citizenm.com/destinations/glasgow/glasgow-hotel. Visit peoplemakeglasgow.com for further information on a variety of accommodation options, ranging from five-star hotels to affordable hostels, or options further afield.
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Getting Around
We encourage you to think green and explore the city on foot, by bike or by public transport wherever possible. On Foot Glasgow is an easy city to navigate on foot, and we have designed this guide with consideration to how visitors may move around venues within each area. Please see the maps on pages 38 - 41 and within each section to plan your trip. By Train Travelling by train is one of the quickest, easiest and cost effective ways to get around Glasgow, with many stations near to key festival venues. See the maps on pages 38-41 to check the stations near to festival venues. By Bike We encourage you to cycle around the festival. There are dedicated bike lanes on many of Glasgow’s roads. You can also rent bikes from the Next Bike stations around the city. For more details please visit: nextbike.co.uk/en/glasgow/. You can also download their app for Android/iPhone. By Subway Many venues and projects are close by to local network stations. The SPT ‘Roundabout’ ticket gives one day unlimited travel by rail and subway to over 110 stations in the Greater Glasgow area. These tickets can be purchased through ScotRail or SPT Travel Centres. By Bus First Bus Glasgow operates over 100 routes across the city. Discounts for travel are available, with a number of tickets allowing hop on/hop off travel. For bus timetables and route information you can download the First Bus App for both Android/iPhone. You can also purchase tickets by contactless payment, or through the First Bus app.
International / Group Visits
Glasgow International is the ideal time to plan a research trip to Scotland with your colleagues, patrons and collectors groups. We recommend a minimum of two or three days in Glasgow to allow enough time to see key exhibitions, events and commissions. If you would like assistance in planning a group visit or further information about planning your journey to Scotland to visit Glasgow International, email info@glasgowinternational.org Sign up for professional registration at glasgowinternational.org
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Thank you We wish to thank all of the artists and participants in the programme and Glasgow’s visual art community, without whose talent, innovation, tenacity and hard work, Glasgow International would not be possible. Advisory Group Leonie Bell (Strategic Lead, Paisley Partnership), Katie Duffy (Glasgow Life), Andrew Hamilton (The Modern Institute), Sigrid Kirk (Co-founder of AWITA and ARTimbarc), Pauline Law (IWC Media), Lisa Le Grove (Glasgow City Council), Silka Patel (Marketing and Communications Consultant), Ciara Phillips (artist), Andrew Renton (Goldsmiths, University of London), Sarah Strang (Civic Room) Funders Steering Group Norah Campbell (British Council), Amanda Catto (Creative Scotland), Sebastian Howell (Scottish Government), Sarah MacIntyre (Creative Scotland), Jennifer Stevenson (EventScotland) Additional Support The Lord Provost’s Office, Cove Park, Robert Longo, Andrew Mickel, Alan Muir, Sigrid and Stephen Kirk We are grateful to galleries The Modern Institute, Sadie Coles, Simon Lee Gallery and Rodeo Gallery for their advice and support Across the City Selection Panellists With thanks to Eoin Dara (Head of Exhibitions, Dundee Contemporary Arts), Hanne Mugaas (Director, Kunsthall Stavanger) and Alberta Whittle (artist) for working alongside the curatorial team to select the Across the City programme Festival Core Team Director: Richard Parry Festival Manager: Diana Stevenson Curator: Poi Marr Festival Coordinator: Molly Mae Whawell Assistant Curator: Nora-Swantje Almes Marketing Manager: Tracey Kelly
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Wider GI 2020 Team Digital Marketing and Online Editor: Leah Silverlock Volunteer Coordinator: Helen Wright Copy Editor: Tom Jeffreys PR: Sam Talbot, Mary Doherty and Dido Gompertz at Sam Talbot PR, and Katie Bouchier-Hayes at Cornershop PR Technical Manager: Daniel Griffiths Design: Kerr Vernon and Ed Watt at Cause & Effect Illustrations: Gabriella Marcella at Risotto Studio Website Development: Kyle McKenzie at Form Digital Editions Coordinator: Ali O’Shea With additional thanks to: Imran Alam, Gordon Anderson, Alessio Antoniolli, Gabriel Araujo, Neil Ballantyne, Diljeet Bhachu, Steven Bode, James Brett, Rachael Browning, Katie Bruce, Paul Burns, Lucy Byatt, Rocket Caleshu, Susanna Chisholm, Marie Christie, Rob Churm, Martin Craig, Ailie Crerar, Kate Davies, Will Davies, Shezad Dawood, Emma Dexter, Robert Dingle, Lorna Duguid, James Farlam, Cicely Farrer, Ailie Fleming, Andrew FlemingBrown, Matthew Fitts, Meryl Gilbert, Alex Harvie, Kirsty Hendry, Stefanie Hessler, Nayo Higashide, Orit Gat, Claire Jackson, Merlin James, Moira Jeffrey, Bianca Jones, David Laing, Laura Lambert, Allan Madden, Bridget McConnell, Ned McConnell, Michael McDonagh, Rachel McGuire, Francis McKee, Alex McLean, Sean McNamara, Jill Miller, Alex Misick, Freya Monk-McGowan, Andrew Mummery, Ania Neisser, Steff Norwood, Julia Paoli, Claricia Parinussa, Dominic Paterson, Adele Patrick, Darren Pih, Sarah Philp, Paul Noble, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Gustavo Riviera, John Rush, David Russ, Mhairi Sawyer, Karen Shaw, Pauline Shaw, Naomi Shoba, Carrie Skinner, Paul Sorley, Miranda Stacey, Alexander Storey-Gordon, cheyanne turions, Max Wolf, Anna Young, Claudia Zeiske And huge thanks to all of our amazing volunteers.
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