Prayer for (Passive?) Resistance Feb 13, 2007
Comments closedAuthor: Kneel, Mulholland: Drive!
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The Edinburgh Arts Festival (EAF) www.edinburghartfestival.org (27th July- 3rd Sept) entered its third year with a packed programme of exhibitions, events, talks and walks. Although distinctly devoid of extraordinary shows, a few EAF highlights included David Batchelor at The Palm…
Comments closedEstablished in 2003, The Embassy (www.embassygallery.co.uk) incorporated the key protagonists behind two Edinburgh-based artist-initiatives of the early 00s: Win Together Lose Together Play Together Stay Together – a carnivalesque cooperative that occupied temporary spaces – and Magnifitat (www.magnifitat.net) – an…
Comments closedWhere the Wild Things Are Dundee Contemporary Arts 10th June -13th August 2006 While crossing the border between human and animal kingdoms, DCA superficially mimics the wares of the watercolour-challenged currently emerging from hibernation to display their plumage at a…
Comments closedCommenticius Combibo (Lady Amherst’s Lesser Big-eared Ring-necked Semi-collared Bar-headed Pink-footed Red-Eyed Short-arsed Buff-bellied Fanny-tailed Ruddy-cheeked Needle-nobbed Trustafarian Bean Warbling Uphill Oystercatching Snipe) This seabird has flourished in the Isle of Man, Switzerland and North Korea where it has been saved…
Comments closedCentre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 4th December 2004 – 30th January 2005. Thomas Hirschhorn’s latest project sees him collaborating with Marcus Steinweg, Gwenaël Morin and his theatre company within the confines of the Swiss Cultural Centre in Paris – an event…
Comments closedTransmission, Glasgow Errantly over determined high definition digitally manipulated images bearing their Photoshop scars as fangs parade the Transmission like Tretchikoff dinosaurs. Tales of the expected, they look like paintings but aren’t. In the main gallery, these huge LaserJet prints…
Comments closed12th November 2005 – 28th January 2006, CCA, Glasgow. An exhibition featuring a substantial film programme, In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love forthrightly presents itself as intellectually challenging and time-demanding. It sprawls geographically and chronologically…
Comments closedKinross and Perthshire, Scotland March to November 2005 ‘Pit bulls are bought by those spectacular tattooed fuckwits, you know. It’s a shark on a leash, isn’t it, this pointy…
Comments closedFruitmarket Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Edinburgh Castle 30 July — 25 September 2005 While running counter to global technocratic culture, spiritualism customarily acts as a dramatic subterfuge. Tantalizing us with the anticipation of spectral spectacle is the key…
Comments closedAs the People’s Republic of China enters the 51st Venice Biennale for the first time this year – staging an exhibition in the Arsenale complex and the Vergini Garden – Scotland makes its third independent appearance since the Scottish Sculpture…
Comments closedIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Anderson hacks technologies and spaces, making things and places do things that they weren’t designed to do. She playfully reappropriates media, lending it a performative drama. It’s a cut-up tactic purloined from William Burroughs,…
Comments closed18 April – 8 May 2005 Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow International 2005 “…people hunting for the meaning of things.” [1] It’s twenty years since Steven Campbell helped to broker Scotland’s now firmly established place…
Comments closedScotland burst out of Caledonia onto the international art scene at the beginning of the eighties with the Newer Glasgow Boys spearheading England’s bid for global New Image supremacy. But Scotland didn’t really come its own, commercially or artistically, until…
Comments closedHigh Street Fighting Years The Collective Gallery has its roots in a tradition of independent and artist-led activities in Edinburgh that can be traced to 1960s organisations such as the New 57 Gallery and protests led by Alexander Moffat and…
Comments closedLike many of her local peers, Glasgow artist Katy Dove works with unadorned playschool media. Colouring-in shapes with felt-tip pens and watercolour, she produces the kind of delicate forms and biomorphic sketches last seen alive in the abstract Plexiglas and…
Comments closedAurora, Edinburgh – Alberta Whittle and Robin Scott Collective Gallery, Edinburgh – Lee O’Connor and Rabiya Choudhry. Edinburgh’s artist-led galleries have been particularly responsive lately to a growing tendency among local artists to fouter with decoration, heraldry and pageantry. In…
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