This catchy little ditty comes to us by The Benedicts, an Indie/Alternative/Post Punk revival Rock band from Batumi, Georgia. It’ll have your foot tapping in no time.

This is an alternate version of their song Dead Girl, here’s a demo of the original for you too.

More from The Benedicts: Soundcloud | Facebook.

I’ve written at various points over the past year about the tremendously exciting parallel school, (a student-led augmented educational experience), as it has shadowed my own emerging interest in the field of alternative education. There are a couple of issues that i think are important about this;

The initiative starts small, and uses social network tools to connect with likeminded communities, but is built on the dedication and energy of a small group.

In line with the ‘open community’ myth of the net, it still appears to be dealing with a core demographic of similar people, though they may come from different countries and cultures, and be geographically dispersed.

It is aligned to a traditional educational institution but is not bound by it.

In itself and its existence, it is a political act, and directly questions the creeping commercialism of education.

Most of its work appears to currently be self-referential, (about the act of ‘design’ and the process of education), and it will be interesting to see if it moves into other areas.

It is fantastic that at a time when most art colleges are going through the business-as-usual degree shows, groups of students are self-organising in this way.

More resources on alt/self/parallel/future education, knowledge (and related areas) here – (sorry for the sloppy formatting):

www.unitednationsplaza.org

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www.staedelschule.de

facultyofinvisibility.tinka.cc

College

translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corner-college.com%2FCollege&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

real-world-studio

index.htm

index_about.htm

p3.shtml

SLOFI

diy-masters

story.asp?storyCode=94208§ioncode=26

www.thishappened.org

www.newworknetwork.org.uk

da.html

schoolofeverything.com

www.theschooloflife.com

free-university

story.asp?storycode=407359

illich

University_of_Openness

TheFreeUniversityProjectGlasgow1987-199

resourcecategory.html?resource=Academic_Programs

fiuwac_statement_-_www_fiuwac_.html

9C4309B0B50D8AA36167.htm

about

sigma.html

londonfreeschool.wordpress.com

filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com

itunesu

index.php?cat=2&subCat=docdetail&&id=206

edgware_road.html

resources

project6.html

Paulo_Freire

www.theschooloflife.com

Public_Library_of_Science

Open_access_%28publishing%29

stuart_bailey.shtml

critical.pdf

systems-learning-final-event-oct-6-2009-london-rca

www.summerhillschool.co.uk

ankur.society.for.alternatives.in.education

www.bureauit.org

portal

2010

Publications | Institute of Network Cultures

link.hfk-bremen.de

some more links: (updated 4.11.10)

www.department21.net

futurefarmers

colab_a_laboratory_for_collaboration_and_serious_play_by_shoham_arad__16513.asp

index.php

future-public-school

new-media-cultural-studies-and-critical-theory-after-postmodernism

artschoolalternatives.tumblr.com

PaulElliman

crosslab

www.onomatopee.net

cult_of_the_ugly

journalism

www.islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.com

schoolofthefuture.org

gdiycommunity.wordpress.com

The Dark Town Cakewalk

Real Discoveries Unexpected Realities

Joseph Beuys

Real Discoveries Unexpected Realities

Bridgeland

More Cakewalk

It was an intense way to start the day, but I’m glad that I went to see the thirteen-hour collage performance at the Arches. I arrived to see the end of act one and the beginning of act two.

Surreal, erotically charged children’s games filled with petting, pointing moving in unpredictable gyrating patterns, shifting, jarring, teasing, jerking, rubbing, laughing, moaning not to mention sequence, plastic, cake, shaving foam, razors, gags, frills, petticoats, breasticles , scarves, roses, microphones thumping, groaning, beating, blaring residual feedback, playful, menacing, dark, sexual, sensual, unpredictable shifting, confrontational, spontaneous improvisational endurance performance.

It was mesmerizing and one hour turned into three until I realized I really needed to walk away. It was too intense to take it all in, the audience could come and go as they pleased or needed.

I went to see Real Discoveries Unexpected Realities  319 by Helena Ohman McCardle. It was at Glasgow University in the Mcmillan Reading Room.   What made this work quite interesting was seeing the Joseph Beuys exhibit in the Huntarian and the What Science Could not Tell Us in the Boyd Orr building by Victoria Skogsberg.

These three exhibitions all relate to content of mystic, storytelling, things that aren’t real or things we perceive not to be real. The Joseph Beuys fat chair is more an artefact now than an artwork, but he was such an influential and historically important artist, it was really refreshing to see the two video works that are situated on either side of the Huntarian Gallery.

You can see Real Discoveries Unexpected Realities one more day Friday April 30^th.

‘Welcome to Bridgeland’ was a ceremonial opening of Bridgeland, taking place on the South Portland St Suspension Bridge on April 23rd for GI 2010. With local collaborators Guy Veale and Dave Tunstall, artist Jodi Rose conducted a site-specific musical performance and celebration to bridge sounds.

It was ok. I was a little disappointed but I think the project is an ethereal concept that uses the performance to inspire ideas about… well conceptual bridges.

I then went back to Cakewalk, I really wanted to stay for the end but I was exhausted. If you didn’t get a chance to see this epic performance I think you missed something.

21/4 Radiuses in Motion

Spiel David Noonan Mitchell library

The long Loch: How do We Go On From Here? Faith Wilding and Kate Davis

Subject to Change without notice: Will Foster and Guyan Porter Intermedia

Rough Luxe 102 hope st. Mair Hughes, Yvonne Mullock and Salomeh Grace

Passages Street level film screening

Le Drapeau Noir

A great day of art and happenings that could only happen through the festival. 

The Mitchell library was my first stop, Speil by David Noonan.

An incredibly elegant and vast space is turned into a set by the sculptural work and installation of Noonan. It’s deceivingly simple, and has a playfulness that is elegant and effortless. I couldn’t help but feeling that a giant hand was hovering somewhere near by to move the objects around as if it could be rearranged at any given moment.

There is anticipation; potential energy to this work that makes me want to go back and see it again. There is a great small catalogue published by Washington Garcia with an interview between Kenall Koppe and Alhena Katsof that adds to the knowledge and experience of the work. £2

There is a film screening on Monday the 26 of April The Rite of Ingmar Bergman at 18:00. Free I hope I can make it.

The long Loch: How do We Go On From Here? I have been following Kate Davis since she did an exhibition for the 2008 GI. It was the first seemingly feminist art that I had seen in Glasgow since moving to here in 2005. She did a residency at Cove Park where she was in email dialogue with Faith Wilding. This current exhibition has grown from that. The thing I think is important about this work as that it is examining and considering past, present and future states of the subject of feminism. The exhibition feels more like a platform than something that exists as a successfully independent exhibition without considering all the research, conversations and invitations to participate.  I was slightly disappointed with the show as a exhibit on it’s own, but feel quite happy that Davis and Wilding have started something that I think will continue to grow and include people as it develops.

Subject to Change without notice: Will Foster and Guyan Porter Intermedia

I was sceptical when I walked in, very black and white room that also resembles the semblance of an office. There was lively discussion happening and the freedom to walk around. Porter and Foster have taken up residency in Intermedia gallery examining the fine print. The more I think about the concept and activity the more I like it. I was able to speak to both artists and understand ask questions, this isn’t always the case. It’s only on till next weds, so have a go.

Rough Luxe 102 hope st. Mair Hughes, Yvonne Mullock and Salomeh Grace

This was a great “not what you expect” kind of experience. 102 Hope st. looks like a very sophisticated building when you walk up the stairs. Then you enter the exhibition and it’s all sensory overload with an extreme landscape shift. These three artists have put together a temporary installation that showcases their own work without competing with each other. These Glasgow based artist are quite different from each other, they have composed an intriguing depth of content. Two thumbs up, it’s worth having a look and don’t forget to inhale. I’m not entirely sure about the hay but it is a material that conjures specific memories and scenarios.

Passages Street level film screening

I really enjoyed this event. Reliving film that was made in the 80’s and 90’s was surprisingly refreshing and captivating. Louise Crawford, Richard Crompton, Deitch,

Simon Fildes, Shaz Kerr and Bert Ross are all Scottish artists. The work itself was poetic and timeless to me I hope street Level makes this a regular thing; G-Mac has a great screening room with huge seats and beautiful screening wall. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks Malcom.

Le Drapeau Noir

This is a wonderful place to meet up have a drink meet interesting people catch a performance and well if you were me get dressed in a seal costume and do a little pole dancing. I met Urara Tsuchiya, a Japanese artist currently living in London; She caught my eye, as she was wearing a gold jumpsuit and a fur hat, shiny and fury the perfect combination. She did a Nudist Sewing Workshop on Tuesday the 20^th (that I missed) as a part of the  Le Drapeau Noir performance program. As we chatted she sowed me some documentation photos and said she had more costumes “Should she show me” One thing led to another and low and behold I was having a dance in a Seal Suit.  Great Fun! Only could this happen at an art Festival, in a special venue with eclectic and interesting people.

Their program has something on every evening until May2 starting about 7:30 you can just go for a drink and enjoy the installed digital clock by Torsten Lauschmann.

Open from 5-11. Don’t miss it!

20/4 Radius in Motion

I started the day with a visit to Recoat A solo exhibition:  Matt Mignanelli travelled from New York to paint an installation within the space and hung a collection of new paintings. You can only see the mural for the endurance of the exhibition, apparently Recoat turn their head and look away as they paint over their mural wall every time they prepare for another show. So it exists now done by Mignanelli himself.

323 North Woodside Road, G20 6ND

Recoat Gallery presents “Alphanauts” a duo exhibition from Scottish Graffiti Artists, Rekor and Lyken at LA Bartenders new venue, 44 Houston Street

Exhibition Viewing: Thursday 22nd April 6-10pm

Auction of Artwork: Thursday 22^nd April 8.30pm

I then went over to

Entry/Exit an intervention in North Kelvin Meadow by Graham Lister. I like this piece for several reasons, this work is a

part of the artists’ community, it’s a part of a larger dialogue amongst the community that surrounds this open space; it has a history within the community and the work itself talks about the landscape and perspective, physically and conceptually. There’s a really nice story on video that I’ve posted as I was speaking to Graham about the vulnerability of the work to vandals.  I’m so pleased it has a happy ending. Take a picnic!

I was not supposed to cycle because I have a bad knee that doesn’t like it when I ride a bike, but I couldn’t resist temptation, there was a white bike outside Kelvingrove art Galleries and I used it to do my route across town and back. I left it where I found it and my knee complained. So I spent the rest of the afternoon exploring one of Radius’s on line exhibitions.

Stramash There are four audio works that are based around historical characters that have been re-invented through found text, creative writing and the voice. I think three of the characters are well known enough not to give you a background but one of them I didn’t know, and the audio work didn’t make sense until I knew this….

TAKI 183 is one of the most influential graffiti writers. His “tag” was short for Demetaki, a Greek alternative for his birth-name Demetrius, and the number 183 came from his address on 183rd Street in Washington Heights.[1] He worked as a foot messenger in New York City and would write his nickname around the New York streets that he frequented during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Knowing this made it much more enjoyable and made the audio piece come alive for me.

I love the diversity and the flexibility that the Internet can bring to Radius. I hope to be off to that temporary bar across from Stereo tonight, I’ll fill you in on the name when I know what it is.

However, popped down to hang some site photos on the entry / exit railings and found that two of the pieces had gone missing. Now, I have completed intervention-based works in the past and am well aware and prepared for stuff to get moved, broken or, as was the case here, nicked. At the end of the day, the photographs of the installation and site are the real end products when this work is finished.

I went away and typed up a little explanation piece about the work itself; about the photocopy aesthetic and reproduction of real views, and added a sentence at the end saying that if the pieces could be returned, I would be most grateful, so that others could enjoy the work as I intended…..

Low and behold, when I went down to meet and show Stephanie Spindler (curator and director of Radius) round the site, one of the stolen boards was back in situ, and the other was wrapped in a bin bag at the base of one of the sculptures! I was very pleased indeed, and even though the person / people who took the pieces might never read this, I would like to thank you / them for putting them back – makes you realise that there are really decent folk about in Glasgow.

If it was you that took one of the pieces, email me at lister_art@hotmail.com and I’ll arrange to give you the piece in question after the show is done – to say thanks for your honesty!

This day felt as if it were full of extremes. Of course I am often walking in the park with my dog, and when I start my day I make sure to check no vandalism has happened to Roundabout… It’s a beauty, don’t miss it.

I headed to GSA to have a look at Inhale/Exhale by Alice Channer.

She has masterfully collaborated with the late Mackintosh as the work sings perfectly in harmony with the space.  I think that element of working with a space that is so dramatic and articulated needs someone to pay attention and in a sense collaborate and consider the space as it were a person.

It is sensual but also vast, it speaks of the body but has no semblance of it. I really enjoyed sitting with it and feeling as if I were in the company of a giant angel…

On the other extreme; the Glue Factory is punchy, gutsy, and raw I wasn’t sure what I was walking into it. I don’t think there is another place or exhibition on in Glasgow that has the same feeling as this place. One of the works had some text that I think encapsulated the spirit of the place.

“Fear Less

Less Fear

Fear Less”

 It was too much too absorb for the amount of time I could spend there, if you like adventure and a bit of raw around the edges and  rare in the middle, don’t miss this. Give yourself plenty of time to go through it. (two to three hours) The refinement is in the art work and the energy of the exhibition.

Modern Terra, transported me to another continent… and the disturbing thing is, it brought me to my front door. This is an important and critical work that speaks of our culture, how we live, what we make of it and how we disregard. I thought it was very powerful. Modern Terra defines themes in our contemporary landscape that are so close we can lean over and touch. Allison Gibbs work, Inland Navigations Void was extremely poignant. It looks as if she will be doing a  performance May 2nd at 2pm at the sight.

 To follow the activities of the space click here

www.modernterra.blogpost.com

My Finally of the day was after trekking all the way out to Speirs Warf, as I was leaving somone had parked a White bike behind the Glue Factory. Whoo Hoo! I road it all the way home with joy in my heart. I have to add that when I was riding it through the park I saw someone I knew and waved like I was five years old, frantically full open hand beaming that somone saw me on my white bike.  I left it in front of the Kelvingrove Art Galleries. Score!

What a great day!

Today I started the day with artist Graham Lister, he was updating me on his early morning install of Entry/Exit View (# 13 in the mini skinny) an intervention installation in North Kelvin meadow. Here is a sneaky peak in case the coo’s get to it before you.

I was tipped off that Vulnerable Threads had fly posted three collages so I started my hunt. Look for these: one on Argyle st. next to the Ashoka, one down near SWG3 and one near the pedestrian bridge right at the bottom of Kelvenhaugh st. I managed two out of three and they are beauties.

 Hint look to the cover of the mini skinny for identifiable characteristics. I don’t want to post any visuals; half the fun is discovering it for yourself!

I spent the rest of the afternoon making my way along the Clyde into town to explore the Glasgow international Book Fair, it’s only on one more day Sat. 17^th, don’t miss it.

There were some beautiful and creative books and ideas about books.

The evening was spent at the Sketchbook opening at Welcome home and I’ve posted an odd interview with Phil Kay, I’m not entirely sure why he was there, but I think he was doing a documentary about art… Scary but fun.

 A quick snap and shout out to  Podcart, Welcome Home, and Central Station for a great night.

17/4 Made in the shade 10:30-17:30

HALLelujah 2 opening 2-4

The Illogic of Repeat  opening

Forest Fringe at the Arches, last night so get in there! looking forward to it.

Today was the start of the festival for me, what a better way to launch into the city with an anarchist manifesto that supports bikes for all.

It was a great gathering! White bike project

Right before the NVA event I had the privilege

of installing Roundabout. A temporary

Sculpture sent from Indiana, by artist Brian McCutcheon, long time friend and mentor. Don’t miss it if you are cutting across the park! number 14 n the mini skinny listing! Roundabout in Kelvingrove park

16/4 is all planned out, I have the morning to catch up with Graham Lister who is also installing an intervention sculpture in North Kelvin Meadow Entry /Exit ( 13 in the mini skinny listing)

Unfortunately the  Fiona Tan lecture was cancelled due to volcanic ash… so I will be spending more time at

Glasgow International Book Fair at the Glasgow Royal Concert hall. It’s only on Friday the 16th and Sat. the 17th.

I will be attending the Sketchbook Show preview at Welcome home since I have a work in it! 19 in your mini skinny

I may squeeze a few things in, in-between…but I’ll post that tomorrow!

Who: Graham Lister

What: Entry / Exit View small-scale installation / intervention

Where: North Kelvin Meadow

About: An installation/intervention in North Kelvin Meadow; linking the images to the idea of real/unreal representations.

Time: April 16^th to May 4

Who: Glasgow International Artists’ Bookfair

What: GIAB is a showcase of artists’ books produced by local, UK-based and international artists. Books as artworks, and beyond. It is a rare opportunity to access such artworks, meet the creators and purchase some original artworks, without breaking the bank.

http://www.giab.org.uk/GIAB_2010/index.html

Where: Exhibition Hall, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Time: Friday 16th & Saturday 17th of April 2010

10am – 6pm on both days

Who: Sam Stocker

What: Sam Goes to Kelivingrove

Where: Montgomery’s Café, 9 Radnor St, Glasgow G3 7ua

About: A site-specific painting installation contextually relevant to Kelvingrove Art Galleries 1901 Exhibition in Montgomery’s Café.

Time: April 16-through June 11

Who: Podcart

What: SKETCHBOOK

Where: Welcome Home 19 Keith Street, Glasgow, G11 6QQ Glasgow

About: An interactive exhibition of sketches, scribbles and inspiration from

the fingers and minds of artists, writers and musicians.

Time: April 17^th-April 25 OPEN TUES – SAT 10 – 6, SUN 12 – 5

Image by Emma McLeod

Who: Stramash Space

What: TST Text Sound Transmission

Where: http://www.stramashspace.org

About: A collaborative sound work exploring twelve artists’ unique and individual responses to the lives of historical figures. The collaboration was developed through found texts, location recordings and creative writing. The work was created as part of the class Text Sound Transmission within the sound department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Link: http://www.stramashspace.org

Who: Collins Gallery

What: A Lexicon from Liminality: searching for sense between mind and matter: Pum Dunbar

Where: Collins Gallery

University of Strathclyde

22 Richmond Street

Glasgow G1 1XQ

About: Paintings, collage and photograms are employed to capture a curious visual vocabulary which has its origins in the liminality, the transitional space between sense, perception and response. The lexicon comes from a silent, still and iconic language, imprinted with the particular idiolect of and individual with autism

When: 17 April-22 may

Image by Pum Dunbar

What: THE CLYDE IS RED:

A MANIFESTO MAYDAY MEANDER

Who: Tam Dean Burnand Linda Duru.

Starting point: Central Mosque.

Mosque Avenue Glasgow G5 9TA

When: Noon, Saturday May 1 2010

About:A ramble through the radical history of the river with Tam Dean Burnand Linda Duru. Promenade Theatre; starts on the river walkway in front of the Central Mosque Going to La Passionara statue.

What REAL DISCOVERIES UNEXPECTED REALITIES

Video installations

Who Victoria Skogsberg and Helena Öhman McCardle               

Where  University of Glasgow

Location 1: Boyd Orr Building, Lecture theatre 1, University Avenue (Victoria Skogsberg)

Location 2: McMillan Reading Room, Teaching Room 319, University Avenue (Helena Öhman McCardle)

Time Friday 23 April 2010

            Friday 30 April 2010

Location 1: Boyd Orr Building, 3pm – 8pm (Victoria Skogsberg)

Location 2: McMillan Reading Room, 11am – 5pm (Helena Öhman McCardle)

Links

http://www.victoriaskogsberg.com/press.html

www.victoriaskogsberg.com

www.helenaohman.com

Guerrilla Gardening / Seedbombing – Event that will use an area of urban waste ground and transform it with guerrilla gardening and seedbombing. A subervisve act of reclaiming a small part of the city that needs attention with interaction, awareness and fun. Working with nature to beautify an area in a short term mission with a long term outlook. Get involved where possible by either gardening, seedbombing or both to make a positive imact in their urban environment.  See link for times and places.  

www.kabloom.co.uk

What: Exhibition: Vocal Sans

Exhibition: Vocal Sans

Artists: Ciara Phillips & Jane Topping

Location: 48 King Street, 1st Floor (former Glasgow Print Studio)

Dates & Times: 16 April – 3 May, Mon. – Fri. 10am – 5pm, Sat. & Sun. 12 noon – 5pm

Preview: Sat. 17 April, 7 – 10pm

Image by Ciara Phillips

Event:  Made in the Shade

Organised by dinky, 2-gal creative business Made in the Shade, The event brings over 30 designer makers together to showcase and sell textile pieces, clothing & accessories, paper products, art, homeware and lots more. besides.their work directly to customers.  Expect off-beat

Where Galleries 4 & 5, The Lighthouse

11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU

Time 10.30am – 5pm April 17

 What:  A temporary sculpture installation in Kelvingrove park. These North American  tourists are not where they should be out of place confused by the roundabout directions and as males unwilling to ask for assistance.Typical!

 Who:  Brian McCutcheon

Look for it  in Kelvingrove Park

Links: http://www.brianmccutcheon.com/flash.html

What:Schema: A solo Exhibition by Helen Shaddock

Who: Helen Shaddock

When: exhibition Preview -Sunday 25th April 2010

Exhibition runs – 4th April – 1st May 2010

Mon – Sat 10am – 6pm Sun 11am – 6pm

Where: Che Camille, Floor 6, Argyll Chambers, 34 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G2 8BD

 About: Helen Shaddock Solo Exhibition; mixed media work addresses the human need to make order out of chaos and understand the forces around us.

 Link: http://www.helenshaddock.com

http://checamille.com/events-/schema.aspx

What:  “The Paradigm”

Who :Matt Mignanelli

About A solo exhibition: Mignanelli travelling from New York to paint an installation within the space and to hang a collection of new paintings.

Where Recoat Gallery

323 North Woodside Road

Glasgow

G20 6ND

When: April 3rd to May 2nd

Link www.recoatdesign.com

Title:  Vulnerable Threads

Artists – Sean Kenny, Caroline Hussey

Description: Collage interventions will dot the hoardings along the Clyde and Argyle Street, amongst the homogenised posters, visualising a series of reflective counterpoints to the city. (Covert operation)

Venue: G1 (along the Atypical Root and Argyle Street)

What: New European Art (part 1)

Who: Project Ability Gallery

Where: Trongate 103

Glasgow

G1 1LH

When:15th April – 22nd May 2010 Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm

Link www.project-ability.co.uk

Gallery talk: Thursday 6th May 1 – 2pm

Ninna Hultgren-Borg manager of the arts studio Inuti, Stockholm, Sweden will give a talk about Inuti and the work of exhibiting artist Fredrik Dansson.

What. New European Art (part 1 1)

Where Touchbase

Sense Scotland

43 Middlesex Street

Kinning Park

Glasgow

G41 1EE

When:15th April – 22nd May 2010 Monday  – Saturday 10am – 4pm

About:This exhibition shown across two venues stems from the momentous Outsider Art Biennale held at the Rackstad Museum in Arvika, Sweden , September 2009.  The 2009 Biennale featured work by 40 artists with disabilities who were selected from across Europe.  Project Ability is delighted to bring a selection of these diverse artists’ work to Glasgow including contributions from three Glasgow artists: Cameron Morgan, Doreen Kay and Robert Reddick.

what: Pecha Kucha 1: The Art of Speaking

who:

Sarah Munro Director, Tramway

Luke Collins  Artist

Neil Bickerton  Artist

Fiona Jardine  Artist

Thea Stevens  Art Historian

Martin Clark   Photographer          

Muscles of Joy  Musicians

Scott Myles & Darren Rhymes   Artists

David Shrigley   Artist

Kendall Koppe  Director, Washington Garcia

Erica Eyres Artist

Torsten Lauschmann  Artist

where: Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, G41 2PQ (0141 4222023)

When: 22nd of April 7-9pm

About: The Art of Speaking consists of 12 presentations by creative thinkers, each comprising of 20 images and each lasting for 6.40 minutes.

Ticketed £2.00 and the link is

Link  www.tramway.org

What: A Micro Festival by Forest Fringe

Who: Forest Fringe in collaboration with the Arches

Where: The Arches, 253 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8DL

When: Fri 16th sat 17th 2010

Time: From 7pm Ticketed £10.00

Link http://www.thearches.co.uk/A-MICRO-FESTIVAL-by-Forest-Fringe.htm

http://www.forestfringe.co.uk

About Intimate encounters, audio walks, installations, works-in-progress, secret adventures and interactive experiences by some of the most exciting artists in the UK to the Arches.

What + FLORALIA +

When:30th April – 2nd May 2010

About For three days at the end of the Glasgow International Festival, Welcome Home will present its own version of Floralia and the ludi florales. An updated and modern take on the ancient Roman festival which started the tradition of May day celebrations in all of their incarnations.

 The entire 3 floor space will be taken over for the duration, Welcome Home will host an exhibition as well as a series of events, music, performances, readings and workshops. The full line-up of artists, designers and events   are to be confirmed

Traditionally the festival symbolized the renewal of the cycle of life and was marked with dancing, drinking, and flowers. Floralia will be an exploration of tradition, performance, faith, spirituality, new ideas and ritual as well as a celebration of “life’s beauty as it blooms”. It will be a feast for the eyes and the imagination.

A modern take on the ancient Roman festival  Floralia, an exhibition as well as a series of events, music, performances, readings and workshops.

Where Welcome Home 19 Keith Street, Glasgow, G11 6QQ

Link – www.welcomehomestore.co.uk

What: Rough Luxe

About Salomeh Grace, Yvonne Mullock and Mair Hughes present new work inspired by collaborative research in to historical attractions and artefacts and the mechanics of presentation.

Where : 1st Floor, 102 Hope Street (near Stereo, Renfield Lane) G2 6PH

When  Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 – 5pm

17th April to 2nd May

Contact: 07833 958 336

What: HALLelujah 2

About: “An exhibition in the hall of the flat of artist/curator Janie Nicoll, featuring artworks in a variety of media by Alex Hetherington, Amy Marletta, Anna Francis, Hanneline Visnes, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir, Janie Nicoll, Jim Colquhoun, Karen Vaughan, Kenny Hunter, Kevin Hutcheson, Krisdy Schindler, Liz Rowe, Neil Coombs, Oliver Braid, Rachel Mimiec.”

“All fifteen featured artists are loosely linked by an interest in drawing, print and collage in all their various forms.”

Who:

Alex Hetherington

Amy Marletta

Hanneline Visnes

Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir

Janie Nicoll

Jim Colquhoun

Karen Vaughan

Kenny Hunter

Kevin Hutcheson

Krisdy Schindler

Liz Rowe

Neil Coombs

Oliver Braid

Rachel Mimiec

Where: 212 West Princes Street, Woodlands, Glasgow G4 9DL

Contact no. 00 44 141 575 9773  mob. 07971 602270

When 17th-24th April 11-5pm (not Sunday 18th) 25th – 2nd May by appointment.

opening event  Saturday 17th April 2-4 pm  tbc

What: Cleansing The House With Ink

About: A multimedia collaboration based on performance and works on paper by Thomas Jacobi, poem by David Greygoose with parallel Chinese translation by Yupin Chung,

Who: Music by Lin Fa and voice Eleanor Rees.

Followed by poetry readings and live improvisation by Harmony Chinese Music Ensemble, Eddie McGuire, Liu Fong and Eng Hoe Ling.

‘the shadow of the hand writes before the thought’

‘Brushstrokes of Breath’

‘Andrastes Hair ’

‘Eliza and the Bear’

Yupin Chung (Curator)

Thomas Jacobi (Artist)

David Greygoose (Poet)

Eleanor Rees (Poet)

Lin Fa (Musician)

Eddie McGuire (Musician)

Liu Fong (Musician)

Eng Hoe Ling (Musician)

Where: Ricefield Arts and Cultural Centre, 3rd Floor, 34 Albion Street, G1 1LH

When: Sunday 25th April, 7pm- 9.00pm

Links

http://www.ricefield.org.uk

Mo Works | Thomas Jacobi

 http://mo-works.blogspot.com/

Harmony Chinese Music Ensemble

Eleanor Rees    http://eleanorrees.com/

Cultural Links   http://culturallinks.blogspot.com/

What: The Illogic Of Repeat

Who: Fiona Jardine a nd Katy West

About: For The Illogic of Repeat, Jardine and West will present a collection of new objects and bespoke prototypes within Goodd’s gallery space.

Where:Goodd Gallery and Shop, 11 James Morrison St, Glasgow G1 5PE

When: 15th April – 15th May – 11pm/6pm

Link: http://www.good-d.com

What: Radius in Motion

About: A blog everyday from Friday the 15^th of April to May 4^th on Roots  and things that have been mapped on the Radius, Atypical, and GI journeys that will last the endurance of the festival to be published in a book that will be available for purchase.

Where: Radius in Motion

When: April 15^th  May 4^th 2010

Who: Stephanie Spindle

Host: Radius/ Central Station