OERSTED

RASMUS DANØ, SØREN HÜTTEL, DIRTY MAC, DAN MILLER, STEFF NORWOOD, KEV POLLOCK

Tree God, Mixed media on paper, 29cm x4 2cm, 2014. Image courtesy the artist (Photographer: Dan Miller).

Oersted will feature new work by six artists from Glasgow and Copenhagen. It will incorporate a wide range of media to create a dynamic and immersive audiovisual environment – a place of intermittent ocular and auricular experience.

The exhibition is named after the Danish chemist Hans Christian Oersted, who was the first person to produce aluminium in 1825. This discovery is directly linked to the industrial legacy of the site, which included the operation of an illegal smelt during the 1970’s. The title creates a dynamic link between the exhibition context and the manipulation of material, taking further inspiration from Oersted’s pioneering research into electromagnetism and acoustics.

Hopeful Landscape, Mixed media on paper, 11cm x 20cm, 2014. Image courtesy the artist (Photographer: Dan Miller).

Oersted is hosted and supported through WAVEparticle’s AiA (Artists in Arches) initiative, one of three dynamic spaces included in their Open Spaces programme. Over the past two years WAVEparticle have worked in partnership with the New Gorbals Housing Association and Urban Union to deliver the Art & Living: Laurieston strategic plan.

The inception of this project can be traced back to my first meeting with Rasmus Danø during the 2007 Supermarket art fair in Stockholm. We became firm friends and organised an exchange exhibition between Glasgow and Copenhagen in 2008. I first met Søren Hüttel during the installation of Through the Looking Glass at SWG3. It soon became clear that we all shared very similar artistic concerns and methodologies. Since 2008 we have exhibited together across Scandinavia, including Copenhagen, Malmø and Esbjerg.

I’ve worked collaboratively with Dirty Mac, Steff Norwood, Kev Pollock for the last ten years on a variety of collaborative projects and group exhibitions. The Cleland Lane arches provide the perfect context for the Glaswegian and Danish artists to work together on this ambitious large-scale project.

Spinalonga, Letterpress ink and lino cut on paper, 20cm x 25cm, 2014. Image courtesy the artist (Photographer: Dan Miller)

I’ll be working collaboratively with Dirty Mac to present a live audiovisual performance, concentrating on the themes of resolution, distortion and fidelity. I’m currently editing footage for a multi-channel synchronized video projection that will act as a catalyst for Mac’s sonic performance. For the exhibition I’ll be presenting a new series of digital banners and paintings. These allegorical works will investigate the legacy of capitalist realism and the territories of ratio and repetition.

OERSTED

RASMUS DANØ, SØREN HÜTTEL, DIRTY MAC, DAN MILLER, STEFF NORWOOD, KEV POLLOCK

Artists in Arches
Arches 1-3,
Cleland Lane,
Glasgow,
G5 9DS

Fri 8th April – Mon 25th April 2016
Mon – Sun, 1.30pm – 6pm

Preview Friday 8th April: 6pm
Live audiovisual performance Friday 8th April: 7pm

Scheduled performances will take place throughout the festival.
For more information and updates: www.oersted.industries

Supported by WAVEparticle and The Danish Arts Foundation.

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