28/4 Radius in Motion

New Work from Europe Touch Base, 43 Middlesex st. Kinning Park G41 1EE

Vulnerable threads Argyle and Kelvinhaugh st

Vestiges Park Glasgow Sculpture Studios

Prologue Endless Renovation,

New Work from Europe A selection of work from the Outsider Art Biennale held at the Rackstad Museum in Arvika, Sweden. It’s a little out of the way, Touch Base, 43 Middlesex st. Kinning Park G41 1EE, but I find that most exhibitions produced by Project Ability are filled with stunners.  There are some incredibly honest and genuine paintings that are full of joy, after Christoph Büchel New Commission it reminds me that art has a vast spectrum of impact, and these works are worth going to see. The energy and sophistication these paintings have can only come from a lack of inhibitions on the

artist part and I would like to have lived with these paintings; they remind me of why I am interested in art, intimacy, expression, beauty, and imagination. I will be checking out the other half of this collection of paintings at Project Ability, Trongate 103.

Vulnerable Threads have splendour of a work on the corner of Argyle and

Kelvinhaugh st. It is something that your eye just goes to and is in an innocuous corner, it’s more of a habitat that surrounds this work; the idea of fly posting on top of remnants is so exciting and finding the work that has been secretly posted by Vulnerable Threads. I have really enjoyed hunting them down and seeing them in an environment that everyone can access.

Vestiges Park A lowsalt exhibition. So fun and wonderful. Mythical, a secret country brought to light by the OOlite Sisterhood. I spent an hour in the park exploring the work, it really wasn’t enough time, and I hope I can go back. There are 15 to 18 different works, it’s a little hard to tell as they are all part of the environment, there’s a beautiful map that helps you navigate through this small park that feels so much

bigger. I’m going to include images to wet your appetite, you do the rest!

Prologue: Endless Renovation, Corin Sworn, Washington Garcia

There is beautiful simplicity to this work in its conception and in it’s aesthetic. Discovering the identity of someone through slides that have been thrown away, the audio of this exhibition is slightly difficult to hear, but they have printed the transcript for you and you can read it later, the idea stays in my mind as I wander away from the exhibition. My curiosity is peaked. It is the opposite of indifferent but not quite love.

Events coming up

Saturday May1 THE CLYDE IS RED: A MANIFESTO MAYDAY MEANDER

A ramble through the radical history of the river with Tam Dean Burn and Linda Duru. Starts on the river walkway in front of the Central Mosque Going to La Passionara statue.

Meet 12:00 Central Mosque

Mosque Avenue

Glasgow

G5 9TA

Saturday May1 International Sunflower Guerilla Gardening Day

18:00- 21:00 meet Clyde walkway

Clyde St

A subversive act of reclaiming a small part of the city that needs attention with interaction and fun. Working with nature to beautify an abandoned urban area in a short term mission with a long term outlook

Get involved in some guerrilla gardening, seedbombing or both to make a positive impact in your urban environment!

What to bring (optional): a bedding plant / gloves / a trowel / sunflower seeds No experience nessesary, just drop by and join in the responsible rebellion! This is a Radius event in association with Kabloom and Glasgow Guerrilla Gardening

SUNDAY 2ND MAY 2010: 12-5: This is the final Atypical Root party, which hosts the Launch of the Govan Armada, Bike-So-Cool, and an exhibition at the Govanheim. Riverside Hall will be providing food, and Govan Fire Brigade will be present, showing off their fancy fire engine. This is your final chance to see the trail- you can join the Bike-So-Cool convoy, leaves at 12 noon from David Dale Gallery (Bridgeton) travelling through town via GI exhibitions to reach Clydebrae Street for the Launch of the Govan Armada at 2.30.

Time-table:

12-1 Judging of boats

1-1.30 Welcome by local councellor

Blessing of the Armada

Announcement of prizes

2.30-3.30 Launch of the Govan Armada

3-5 Bike-So-Cool/ Govanheim

This is a chance to meet the Atypical Root artists, check out several Atypical artworks and Root projects, see the AMAZING Govan Graving/Dry Docks, and munch on the finest Riverside Hall burgers (free to the first 100 people)… and more.

Spin tour, The Common Guild, Roundabout, Kelvingrove Art Galleries, David Shrigley, Tramway the Tea Party

Spin is great! http://www.glasgowinternational.org/index.php/events/view/spin_off/ You could probably still book a tour if you haven’t yet. Today we started at The Common Guild; a gallery in the home of Douglas Gordon, posh and a beautiful space to see a show, I’m going to refrain from saying anything about the show until I see the off site film by Gerard Byrne at the Gi hub. This work is layered and I tried to describe understanding it like doing a complicated math problem in my head. It can be confusing but the show is done well, it’s contemplative and reflective.

We then did a short walk through the park and I was invited to talk about Brian McCutcheons’ work Roundabout. The people on the tour were disappointed to hear it was only a temporary installation, meaning they thought it was great fun and they enjoyed it. I had one person on the tour ask how I got the pole installed.

David Shrigley at Kelvingrove Art Gallery. This show was very humorous and I enjoyed Shrigley’s light heartedness and simplicity. This work operates on many levels and I like the immediacy of the shapes, materials and willingness to have it be what it is, and that’s what he meant.  Don’t miss the drawers, this is in the research library on the second level. The drawers …

Off to the Mitchell Library, we were lucky enough to have a talk by Kendall Koppe  (the founding director of Washington Garcia) about the work.

This was my second time at the exhibition and I liked it as much if not more the second time around, sometimes art is like that, a little time to help digest the space and the work in context.

I will be off to the Tramway to see The Party  it is a collaborative project in the tradition of The Theatre of the Absurd and includes characters of an artist, designer, philosopher/critic and ingénue.

Mary Mary Gallery presents

Artists: Alexis Marguerite Teplin

Tomorrow is Sunday the 25^th I will be attending the private view of Schema  by Helen Shaddock at Che Camilles at 13:00 on from 12:00-5:00, music at 13:00 and 3:00; I will then be off to Atypical Root to explore performances by Anthony Shragg and other artists along the Clyde. I hope they get as nice weather as today. It will be a great day out.  I will also be attending Cleansing The House With Ink

Ricefield Arts and Cultural Centre. 25/4

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

19.00 – 21.00 Sun 25 Apr 2010

Ricefield Arts and Cultural Centre

3rd Floor

34 Albion Street (enter via 32 Albion Street)

G1 1LH

This event is free but

Booking recommended.

info@ricefield.org.uk

Feel free to meet me at Schema for a walk and a chat about the festival; I would love to hear how people are finding the festival and if Radius has been something that they have followed.