What art have I seen?
Glimpse, Will Levi Marshall and Donald Urquhart, 2013. Photo Chris Fremantle
Glimpse, Will Levi Marshall and Donald Urquhart, 2013. Photo Chris Fremantle
Glimpse, one of the Featured Projects in the Environmental Art Festival Scotland, is an ephemeral installation just off the A701 – we went into the woods at the Barony, but perhaps the best way to see the work is as you travel along the road between Dumfries and Moffat.
What art have I seen?
Cinema Sark, Prof Pete Smith and John Wallace, 2013. Photo Chris Fremantle
Cinema Sark, Prof Pete Smith and John Wallace, 2013. Photo Chris Fremantle
Cinema Sark at the Environmental Art Festival Scotland. It’s not often that video presented as sited work so elegantly uses it’s setting, or so engrosses the viewer. This work is a meditation on the many dimensions of the Sark, the river that divides Scotland and England in the West. The space under the M6 motorway is both a constant reminder of the context, but also an ideal location for the screening.
Velocity Talks 19 September
Jackie Sands, Arts & Health Senior, Health Improvement, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and I (as Project Manager for Ginkgo Projects) have been asked to give one of the Velocity Talks. It’s take place at the Lighthouse in Glasgow on the 19th of September, its free, but please book a place here.
Jackie will talk about the 6 year public art strategy she’s implemented across now perhaps 10 new healthcare facilities, and I’ll talk about the strategy for the New South Glasgow Hospitals as a key example.
What art have I seen?
Sam Durant’s work first shown at Documenta. Photo Chris Fremantle
Failure
Beach structure. Photo Chris Fremantle
Simon Biggs and the CIRCLE (Creative Interdisciplinary Research in Collaborative Environments) have a day called Glitch’d: Purposeful Mistakes at Edinburgh College of Art next week. They say,
The glitch is the defect or malfunction; when technology misbehaves. Distinct from noise, which corrupts information, the glitch affects the decisions our technologies increasingly make for us, amplifying the outcome. This one day event, encompassing promenade performance, an intelligent search engine, technological demonstration, dance performance and manipulated light installation, explores how interactive media art projects can offer insights into the affects and effects of the glitch.
Info here.
What art have I seen?
Sarah Kenchington’s Wind Pipes, 2013. Photo Chris Fremantle
Sarah Kenchington’s Wind Pipes for Edinbugh
Another World Is Possible – What about an Anonymous Istanbul Biennial?
Anonymity is perhaps the best resistance to the market, and the most provocative challenge to artists.
via Ahmet Ögüt
I never performed for the media. I tried to reach people. It was not acting. It was not some media muppet show. That is a cynical interpration of history. *
Abbie Hoffman* After his act at New York Stock Exchange, hurling/throwing one-dollar bill at the brokers.
On May 25, 2013, just before the beginning of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, I co-signed a letter by more than 100 arts and cultural practitioners that invited the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) and 13th Istanbul Biennial curatorial team to change their authoritarian reflex and judgmental attitude to the protest staged on March 10th at a Biennial-sponsored event and to rethink the proposed structure of the 13th Istanbul Biennial.
Although I could argue in support of several concerns that were pointed out in the letter, one reason alone was enough to sign it: It was…
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What art have I seen?
Photo Chris Fremantle
Hamish Fulton at Maureen Paley.
and I think Fulton has a good sense of humour.
Professor Gavin Renwick on “working with elders” 22 August, Ayr
ayr converses presentation/conversation
Be Strong Like Two People: Learning from the Elders of the Tlicho First Nation People in the North West Territories of Canada
Gavin Renwick, Professor and Canada Chair of Design, University of Alberta
Thursday 22 August 2013 : 6pm – 9pm : Ayr Auld Kirk Hall (Upper Hall)
Gavin Renwick, Professor and Canada Chair of Design at the University of Alberta, has spent more than ten years working with the Tlicho first nation people in the North West Territories of Canada on their land claim to the Canadian Government. Renwick was until recently Professor of Art and Policy at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, where he continues to be a visiting professor. His role with the Tlicho has been as a cultural intermediary assisting with the articulation of the understanding of land and inhabitation of the Tlicho, who are a nomadic people.
Renwick has regularly reported on key aspects of the thinking of the Elders, particularly around their relationships with young people. In his presentation, Gavin Renwick will explore the Elders understanding of the pressures on the young. First, the need to be “strong like two people”, which is a reference to the need for young people to be both strong in their own culture and strong in western culture. The second is the need to be “modern in your own language”, which clearly sets out one way to address the first challenge.
Gavin Renwick is originally from Motherwell. He was brought up among the last generation of Lanarkshire people who worked in coal, iron and steel. He has realised projects across Europe, as well as in Turkey and Canada. His present work utilises practice-led methods that place the practitioner-researcher as a cultural intermediary between indigenous and metropolitan culture. His applied and curatorial practice aims to facilitate cultural continuity for traditional communities. For the past decade he has been working between Scotland and the Canadian Northwest Territories, most recently for the Tlicho (formerly Dogrib) Dene community of Gameti as founder and coordinator of Gameti Ko, an incorporated society directed by a board of Elders.
The presentation/conversation will be chaired by Chris Fremantle, ayr converses co-founder with Lianne Hackett.
Following the presentation and Q&A, there will be the opportunity to converse with a glass of wine or soft drink. A small collection will be made towards venue hire and refreshments.
Please confirm your attendance by Friday 16 August info@ayrconverses.org.uk
CHRIS FREMANTLE 
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