Discussion / Sarah Thelwall ‘Size Matters’
Sarah Thelwall is the author of ‘Size Matters: Notes towards a Better Understanding of the Value, Operation and Potential of Small Visual Arts Organisations’ commissioned by Common Practice, London.
Thelwall presents a paper on the economy and value of the small-scale visual arts sector in the UK in relation to the position of Flexibly Funded visual arts organisations in Scotland.
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Exhibition Talk / Dr Sarah Lowndes on Thea Djordjadze
Thea Djordjadze, 'Lost Promise in a Room', installation view, The Common Guild (2011).
Glasgow-based lecturer, curator and writer, Dr. Sarah Lowndes presents a talk on the work of Thea Djordjadze and her exhibition 'Lost Promise in a Room' at The Common Guild.
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Roundtable Conversation / Sara Barker & Charlotte Day on Thea Djordjadze
Thea Djordjadze, 'Untitled' (2010). Paint, concrete, plaster, sponge © Thea Djordjadze. Courtesy Sprüth Magers, Berlin / London.
Roundtable Conversations offer an opportunity to develop various lines of enquiry prompted by exhibitions at The Common Guild. This event focuses on the work of Thea Djordjadze and included contributions from artist Sara Barker and Charlotte Day, Associate Curator at ACCA, Melbourne.
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Roundtable Conversations are free to attend and limited to a capacity of ten participants.
Attendees are encouraged to participate in the discussion.
Refreshments and light snacks are available.
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Thea Djordjadze – 'Lost Promise in a Room'
Thea Djordjadze, 'Untitled' (2010). Paint, concrete, plaster, sponge © Thea Djordjadze. Courtesy Sprüth Magers, Berlin / London.
Djordjadze’s sculptures range from intimate hand-held objects to large architectural forms. Often referencing the body through the suggestion of clothing or furniture, her sculptures allude to familiar forms through their scale, shape and surface. Despite this familiarity, her work often appears to come from another time or place, or to suggest a previous existence or forthcoming use.
Thea Djordjadze – 'Lost Promise in a Room', installation view, The Common Guild (2011).
Working with a range of commonplace materials such as plaster, cardboard, wood and fabric, Djordjadze creates fragile, hand-made objects that appear partially constructed and partially destroyed. Djordjadze presents these hand-made objects alongside found items such as photographs, carpets and clothing suggesting ritualistic use or religious shrines. By utilising display mechanisms like shelves, plinths, tables and cabinets within the work she aligns the objects with something between the ethnographic museum and the fetishised collection.
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Discussion / Structure & Material & Gender
Image credit: Karla Black, Persuader Face, 2011. Installation detail Longside Gallery, March 2011. Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photo: Jonty Wilde.
This event offers an opportunity to discuss the work of the three artists exhibiting in 'Structure & Material' and question whether this show makes it possible, or even appropriate, to consider their practice in relation to gender.
With contributions from artists Claire Barclay and Becky Beasley, Katrina Brown, Director, The Common Guild; Helen Legg, Director, Spike Island, Bristol and Francis McKee, Director, CCA, Glasgow.
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This event took place as part of ‘Structure & Material’, an Arts Council Collection exhibition curated by Katrina Brown and Caroline Douglas, first shown at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
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Exhibition Talk / Dr Dominic Paterson on ‘“You seem the same as always,-”’
'You seem the same as always, -' installation view The Common Guild (2011). Photo: Kendall Koppe.
Dr. Dominic Paterson, writer and art historian based at the University of Glasgow, offers his thoughts on the exhibition “You seem the same as always, -”.
“You seem the same as always, -” includes film, video, photography, prints, drawings and objects by Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Olafur Eliasson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra and David Shrigley, all of which share an acute and refreshing sense of immediacy and directness, but vary from the witty to the uncanny.
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Roundtable Conversation / Charlotte Prodger & Neil Clements on '"You seem the same as always, -"'
'You seem the same as always, -' installation view The Common Guild (2011). Photo: Kendall Koppe.
This Roundtable Conversation focuses on the exhibition “You seem the same as always, -” and features contributions from artists Charlotte Prodger and Neil Clements.
“You seem the same as always, -” includes film, video, photography, prints, drawings and objects by Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Olafur Eliasson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra and David Shrigley, all of which share an acute and refreshing sense of immediacy and directness, but vary from the witty to the uncanny.
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Roundtable Conversations are free to attend and limited to a capacity of ten participants. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the discussion. Refreshments and light snacks are available.
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Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Olafur Eliasson, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, Gabriel Orozco, Yvonne Rainer, Richard Serra and David Shrigley – 'You seem the same as always, -'
Yvonne Rainer, 'Hand Movie' (1966). 8 mm film transferred to DVD (still). Courtesy of the artist and Video Data Bank.
“You seem the same as always, -” brought together a range of works by international and Glasgow-based artists, which share a very particular focus: that of the artist’s own hand. The exhibition included film, video, photography, prints, drawings and objects, all of which share a refreshing sense of immediacy and directness and vary from the witty to the uncanny.
'You seem the same as always, -' installation view The Common Guild (2011). Photo: Kendall Koppe.
“You seem the same as always, -” was rich in echoes of art history, not least in the title, which originates in correspondence between Sol Le Witt and Eva Hesse and is cited in Kate Davis’ work. The exhibition reflected the extent to which, even when faced with an ever-increasing range of media and new technologies, there remains a recurrent fascination with and recourse to the most constant and immediate tool: his or her own hand. The gathering of works reflected our enduring interest in the artist as author and the biography behind the work, most explicitly in the work by Feldmann that is comprised of handprints of some of the 20th century’s most famous artists.
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Roundtable Conversation / Graham Eatough & Ruth Barker on Ulla von Brandenburg
Ulla von Brandenburg, 'Chorspiel' (2010) (film still). Courtesy of the artist and art: concept, Paris.
Roundtable Conversations offer an opportunity to develop various lines of enquiry prompted by the exhibitions at The Common Guild. This event will focus on the work of Ulla von Brandenburg and will include short presentations by theatre director Graham Eatough and artist Ruth Barker.
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Roundtable Conversations are free to attend and limited to a capacity of ten participants. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the discussion. Refreshments and light snacks are available.
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Exhibition Talk / Jenny Brownrigg on Ulla von Brandenburg
Ulla von Brandenburg, 'Chorspiel' (2010) (film still). Courtesy of the artist and art: concept, Paris.
Jenny Brownrigg, Exhibitions Director at The Glasgow School of Art, offered her thoughts on the work of Ulla von Brandenburg and her exhibition 'Neue Alte Welt'.
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Ulla von Brandenburg – 'Neue Alte Welt'
Ulla von Brandenburg, 'Chorspiel' (2010) (film still). Courtesy of the artist and art: concept, Paris.
Ulla von Brandenburg’s work alludes to the shared history of story telling, from Greek tragedy to folk legend, and the archetypes used in them. Ranging from recurring literary characters to universal concepts such as family, love, time, life and death, von Brandenburg uses familiar symbols to bring together the real and the unreal. As she explains ‘I am very interested in artificiality, but absurdity interests me too.’
Von Brandenburg uses a wide range of media including drawing, painting, installation, performance and film and draws upon many aspects of European cultural heritage, from ancient folklore to Romanticism and the idea of the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ (or total work of art). Artistic synthesis runs through her work, referencing a range of movements from the Renaissance to the Bauhaus.
The exhibition included the remarkable ‘Chorspiel’ (2010) a three-part, opera-like film featuring five characters from three generations. Referencing Ingmar Bergman, who often wrote his own screenplays, the film includes music written by the artist. Brandenburg’s films not only explore how narrative unfolds through performance, but the role of the narrator or conscience in the telling or enactment of a story. Accompanied by a group of evocative objects, including fabric panels marked by extended exposure to the sun, von Brandenburg’s work appears at once historic and futuristic.
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Roundtable Conversation / Ruth Barker, Steven Cairns & Kate Davis on Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean, ‘Prisoner Pair’ (film still) (2008). Courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.
Roundtable Conversations offer an opportunity to develop various ideas prompted by exhibitions at The Common Guild.
This event focuses on the work of Tacita Dean and her exhibition at The Common Guild, and includes contributions by Ruth Barker, artist and editor of PAR+RS, , Steven Cairns, artist and editor of MAP, and artist, Kate Davis.
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Roundtable Conversations are free to attend and limited to a capacity of ten participants. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the discussion. Refreshments and light snacks are available.
