The Common Guild is collaborating with The Glasgow School of Art to present artist Tarik Kiswanson for a Friday Event as part of the School of Fine Art’s long-running lecture series.

In October, The Common Guild presents Tarik Kiswanson, ‘The Rupture’, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK. ‘The Rupture’ is a significant exhibition of newly commissioned and recently conceived artworks, as well as the first exhibition to take place in our new permanent premises at 5 Florence Street, a former school building in Glasgow. 

Tarik Kiswanson (b. 1986, Halmstad) is a visual artist and poet based in Paris. His work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, most recently Portikus, Frankfurt, Oakville Galleries, Ontario (both 2024), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2023), Salzburger Kunstverein (2023), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2023), M HKA-Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2022), Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad (2022) and Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes (2021).  

In 2023, Kiswanson was awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp, and has recently been awarded the 2024 Fondazione Henraux International Sculpture Prize. Kiswanson’s current exhibition, ‘A Century’ is presented at Portikus, Frankfurt until September 2024.  .

The Friday Event is a visiting speaker series presented by the School of Fine Art (SoFA) at The Glasgow School of Art. With a long illustrious past and a bright future, the series hosts artists, writers, curators, academics, students and other cultural figures, welcoming and broadening dialogue and knowledge of local and international fields. Happening on campus and online, the Friday Event is always open to all.

Event Details

11am - 12.30pm, Friday 1 November 2024.

Free to attend. No booking required.

Location

Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art,164 Renfrew Street Glasgow G3 6RQ

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan will present The Glasgow School of Art's next Friday Event, as part of their long-running lecture series. Delivered in collaboration with The Common Guild, Abu Hamdan’s lecture will take place on Zoom.

Abu Hamdan will discuss his artistic practice as a 'Private Ear'; listening to, with, and on behalf of people affected by corporate, state, and environmental violence. His work has been presented in the form of forensic reports, lectures and live performances, films, publications, and exhibitions all over the world.

His audio investigations have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and been a key part of advocacy campaigns for organisations such as Amnesty International, Defence for Children International and Forensic Architecture.

In June 2024, Abu Hamdan will present 'Live Audio Essays' with The Common Guild as part of Glasgow International.

The Friday Event is a visiting speaker series presented by the School of Fine Art (SoFA) at The Glasgow School of Art. With a long illustrious past and a bright future, the series hosts artists, writers, curators, academics, students and other cultural figures, welcoming and broadening dialogue and knowledge of local and international fields. Happening on campus and online, the Friday Event is always open to all.

Event Details

The Friday Event will be streamed online on Friday 22 March from 11am – 12.30pm.

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The Common Guild is collaborating with The Glasgow School of Art to present a Friday Event with artist Corin Sworn as part of  the School of Fine Art’s long-running lecture series. 

Corin Sworn works with performance, video, distributed narrative, and installation, using storytelling, material encounters and interactive technologies as tools of enquiry. Sworn is interested in the art gallery as a communicative apparatus, and as a site for opening investigation into technological devices. In her installations, apparently nascent technologies, from robot ‘vision’ systems to cloud computing, become framing devices through which to think, reflect and imagine. 

Previous projects have employed “to-do” lists and artificial sweeteners; depicted chemical interactions as colour fields; and have explored the history of the camera as a technology that separated knowledge from the body.

Sworn is currently working with The Common Guild on the investigative performance series ‘Moving in Relation’ (2021-present). This series brings together collaborators working in movement, sound and academic thought to research material encounters with algorithmic thought, datafication and its influence on physical bodies.

 Corin Sworn’s exhibitions include: Cumulo with URRA Buenos Aires (2022); OCAT Shenzhen (2021) Edinburgh Art Festival (2019); Gallery Arsenal, Poland (2016); Toronto Film Festival (2016); Collezione Maramotti, Italy (2015); Whitechapel Gallery, UK (2015); Langen Foundation, Germany (2015); Sydney Biennial, Australia (2014); Scotland+Venice at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Art Now, Tate Britain (2011).

Sworn was awarded the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2014 and a Leverhulme Prize in 2016. She is Professor of Contemporary Art at Northumbria University and works with Kendall Koppe Gallery.

The Friday Event is a visiting speaker series presented by the School of Fine Art (SoFA) at The Glasgow School of Art. With a long illustrious past and a bright future, the series hosts artists, writers, curators, academics, students and other cultural figures, welcoming and broadening dialogue and knowledge of local and international fields. Happening on campus and online, the Friday Event is always open to all.

Project Details

The Friday Event takes place on Friday 10 March at 11am – 12.30pm in person at the Reid Lecture Theatre and online.

Location

Reid Building, 164 Renfrew Street Glasgow G3 6RQ

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Tickets

Friday Events are open to all. Non-GSA attendees should book a free ticket below.

Attend Online

The Friday Event will be streamed online.

In collaboration with Glasgow School of Art, The Common Guild presents London-based artist Janice Kerbel as part of the ‘Friday Event’ series in the context of 'DOUG’, Kerbel’s project for The Common Guild.

Event Details

Glasgow School of Art’s 'Friday Event' series has been running since the early 1990s and brings major international speakers including artists, architects, designers, historians, and cultural theorists to Glasgow, opening debate to a diverse audience from across the city.

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The Common Guild presented artist Gabriel Kuri as part of The Glasgow School of Art’s ‘Friday Event’ series. Kuri talked about his work and his project for The Common Guild, in discussion with Katrina Brown, Director of The Common Guild.

Event Details

Glasgow School of Art’s Friday Event series has been running since the early 1990s and brings major international speakers including artists, architects, designers, historians, and cultural theorists to Glasgow, opening debate to a diverse audience from across the city.

The Common Guild presente artist Thomas Demand as part of The Glasgow School of Art’s ‘Friday Event’ series. Demand discusses his involvement in ‘When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013’ a remaking of the seminal exhibition ‘Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form’, curated by Harald Szeemann.

Event Details

Glasgow School of Art’s Friday Event series has been running since the early 1990s and brings major international speakers including artists, architects, designers, historians, and cultural theorists to Glasgow, opening debate to a diverse audience from across the city.