Glasgow Sculpture Studios

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April 2008 Newsletter

In this issue:

Research Resource
Artist Talks
Symposium

Research Resource

Glasgow Sculpture Studios launches a new Research Resource for contemporary visual artists living and working in Scotland.

This resource is a communal hub; allowing our membership to research and discuss contemporary art. The resource itself is made up of a specialist library containing publications on a wide variety of contemporary sculptural practices, such as artist books, DVD’s and interviews, along with publications on specific technical processes.

For two weeks during Glasgow international we have opened the Research Resource up to visitors. There will be screenings of work by current members; Stuart Gurden, Katy Dove, Luke Collins, David Shrigley and Alex Gross.

Open 11am-5pm Tuesday – Friday at 141 Bridgegate Glasgow G1 5HZ

Artist Talks

Glasgow Sculpture Studios hosts two Glasgow international artist talks in our new Research Resource.

	Dani Marti Sunday, 20 April 2008 4-5pm
	Katri Walker Saturday, 26 April 2008 2-3pm

Round the corner, I was plunged into a labyrinthine space where seven video works by Dani Marti and Katri Walker are being shown. Some are in large spaces, others in tiny cubby-holes. It's inventively done. In one work, a bunch of Australian blokes camp in the Outback, and discuss art, life, lesbians and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. There are tensions in the group that pass like the weather. There are flies and thunderstorms. Another video focuses on a young homeless Glaswegian, with his chewed-up polystyrene begging cup, while others feature a Mexican woman who sings prayers for the dead, and whose hobby is baseball, and a man whom God has told to be a sculptor. There was something about a dog. The darkness is filled with lives and stories. It's all very unexpected, extremely well done and utterly disorientating. I hope future Glasgow Internationals can keep it that way.

Adrian Searle 15 April 2008 The Guardian

Symposium

Glasgow Sculpture Studios presents Private Thoughts And Public Spaces; Public Acts and Private Places a one-day, free public symposium that will explore the shifting relationships between what might be public, what may be private, and how that discussion impacts on contemporary sculptural practices.

Catalysed by both the curatorial theme of the 2008 Glasgow international Festival for Contemporary Visual Art and the work of renowned German artist and invited speaker Mischa Kuball, Private Thoughts… brings together a range of experts in their fields for a symposium of public thinking and private incitement.

Key figures from the local, national and international art world will share their thoughts and experiences, in dialogue with one another and with the public.

When

Monday, 21 April 2008 from 10-4pm

Where

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G3 6RQ

Speakers

	Pavel Büchler is an artist, lecturer and occasional writer. He is interested in what art makes possible to realise: both to think and to do….
	Claire Doherty is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at University of the West of England and Director of the Situations programme in Bristol…
	David Harding is an artist, writer and teacher. Harding was head of the Environmental Art Programme at Glasgow School of Art from it's inception in 1985…
	Mischa Kuball has worked conceptually with light for more than twenty years. Throughout that time he has encroached and altered public spaces with his temporary light installations…
	Christine Nippe is a curator, writer and researcher based in Berlin…

Find out more about the speakers.

The symposium will be chaired by Ruth Barker. Barker is a Glasgow based artist, writer and editor of the Public Art Resource and Research Scotland (PAR+RS) website, a co-director of Washington Garcia Gallery, Glasgow, and a board member of Glasgow Sculpture Studios.