Influences

Exhibitions, Events, Performances, Experiences, Films, etc ….

Copy Wrong - Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, 4 October – 1 November

SIC Technology, Adam Zaretsky and The pFARM Collective, Paul Vanouse,The Institute for Post Natural History
Friday 3 October, 6-8pm, including live performance, ‘Latent Figure Protocol’ by Paul Vanouse
In the current climate of collaborations between art and science, this exhibition investigates the practices of four artists predominantly based in USA. Focusing on the rights and wrongs of ownership and reproduction in relation to new technologies, this unorthodox body of work questions the role of science and art in our lives. SIC Technology’s film ‘SERVEX’ presents a sci-fi future for the Scottish population. Adam Zaretsky and pFARM are based in Woodstock, New York. Their performances, farm and laboratory combine three subcultures of biotech company, sado-masochism and organic farming. Copy Wrong is curated by Caz McIntee.

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Cupar Arts Festival 2008 – “El Paso Vs El Paso”, Alexander Guy & William Caulfield. “Runway 22 Coltishall”, Gair Dunlop. “Fifeman”, Alan Grieve, Peter Haining, Jason Nelson, Kevin Reid. “Inside Out” Liz Skulina, Jill Skulina, Adrienna McStay. Paola McClure. “Funtime Days” Valerie Norris & Andrea Sayers.

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Straylight Cavern: Cell Project Space – Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, 15 November – 13 December

Jonathan Baldock, Michael Bell-Smith, Rick Buckley, Aisling Hedgecock, Ian Monroe, Takeshi Murata, Milika Muritu, Angelo Plessas, Richard Priestley, Rafaël Rozendaal

The title of the exhibition ‘Straylight Cavern’ is derived from cyberpunk author and sci-fi visionary William Gibsons’ Villa Straylight in his novel ‘Neuromancer’. The Villa Straylight is a cyber-chateau of sorts, inhabited by cyberdiegheties where anything and everything is possible. Straylight Cavern offers the viewer a realm of possible otherworlds and dimensions, inspired by memories of Villa Straylight and its inhabitants, but goes on to refer to other science fictional situations where mankind has colonised natural rock or ice formations in order to survive, such as the rebel bunker, Echo Base, on the ice planet, ‘Hoth’, in Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, or the androids cave in Michael Anderson’s film ‘Logan’s Run’. The interior of the cavern encounters the amalgamation and communion of various artists works and interventions. Straylight Cavern is a continuum of Richard Priestley’s curatorial approach to his art practice in which he provides the construct of the scenario in which the artists he has selected are to be shown.

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Das Experiment. Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel. Per. Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokoski. 2001. Sony Pictures, 2003

Ganghut Documentary, Bristol Spike Island

La Haine. Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz. Per. Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui. 1995. Tartan Video 2001

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A Beautiful Day: Interno3 – Hannah Maclure Centre, 24 November 2008 – 30 January 2009

In an interaction between high-tech and low-fi, A Beautiful Day presents a series of deconstructed micro-stories of daily perception and experience in an environmental context.  The exhibition narrative is an audiovisual sculpture that exposes the parts of electronic devices; it fragments the vision, picks apart sensations and undermines the nature of events.  Interno3 analyses sounds’ and images’ rifts, glitches and repeated loops, creating an understanding of the use of technology as a fundamental aspect in contemporary art practice.

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Sophie Calle – a French artist who works with photographs and performances, placing herself in situations almost as if she and the people she encounters were fictional. She also imposes elements of her own life onto public places creating a personal narrative where she is both author and character. She has been called a detective and a voyeur and her pieces involve serious investigations as well as natural curiosity. Tate Britain Link

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Paul Carter – often engages with the activities of individuals aspiring to take ownership of global, political and existential issues. His constructions raise big ideas while maintaining a DIY aesthetic, the result of a marriage between the universal and the local, creating visionary scenarios that sit somewhere between fact and fiction, between the universal and the personal.

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Michael Stone – art terrorist, Loyalist murderer or performance art ? more

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Hannah Wilke conceptual – sculpture, drawing, assemblage, photography, performance and installation. more

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Need to read – I Love Dick by Chris Kraus http://www.semiotexte.com/books/iLoveDick.html