VisualArt This sporting life
To mark the Commonwealth Games handover from Delhi to Glasgow, six Scottish artists will screen new films across the city. Here the artists introduce their works ‘Linda Fratianne’
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T H E B E S T E X H I B I T I O N S
✽✽ 3D 2D: Object and Illusion in Print Fascinating exploration of modern processes in printmaking which happily combine art, science and theory. Edinburgh Printmakers, until Sat 30 Oct. ✽✽ Tatham O’Sullivan: Direct Serious Action is Therefore Necessary The Glasgow-based interventionist artists create work that responds to the architecture and history of CCA. Reviewed next issue. CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 13 Nov. ✽✽ Richard Wright New work from Richard Wright, which surprises with its complex simplicity. The Modern Institute, Glasgow, until Sat 23 Oct. ✽✽ Babette Mangolte New work from the New York-based filmmaker, which chronicles her relationship with choreographer Yvonne Rainer. Reviewed next issue. Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, until Fri 29 Oct. ✽✽ V&A at Dundee: Making it Happen A chance to see the six designs offered up by leading architects for Scotland’s new design centre on Dundee’s waterfront. See News, page 7. University of Abertay, until Thu 4 Nov. ✽✽ James Hugonin Exhibition of seven paintings created to coincide with the renowned abstract painter’s 60th birthday. See review, page 90. Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 20 Nov. ✽✽ Raydale Dower The artist and musician explores the notion of sound as sculpture in this mixed media work. Reviewed next issue. The Changing Room, Stirling, until Sat 4 Dec. ✽✽ Walls of Light Six artist films created to mark the Commonwealth Games Handover from Delhi to Glasgow. See preview, left. Various venues across Glasgow, from Thu 14 Oct. 7–21 Oct 2010 THE LIST 89
Henry Coombes ‘Red Palmer’ In the Black Gnat factory near Thomson’s Falls in Kenya, 8000ft above sea level, local women tie traditional Scottish trout flies to be exported to British fly fishing market. With names like Red Palmer and Zulu and Grouse, a great proportion of traditional fishing flies are now tied in Kenya. I find this relationship between two commonwealth cultures inspiring, making for a poetic documentary entwining themes of nature, commerce, and cultural tradition. Alex Hetherington ‘Linda Fratianne’ ‘Linda Fratianne’ is a multi-screen film of a devised performance, which orchestrates complex, often abrasive, materials. It is based on a story by the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek with references to vaudeville, film noir, theatrical and cinematic styles, performance art and televised sports to explore through gestures, texts and improvised sequences, notions of spectacle/spectatorship, inspection and judgment, violence and failure, glamour and persistence. Calum Stirling ‘The Double Diamond’ Working with the book Besoin de V é l o by French writer Paul Fournel, ‘Double Diamond’ takes us through the physical and philosophical landscape of a cyclist using voiceover, idiosyncratic filming and cycle sound recording techniques against the backdrop of the Scottish landscape to transport us into a cycling world both familiar and unfamiliar. Filmed across Scotland from Dumfries to Sutherland the video includes passages of fact, illusion and speculation referring en route to Scotland’s long association with
the bicycle, from Kirkpatrick Macmillan to Robert Millar, Graham Obree and Chris Hoy. Clara Ursitti ‘PB’ A portrait of the diverse community of Shettleston Harriers, one of the oldest athletic clubs in Scotland. From its modest beginnings it has produced Olympic and Commonwealth athletes, and the elite run, jump and throw alongside beginners. Currently the club is home to a group of world class Eritrean middle distance runners, a Somalian schoolboy who is the UK’s fastest 400m runner in his age group, Commonwealth qualifiers and athletes of all ages and abilities aspiring to achieve their Personal Best. Katri Walker ‘The City is the Film’ ‘The City is the Film’ takes its title from ‘A City’, a poem by Edwin Morgan, and uses it to build an intimate, collaged portrait of Glasgow and its inhabitants. As each voice transforms the words, each individual takes ownership of the place they now call home while questioning the ability of film itself to convey the truth of a place. Stina Wirfelt ‘Tame Time’ ‘Tame Time’ looks at the area of Dalmarnock, which will be transformed over the next four years to house several of the sporting events and the athletes’ village during the Commonwealth Games in 2014. The fictional story is told from the perspective of a woman who regularly walks her dog in the area, an activity that makes her think about the past, the present and the future. Walls of Light, various venues, Glasgow, from Thu 14 Oct. www.cca-glasgow.com
‘THE VIDEO INCLUDES PASSAGES OF FACT, ILLUSION
AND SPECULATION’