THE VAULT
ELLIE HARRISON Short-listed for this year’s Converse/Dazed Emerging Artist Award, Ellie Harrison has been garnering much attention over recent years for her works of obsessive documentation and, latterly, for her political and activist- based art. Often relying on the internet or public interaction, her works parody bureaucratic processes. As demonstrated by recent project A Brief History of Privatisation (Inspace, Edinburgh, until 4 September, pictured, left), they mostly work towards highlighting the slow and severe annexation of every aspect of our lives to capital. For Vault, Harrison will gamble her entire artist’s fee (£500) with fair goers, by setting-up and running a hoopla stall, inviting punters to take one free throw each in an attempt to claim some of the artist’s earnings.
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RISA TSUNEGI A Glasgow School of Art 2009 MFA graduate, Japanese artist Risa Tsunegi is a fresh talent and makes large-scale sculptural works and paintings. Often forcing an uneasy navigation of the spaces that they inhabit, they have in the past materialised as obtruding bars or jutting girders. Although adhering to an anti- aesthetic, Tsunegi’s forms are strangely purposeless, and her architectural constructions play out tensions between ideas of use and uselessness, objects and art objects. For Vault, Tsunegi will present a new work that reflects the current condition of the Briggait building, drawing on its interesting structure and adapted usage.