IN THE FRAME
Rhona Taylor rounds up the emerging artists to watch out for at GI
Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art’s MFA programme last year, Hardeep Pandhal (right) has enjoyed an increasingly high proi le. He was selected for last year’s New Contemporaries (Bloomberg’s showcase of graduating artists) and was awarded this year’s Glasgow Open Bursary. His GI exhibition, JoJoBoys, consists of a i lm and series of lamp post banners exploring colonialist readings of the Camp Coffee logos, to be installed along Charlotte Street, the site of the company’s original factory. Also a graduate of last year’s MFA programme is Canadian artist Jay Mosher, who collaborates with current
GSA student Lauren Hall (left) on Comfortably Warm, a site-specii c response to the city’s tenement housing. Over at SWG3, the group show La Chose Encadrée includes works by several artists including Gabriele Beveridge, who has exhibited internationally since graduating from the Slade. The show, curated by Camille Le Houezec and Joey Villemont, explores the idea of the frame. Several GI exhibitions at CCA this year showcase work from the moving image artists who were shortlisted for the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards, which is open to artists in the i rst i ve years of their practice. Lucy Clout, Kate Cooper, Anne Haaning (below) and Marianna Simnett (top) have all explored themes of identity, visibility and posterity in this show, i rst exhibited at the Jerwood in London.
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So, the coach is going to be in this big, dark room with a smoky atmosphere around, and you happen upon it through a breached fence. The idea of a bus with its headlamps on in a clearing on a dark road is in itself creepy, especially if it’s empty.
SM: And as part of the show you’ll be making a performance in Tramway as well? BW: Yes. My mother has made a suit that I’m wearing as the narrator of this i lm. And you come across me on the l oor of a makeshift emergency centre in a sports hall, like they had after Hurricane Katrina or even the l oods in the UK. In this scenario I’ve got really long legs and the legs of the jogging bottoms are like 10ft long. I’m going to lie on my belly as if I’m a child watching TV. What I want is two volunteers in dark clothes that operate my feet as puppets; my feet should be at an angle so they loll around in that way you do when you’re lying on your belly. In the background will be a tight jazz combo playing really hokey grooves.
SM: How do you see this i lm as a continuation of the work from Venice? Is it a complete departure for you? BW: I’m working with Casey and Euan, the two guys I worked with for the Venice i lm. They make music videos and often use a mix of low tech bits and bobs and animation and so on. I think the link with the Venice i lm is this idea of things being exploded or smashed up. So, the Big Bang, on an atomic level, is quite similar to what would happen if society broke down. If the government and royal family were removed, I imagine things would explode.
Bedwyr Williams: Echt, Tramway, Glasgow, Fri 4 Apr–Mon 25 May.