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Welcome to the third of our regular newsletters which aim to keep you informed of all activity and developments at Street Level.
This issues banner image is of the construction of the Trongate 103 development.
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Jerwood Photography Awards
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Street Level Photoworks presents Jerwood Photography Awards in conjunction with the magazine of contemporary photographic art - Portfolio - who manage this prestigious platform for contemporary image-makers. Over 4,000 photographs were submitted by 540 entrants, all recent graduates from UK visual art courses, and resident in the UK. The work of the five winners deals with a range of current issues through social, personal and psychological engagement.
In E-wasteland, 2006 Sophie Gerrard addresses the growing problems of electronic waste in India. Dana Popa' s Not Natasha, 2006, traces the tragically fractured and damaged lives of young girls and women caught up in human trafficking. Moira Lovell's The After School Club, 2006-07, series shows young women taken from school-themed nightclubs and returned, still wearing their revellers' outfits, to their school gates. In Protoplasm, 2005-06, Kevin Newark finds transcendent possibilities in the most common of things, having photographed plastic bags cast adrift in the canals of East London. Edmund Kevill-Davies' humorous series Puppet Love, 2006-07, explores the special relationship a ventriloquist shares with his puppet.
Exhibition runs from 6th September - 18th October 2008.
Opening times: Wed - Sat, 12pm - 5pm
Artists' talks: Dana Popa & Sophie Gerrard, Friday 26th Sept - 3pm
Admission Free.
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Event: Artist's Talk by Myriam Thyes
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Myriam, who exhibited her video installation 'Multiple Madonna' at Street Level last spring (as part of TIMELOOP), is currently undertaking the WASPS exchange with Düsseldorf. Thyes studied painting and video-art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany (one of her teachers was Nan Hoover, see below). Since 1999, her work has focused on videoart, animation and digital imagery and between 2000-2004, she has realised media art projects on public screens as a member of the artists group [Strictly Public]. In 2005, the evolving flash animation series FLAG METAMORPHOSES received funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. FLAG METAMORPHOSES is a collaborative art project - a continuously growing animation series with many authors: the flags of every nation in the world transform into each other through flash animation.
This event is presented in association with Goethe Institute and WASPS and takes place at 7.30pm at Goethe Institute, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow, G3 6AX (0141 332 2555).
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Event: Nan Hoover Tribute Night
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Remembering Nan Hoover. 7pm at CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street (Tel: 0141 352 4900).
Nan Hoover began her career as a painter and enjoyed some success in her native New York in the 1950s, but it was in video - which she started using in 1973 - and particularly in video / performance hybrids, that she made her most important work. She had solo shows at MoMA in 1977 and 1980, but she was most celebrated in Europe, where she was based for the last four decades of her life, moving to Amsterdam in 1969 and then Berlin in 2005. She exhibited at Documenta (twice), the Venice Biennale, and museum and galleries the length and breadth of Europe. Her recent two-person show "Some Times", with Bill Viola was held at Salzburg's Museum der Moderne (see Robert Ayers tribute on the ArtInfo website). In 2007 she exhibited in Spectrum at CCA (as part of TIMELOOP), and in early 2008 returned to Glasgow for an exhibition of her photographic work and a performance at the Tramway as part of the National Review of Live Art. She also undertook a lecture as part of Glasgow School of Art's SoFA series. The event will include a screening of the artists work, with contributions and accolades from Glasgow based artists and writers. The event is presented in association with CCA, Goethe Institute, and GSA. Visit Nan's website.
To view a talk by and an interview with Nan Hoover please see the Dotcrawl website.
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| Other News
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Four works from Catriona Grant's exhibition 'The Examination Room' (which Street Level presented in collaboration with Belfast Exposed in 2005) will be included in an exhibition of work of Scottish Art that will tour the United States, beginning in October 2008. Organised by Calum Colvin, the first venue will be at the Donna Beam Gallery on the UNLV campus, then to the Hite Museum, University of Louisville opening in early January until mid-February 2009. Later it will appear at the University of Maryland. The exhibition will feature paintings, prints, collage and photographs by fifteen of the leading Scottish artists of recent years including, Steven Campbell, Ken Currie, Calum Colvin, David Mach, Catriona Grant, David Williams, Susan Ramsenthaller, John Byrne and John Bellany. There will be a catalogue produced, with an essay by Dr Tom Normand, University of St Andrews. Both Tom Normand and Calum Colvin participated in Street Level's Talking Art Photography event at Glasgow Art Fair at the end of March. See our archive for images and info on The Examination Room.
Heather Tait - 48 Activists with Quote by Wim Wenders.
Tait's
work will feature in the
next issue of Product Magazine. This work was produced as a limited
edition posterwork which coincided with Document 5 last October. Copies
are still available! See our archive for a preview of the posterwork.
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