Event: Artist's Talk by Myriam Thyes
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above: Flag Metamorphoses in the central stations of Zurich, Basel,
Bern, Geneva.
Oct. 2006. (from the Flag
Metamorphoses website)
Wednesday 17th September - 7.30pm
Goethe Institute, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow, G3 6AX
(0141 332 2555).
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.
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Event: Nan Hoover Tribute Night
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Image of Nan Hoover from her talk at CCA Glasgow during Spectrum as part of TIMELOOP (April 2007)
Remembering Nan Hoover
Wednesday 24th September - 7pm
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD
(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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Street Level Photoworks was founded in 1989. From its inception it has provided artists and the public with the opportunity to produce and participate in photography and lens-based media. It aims to make artistic production accessible, both physically and intellectually, to a wide audience.
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