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Welcome to the fourth of our regular newsletters which aim to keep you informed of all activity and developments at Street Level.
This issues banner image is from Katrina Johnk who will be exhibiting as part of Futureproof..
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New Exhibition: Futureproof
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Victoria Baker: Mike Hunter: Katrina Johnk: Martin Scott Powell
'Futureproof' is an exhibition profiling the enigmatic work of 4 emerging image-makers whose work gravitates between, and plays upon, the genres of documentary and staged photography. Graduating in 2008 from 3 of Scotland's photography courses, Victoria Baker, Mike Hunter, Katrina Johnk and Martin Scott Powell (image pictured above) variously construct situations and narratives through the use of the figure in real and artificial environments, or in one case through its contrasting absence.
Further information and images are available by clicking here.
Exhibition runs from 1st November - 20th December 2008.
Opening times: Wed - Sat, 12noon - 5pm
Artists' talks with Victoria Baker, Mike Hunter and Martin Scott Powell - Saturday 6th December - 3pm - Admission Free.
Futureproof is the last exhibition in the South Block space until we re-open in Trongate 103 in Spring of 2009. It is currently anticipated the building will open in September 2009.
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The Jerwood Photography Awards
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The recent Jerwood Photography Awards proved to be popular with visitors and critically significant with future image-makers, with several groups of students from photography courses across Glasgow visiting the gallery. A group of school pupils from Hutchieson's Grammar also
visited the exhibition as part of Street Levels education and outreach
programme in what was a lively and engaged event, facilitated by Rachel
Thibbotomunuwe. This piloted an approach to interpretation actitivies
that we will be pursuing and developing with the new programme in
Trongate 103.
Street Level is happy to accommodate such visits by colleges, students, schools or any other group. If you would like an introduction to our new exhibition (Futureproof, see above) or a gallery tour then please notify us in advance on 0141 552 2151 and we will endeavor to assist.
Sophie Gerrard and Dana Pope also undertook an informative discussion on their work.
To see images of the talk click here.
Other Jerwood News
As part of its education work Street Level consulted with the Trafficking Awareness Raising Alliance (TARA) in Glasgow, to give Dana Popa's work 'Not Natasha' a local context. Although Popa's work highlighted trafficked women in Eastern Europe, TARA's input demonstrated the problem also exists in Scotland right now. Thanks to all the team at TARA for their advice.
Also Green MSP Patrick Harvey gave Street Level a quote to use in the education material around Sophie Gerrards 'E-wasteland'. He said:
"Waste is a big problem for Scotland and the world, and getting worse. Around 85% of the waste we produce is just put in landfill, which is a polite way of describing a hole in the ground. This is where much of our electrical waste like old computers and game consoles end up. Landfill produces harmful gases, which cause climate change, and nasty chemicals that can leak into the soil and the marine environment, harming plants, animals and even human health. Our electrical waste is also shipped abroad to some of the poorest countries in the world, where people have to live beside and scrape a living from our waste, as the E-wasteland exhibition shows". Thanks to Patrick for his support.
Also used in the education pack was a document from the education resources section of United States Environmental Protection Agency website. Check out the download for the life cycle of a mobile phone.
For further info and to read reviews of the exhibition click here.
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| Exhibition News
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Stephen Healy has been awarded a photographic commission by the Univeristy of Strathclyde for their Fine Art Collection. The commission is the result of the curator seeing Stephen's show, 'Ethereal' at Street Level in February '08. The work will be displayed in the Court Senate Suite, end of November onwards - viewing by appointment via Collins Gallery on 0141 548 2634. Meanwhile, the exhibition will be shown at Bellshill Cultural Centre from November 7th to December 5th this year. The Centre is situated
in John Street, 1 minute from Bellshill train station. Stephen will give a
talk on 15th November at 2pm.
EJ Major, who exhibited at Street Level in April and May of 2008, has been nominated for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009, which is coordinated by The Photographers Gallery in London. Her work 'Try to do Things We All Can Understand' at Format in Derby, the successor to the Derby Photography Festival in March/April 09. The theme of the festival is photography and film. The 'Marie Clare RIP' series will be shown at the Helsinki Triennial in June 09.
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| November Events
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Photopoems : Poetry reading and slide-show with James Sutherland-Smith & Shamil Khairov.
Saturday, 15th November, 7pm at Street Level - Admission Free.
Photopoems is a joint project between the poet Sutherland-Smith and photographer Khairov. James has published five individual collections of poetry the latest of which, "Popeye in Belgrade" is published in November 2008 by Carcanet. Shamil is a member of The Russian Union of Photographic Artists. He has created a course on Russian 20th-Century Visual Culture, which was first given in Ireland and Finland and is currently being taught at Glasgow. The event is a part of the Cultural Crossings conference held by the University of Glasgow.
Reading The Waves : with Des Dillon
Thursday 27th November, 7.30 till 9pm. £4 + £2 concession.
Internationally acclaimed award-winning writer Des Dillon
will read some of his work alongside readings by students from the
Professional Writing course at GCNS, Glasgow. Born in Coatbridge, Des
is a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, broadcaster, screen
writer, scriptwriter for TV, stage and radio. He was
Writer-in-Residence at Castlemilk 1998-2000. Anthologised
internationally, he has been published in the USA, India, Russia,
Sweden, in Catalan, French and Spanish. His novel Me and Ma Gal was included on the list of The 100 Greatest Ever Scottish Books.
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Recent Events
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Remembering Nan Hoover
A tribute to Nan Hoover was held at CCA with contributions from Klaus Jung (artist, Head of Fine Art, GSA), Myriam Thyes (artist, Düsseldorf), Ewan Morrison (writer, Glasgow) and Sue Brind (lecturer, Glasgow School of Art). A number of Nan's works were also screened at the event, including 'Desert', 'Projections', 'Halfsleep' and 'Returning to Fuji'. Thanks to Marlies at Goethe Institut for getting these works over and to imai in Dusseldorf for providing them. Just a reminder that you can view Nan in action in one of her inspiring talks which she did at the CCA in May of 2007 as part of 'Timeloop', in addition there is an interview with her also on the Dotcrawl website. Go to the site here, then into- archive, login with your e-mail and any password and then into Timeloop.
For images from the evening click here.
Myriam Thyes: Artists Talk
An artist talk by Myriam Thyes was presented in association with Goethe Institut and WASPS. The audience got the opportunity to hear Myriam discuss her ongoing project 'Flag Metamorphoses' through which she collaborates with artists in different countries in the reconstruction of their national flags using flash animation.
Jo Spence at GoMA
Street Level Director Malcolm Dickson gave a talk on the life and work of Jo Spence (1934-1992) at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, that coincided with her exhibition 'Self Portraits' which ends on November 16th.
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| Job Opportunity At Street Level
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We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Office and Finance Coordinator to join the team. Click here to find out more.
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| Other Photography News
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Scottish Photographers is a group of professional, amateur, and student photographers which encourages and supports individuals in the practice of independent photography as a creative medium and for personal expression, acting to bring together and create communicative links between photographers...' SPEM is the e-mail newsletter of Scottish Photographers and in addition to their published magazine called 'Notes' they provide some useful information on the range of photography exhibitions across Scotland (that they are supplied with information on). Since they do this very well we wont replicate that here, but we would urge you to sign up for their newsletter which is normally monthly. E-mail your address to info@scottish-photographers.com, you could also visit the contact section of their website.
Until 30th November, Sandy Sharp's 'Cameo Roles' is on at Beyond Words in Edinburgh.
Until 29th November, John Gilmour is showing 'Lost Corners of Glasgow' at The Hidden Lane Cafe & Gallery in Glasgow.
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| Notice
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Aye Aye Books is currently making very good use of CCA's foyer space on Sauchiehall Street. They sell magazines, art books, critical theory, artists publication and monographs. So before you print your next book, buy some of the existing stock and support independent traders! Go visit their website.
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