Welcome to the fifth of our regular newsletters which aim to keep you informed of all activity and developments at Street Level.
This issues banner image is a still from 'The Commander In Chief' which will be showing as part of 'Scratch Video'.
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Scratch Video
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Monday 16th - Saturday 21st March 2009 - 12 til 5pm - Free
Scratch Video was a British Video Art movement that emerged in the 1980s. It was characterised by
the use of found footage and challenged many of the established
conventions of broadcast television. Street Level have teamed up with
Rewind to bring to Glasgow a selection of some of the groundbreaking
works in this genre, including artists such as The Gorilla Tapes, The
Duvet Brothers and George Barber. For more information click here.
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Sean Cubitt : Media Theorist
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Live web talk on Friday 20th March at 6pm, Street Level Photoworks. Free.
Cubitt is the author of several books on video culture, including 'Eco
Media', 'The Cinema Effect', and 'Videography: Video Media as Art and
Culture'.
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| George Barber : Beyond Language
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Beyond Language : Selected Video Works 1983 - 2008
Thursday 2nd April, 7pm at Street Level Photoworks
To coincide with a new DVD publication on George Barber, published by London's leading moving image agency, LUX, Street Level presents a selection of Barbers work with an introduction by the artist. A pioneer of British video art, once described in Art Monthly as 'the Henry Ford of independent video' George Barber gained an international reputation with Scratch Video. Moving away from Scratch in the early 90's, Barber created many low-tech video pieces and was influential in defining the then emergent 'slacker' aesthetic.
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| Iorram Records
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Saturday 28th March, 7pm at Street Level Photoworks
Iorram Records presents an evening of experimental and improvised music from Jez Riley French, Raymond MacDonald, Peter Nicholson, Aileen Campbell, Ali Robertson and Neil Davidson. Iorram CDs will be available for sale + refreshments.
For more info on Iorram please visit their Blog.
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Recent Events
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Praktika book launch
65 people attended the book
launch and screening of a 1970 documentary on the work of David
Harding, Scotlands first town artist in Glenrothes. For some images from the event and further info on the book, click here.
Alexandra Demenkova Talk, Social Photography as Art
70 people
attended a very informative presentation by Russian photographer
Alexandra Demenkova. Street Level also organised a talk at Reid Kerr
College in Paisley to students undertaking the documentary photography
module. This is one of a number of future collaborations with the
college. To view some of her work click here.
The Drouth Launch + Burns Supper
52 people attended a launch for the new Drouth magazine, Scotland's best-kept self-publishing secret, which also marked Burns night with a special cabaret performance by KYBO Theatre Company. For some images from the evening click here.
For more information and news please see our website.
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