A weekend in Glasgow - some friends,
some drinking and some eating but also some seeing - A night of Scratch
performance as part of Take me
somewhere festival was a range of experiences - editing, try
it - is always advice in these circumstances but I am left with a woman covered
in hair, the strong smell of weed, breast feeding, a talking cloud, doppler
sound, glitter, visual sound bites, ironic hipness and the best face painting
ever. The Hunterian - http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/
all good. CCA
was all inclusive and active art participation stuff but my experience there mainly
focused around trying to buy a coffee and getting into the argument of how to
do it with the person serving - went away deluded around the roles of customer/server.
The documentary films by John
Samson at The
Gallery of Modern Art were excellent - wonderfully, charming
and yet painfully, gloriously dated - showing a time of grime and a tarnished
past - the subject matter - tattoos, steam engines, fetish wear and Eric
Bristow - whats not to like. seek them out. http://five-minutes.ru/video/4510755/eric-bristow-arrows-1979-john-samson
Transmission the space of song lyrics has a queer Caribbean show - great use of
balloons and text. The
Modern Institute is a beautiful space, if felt
modelled on New York loft spaces but that could be to do with its location and
the busy disengagement atmosphere of the people working there. https://www.themoderninstitute.com/ Tramway http://www.tramway.org/Pages/home.aspx had a hauntingly melancholic film by Oliver Laric -
http://oliverlaric.com/
it just makes me want to
weep. Initially the work of Claire Barclay is stunning but
the more time spent the more one starts to unpick some choices and eventually
one is left looking at the space and surfaces of the materials used. St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art overlooked
by the creepy necropolis is a great find - so many inspiring pieces crammed
together to form a kind of knick nack soup of religiousness. Glasgow - worth a
visit.
