This Week in Scottish Art: Poetry, Parties & Sci Fi

We begin in Glasgow, where for the rest of the week in the Project Room there’s the chance to see the work of Malcolm and Leel. Malcolm and Leel are young emerging artists based in Glasgow, “attracted to the intimacy of hidden and inaccessible areas”. See their work in the Project Room in Trongate 103 until Saturday; the duo are also exhibiting at the moment in the Lust and the Apple near Edinburgh – given a mention, with directions, in last week’s column.

In Edinburgh this Friday there’s a curator’s tour for Kwang Young Chun’s EAF show Aggregations at Dovecot. For the show, Chun has combined elements of American Abstract Expressionism and Eastern philosophical-inspired traditions of making. Materially speaking, this involves hundreds of triangular styrofoam pieces wrapped in Korean mulberry paper, mounted and wall-based and in all different sizes – looking like layers of shards. The free talk, at 11am on Friday, will see the curator of the exhibition discuss Chun’s inspirations.

In Inverleith House this Friday there’s Rtizfrolic, an evening of poetry and discussion inspired by the work of John Chamberlain. For their Edinburgh Art Festival presentation, Inverleith chose influential American sculptor Chamberlain (1927-2011), whose works are known for their vibrant colour, twisted forms and use of salvaged materials and car parts as medium. Rtizfrolic begins at 6:30pm; tickets £5.95(4.89), booking essential.

Also part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Lauren Gault will give a talk and tour of her Jupiter Artland show Lipstick-NASA this Saturday afternoon at 2pm. The show has developed from diverse materials’ research, including subjects like trepanning (burring a hole into the skull, for medicinal purposes), and cetacean stranding (where whales beach themselves, without reason). Admission £8.50, £4.50 students and under-16s. Cetacean stranding also features in some of the works Gault is now exhibiting in the CCA in Glasgow in her show Fugue States, with formerly Glasgow-based American artist Alison Gibbs.

Staying in Edinburgh, but outside of the Art Festival, there’s Embassy’s screening of “Everyone thinks I should be afraid of you but I’m not!” On Friday from 7pm, Embassy will screen the first three episodes of a lo-fi mystery soap opera, Welcome to Harpurhey, created by Katie Bootland and Stephen Marshall. The episodes will then continue to be screened in the space, Thursdays to Sundays, until 30 August.

Moving to Glasgow, there’s new art and a party at SWG3 in Eastvale Place this Friday. At 6pm, it’s a response to late New Glasgow Boy Steve Campbell’s On Form and Friction, titled On Fun and Friction and combining Campbell’s work with that of a host of emerging artists including former Skinny showcase duo Caitlin Hynes and Fiona Beveridge. This first preview starts at 6pm, then it’s off to the Voidoid Archive where there is the preview and afterparty for three-person group show Yosemite from 7pm, with three recent graduates from the GSA MFA programme.

This Sunday, the GODS will be meeting in the Hunterian Art Museum. Glasgow Open Dance Studio will facilitate a dialogical kind of dance workshop, with ideas being explored through “movement scores: an instructional document, list, drawing, idea, approach or thought which invites activation”. Participants are encouraged to bring along their own score to act out and share. GODS run open and relaxed (but active!) workshops; it’s free, and they stress that “Everyone is a dancer!” Book here and meet at the foyer of the Hunterian (attached to the Glasgow University Library) at 1pm on Sunday 16 August.

In Dundee's Hannah Maclure Centre, it’s the second last week of Edition Two. The exhibition is by Dundee Print Collective, which was initiated by a group of Dundee-based artists but now includes over 100 members, ranging from professionals to members with no formal art training. Thirty of these members created new limited edition prints for the collective’s projects, on show at Hannah Maclure until Friday 21 August.