This Week in Scottish Art: Turner Prize, Naked Aye

We start this week with the preview of That’s Genetic, the first exhibition at new gallery 16 Nicholson Street. The show features works from Jennifer Bailey, Sarah Rose, Tessa Lynch and Lauren Hall. Between the quartet, a host of diverse interests and strategies are covered, working with issues like child-rearing, neoliberalism, a confusion of authenticities, working across performance, writing and sculpture. The show previews tonight (Tue 29 Sep), and runs until 8 Nov.

As part of The Shock of Victory, an exhibition and series of events at CCA that kicked off exactly one year after the Scottish Referendum, there are two free screenings over the next week. On Thursday, The Weeping Meadow (2004) will be screened at 2pm. Set in 1919, a family of Greek refugees flee anti-Jewish riots in Odessa. With the political backdrop, there’s a complicated family relationship and forced marriage.

On Saturday, Group Portrait with Explosives will be shown at 1pm. In this film, two otherwise unrelated cities – Brno in the Czech Republic and South Armagh in Northern Ireland – are brought together with reference to the circulation of international trade. What makes for their unexpected connection is a shared industrial manufacturing history, and by revealing the parallel of the respective collective economic experiences, it’s intended to reveal “the concealed violence of power and capital”. 

As the Turner Prize exhibition opens at Tramway this week, Saturday (3 Oct) sees the first Turner Prize Adult Workshop takes place from 1pm. This particular session is taking a lead from ASSEMBLE’s installation of artworks in gap sites. First looking at examples for inspiration, participants will then make hypothetical designs for a local empty site. The workshops continue weekly, with each using the work of a different Turner nominee as its starting point. Tickets are available online and priced at £5 (£3).

This Friday sees a few exhibition openings across Dundee and Glasgow. In Dundee, you'll find bright colours and psychedelia in a site-specific huge painted mural, prints and video by Hideyuki Katsumata at DCA, previewing 7-9pm. Also opening on Friday in Glasgow, Grace Ndiritu presents a video of a new performance work inspired by shamanistic practices, dealing with, among other things, the Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Building. A Return to Normalcy: Birth of a New Museum continues until December at the GSA's Reid Building.

Beginning this Saturday, Naked Aye Art Collective have put together two weeks of art and performance for the two gallery spaces in Edinburgh's St Margaret's House, with a concentration on artworks as responses to the human body. This week, there is the opening night event from 7-10pm at St Margaret’s, and after-party with DJ Joe Mali at the Safari Lounge from 10pm til late.

As part of her Talbot Rice exhibition, artist Fabienne Hess will give a talk on Friday at 6.30pm on the 'sub-collections' formed in her new project, entitled Hits and Misses (from the archive). For this, Hess uploads images from the University of Edinburgh’s digital archives, with the relationships between the images are based on their formal characteristics. In the gallery, thre is a huge digital print on silk containing every image in the archive, while two monitors display respectively the most viewed, and the never-accessed. Book your free tickets for Friday's talk here.

Also in Edinburgh, this Saturday night from 7-9pm, there’s a screening to mark the closing of the excellent Hanne Darboven exhibition. Darboven’s work is currently on exhibition at Talbot Rice – read our interview with the curator – but this closing event will take place in St Mary’s Cathedral. The Moon Has Risen, one of Darboven’s rare moving image works, will be shown, while the artist's fascination with the calendar will be explored with a recital of her composition Requiem, “often hinting at the opposite of its calendrical, self-evident rigour”. This event is free but booking is essential.