This Week in Scottish Art: GFF & more

Thursday 18 Feb

Say-so – Glasgow Film Theatre

As part of the visual art events for Glasgow Film Festival, MAP magazine present Say-so, an event broadly based on the concept of exploring voices within archives. The programme has been selected by artist-filmmaker Lyndsay Mann, and commissioned by MAP guest editors.

With moving images from artists including poetic and political multidisciplinary artist Mona Hatoum – whose work is put in figurative conversation with artists like Saskia Olde Wolbers, who combines carefully crafted fictional scripts with otherworldly environments – the event begins this Thursday at 6.30pm at GFT. Tickets are available online at the usual GFT rates (£9.50/£7.50).

Friday 19 Feb

Paraphernalia – The Poetry Club

This Friday at 9pm, top notch art night Paraphernalia returns for its 14th edition. For its first outing of 2016, they've put together a fresh programme of art and music: playing live is artist/musician Adam Boyd, providing dreamy vocals and guitars alongside the louder, distorted and more sombre-sounding Chump. Eight artists will also be on hand for a variety of spoken word and performance-based displays on the night, before the boogie begins with DJs Tim Dalzell and Conal Blake.

Bonefold – WASPS Studios

In Dundee, in Meadow Mill studios' WASPS host a new exhibition of screenprints, soft sculpture and moving image from artists Amy Jones and Fiona McCubbin, including both collaborative and individual pieces, who began working together based on a common interest in 1940s erotic literature, the perception of sensuality and the gaze. The show opens on Friday 7-9pm, then continues through the two following weekends (20, 21, 27 & 28 Feb).

Katie Schwab – Collective Gallery

Collective Gallery begin Satellites 2016 – their development programme for emergent artists, writers, curators and producers – with an exhibition by Katie Schwab, who presents a new body of work, having been selected during her MFA degree show in June. The temporary exhibition space will house new works from her multidisciplinary practice, including new film work, embroidery, handmade stools, and decorated floors and walls.

Titled Together in a Room, all the work has been made simultaneously and in response to research into 20th and 21st century domestic design and craft education, storefront displays and 1960s Lundby doll's house designs. The show previews from 6-8pm this Friday

Amy Boulton – Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Also this Friday, from 6-8pm, Amy Boulton (recent graduate and recipient of the ESW/Edinburgh College of Art graduate bursary award) presents new work developed during her residency at ESW.

The exhibition includes Boulton's video The Waterfront, in which ‘semi-transparent figures inhabit an incomplete urban landscape whose development has been abandoned due to economic decline.’ Also as part of the exhibition, Boulton presents an installation entitled Back Store, providing a glimpse behind the scenes of hospitality.

Saturday 20 Feb

Jamie Crewe – Transmission

Glasgow-based artist Jamie Crewe presents new video, sculpture and text work in Transmission from 7pm. Titled But What Was Most Awful Was a Girl Who Was Singing, Crewe’s new work begins with a close reading of 20th century French author Jean Genet’s play The Balcony, where a play-acting judge and police commissioner become actual authorities following a revolution. The exhibition continues through until 26 March.

Sunday 21 Feb

Duncan Marquiss: screening and discussion – CCA

Also as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, CCA hosts a screening event curated by Margaret Tait Award-winner Duncan Marquiss: the full programme, entitled Copy Errors, includes artist film and interviews with natural scientists and musicologists. Free tickets are available from the GFF box office on the day, max two per person.

Later that day, also in CCA, you can catch Producing Arts' discussion event Moving Image in Scotland, where LUX Artists’ Moving Image Agency will be moderating a panel on the climate for producing experimental artist film in Scotland. With the panel consisting of active and influential artists, producers and gallerists, the chat begins this Sunday at 6.30pm. Again, free tickets are available from the GFF box office on the day, max two per person.

Monday 22 Feb

Margaret Tait Award – GFT

Rounding off this week's highlights, be sure to catch the actual screening of Duncan Marquiss’ Evolutionary Jerks & Gradualist Creeps, the film that picked up the Margaret Tait Award.

The film itself is based around interviews with two evolutionary biologists, in which analogies are drawn between the cultural and biological realms. This footage is combined with Marquiss’ own, where he follows one of the biologists' theories as a cue for image-making processes. Free tickets are available from the GFF box office on the day, max two per person.