This Week in Scottish Art: 14-20 Mar

This week brings life drawing, pre-degree shows from Edinburgh College of Art, a free screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain and a presentation by recent Tate exhibitor William E Jones in the Modern Institute.

Tue 14 Mar: CCA Intermedia

Visit A Apopheny! by Alexander Storey Gordon at CCA Intermedia. For the exhibition, Gordon archived his grandfather’s works of art and apposite recollections in 2015. Gordon’s grandfather was an illiterate filmmaker who was unable to write screenplays or scripts and hired illiterate actors to deter literate actors from stealing his work. Admission is free and unticketed; Tue to Fri, 1-6pm, until 21 Mar.    

Wed 15 Mar: Royal Scottish Academy and Summerhall

RSA New Contemporaries closes today at the RSA on the Mound in Edinburgh. In its ninth year, the show features work by sixty-six graduates from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Highlands & Islands in Elgin & Orkney, Glasgow School of Art, Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, and Architecture Schools and Programmes in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen. 10am-5pm, entry £5 (£3 concessions), includes the exhibition catalogue.    

RECONFIGURE’S Life Drawing – Contrast is at Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre this evening from 7 to 9pm. The life drawing event will focus on contrast in body form, pose and movement. £6 on the door, or book in advance here via Eventbrite (subject to a booking fee).       

Thu 16 Mar: DOK Artist Space

Chrysalis’ Grand Opening happens tonight at DOK Artist Space in Edinburgh’s Ocean Drive from 6pm. The exhibition features the work of eighteen final year students from Edinburgh College of Art. Chrysalis will remain on display over the weekend.

Fri 17 Mar: Cooper Gallery, The Modern Institute, Film City Glasgow

Two Night Stands launches at Cooper Gallery in Dundee this afternoon today from 5.30 to 7.30pm. The exhibition, co-curated by Lynda Morris, features work by Ross Sinclair, Natalie Wardie, OAPAD, Dundee Print Collective, Bruce McLean and Jane Montserrat concerned with the ownership and occupation of space and resulting political and cultural frictions. Two Night Stands is on until April 8, open Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5PM and 10.30am to 4.30pm on Saturdays.

William E. Jones previews at The Modern Institute's Osbourne Street gallery from 7 to 9pm. William E. Jones is a filmmaker born in Ohio in 1962 whose videos and films, edited collections of 1970s and 1980s gay porn, represent and reflect on the effect of the onset of AIDS on gay culture, observe innate desire for sexual imagery, and consider homosexual identity’s complexities. William E. Jones’ work was previously shown at the Modern Institute in 2011 and the artist had a Tate Modern retrospective in 2005. This exhibition will run to 20 May; visit Monday to Friday from 10am to 6pm and noon till 5pm on Saturdays.

Head to Film City Glasgow at 401 Govan Road to catch a free screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (1973) presented by Subtitles Filmclub from 7 to 10pm. Jodorowsky’s film follows the journey of seven materialistic figures and a Christ-like character up the Holy Mountain led by an alchemist hoping to achieve enlightenment. The screening, one hour and fifty-four minutes, is preceded by an introduction from the organisers and begins at 7.20pm and is followed by a discussion.

Sat 18 Mar: Edinburgh Palette

Today is your last chance to see The Painters Pre Degree Show at Edinburgh Palette in St Margaret’s House including the work of Gray’s School of Art’s Honours Painting students. Visit between 10am and 5pm; 151 London Road. 

Sun 19 Mar: TRAMWAY

This is your last chance to see Marks in Time, Time for Art’s 10 anniversary exhibition at Tramway in the Upper Gallery, open from noon to 6pm. Time for Art is a space aiding individual and collective art projects for people aged 55+. Oliver Laric’s solo-exhibition also closes today, and site-specific installation Yield Point by Claire Barclay is also open during the same hours.  

Mon 20 Mar: The Lemon Tree and Trongate 103

Head to The Lemon Tree in Aberdeen from 6-8pm for Peacock Visual Arts’ Director Nuno Sacramento and Sociologist Dr Leslie Mabon from Robert Gordon University in the Green Tease network’s talk Cultural Practices in a Post-Fossil Fuel Aberdeen. The talk considers questions about Aberdeen’s future economy after the depletion of fossil fuels. Peacock Visual Arts will consider its role, that of other art institutions and of art in creating platforms for discussion between communities and different professionals including artists, academics and geologists.

Visit Temporary Hoarding and RAR Graphics in Trongate 103’s Foyer for a display of enlarged covers from Temporary Hoarding magazine issues in accompaniment to Street Level Photoworks’ Rock Against Racism by Syd Shelton. Temporary Hoarding is open until 26 March and Rock Against Racism until 9 April from 10am to 5pm between Tuesdays and Fridays, and from noon till 5pm on Saturdays.