This Week in Scottish Art: 27 Sep - 3 Oct

Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) is back with film screenings, workshops and talks all week at venues across Glasgow, plus previews at SWG3, the Briggait and Glasgow Sculpture Studios, and Martin Creed talks at Fruitmarket Gallery.

Article by Holly Gavin | 27 Sep 2016

Tue 27 Sep: CCA, SWG3 and Good Press

Catch Jean Luc Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle) at the CCA’s cinema at 6.30pm as part of their Cities series of screenings, talks, and discussion groups. Godard’s film follows the life of Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), a housewife from the Parisian banlieue (suburbs) who seeks to make ends meet through sex work. The film has some stunning shots of suburban Paris high-rises and aims to capture modern life in the socio-economic conditions of the banlieue. The screening is for a 15+ audience; free, but ticketed so book here.

Soft Shoulder, a solo show by Winnie Herbstein, opens at Very Friendly at SWG3 on Eastvale Place from 7 to 9.30pm. The show looks at car culture and divulges into understanding the boy racer’s pursuit exploring the historic gendering of industries. Also on Tuesday, Fritz Welch presents a book by Austrian artist, writer, and eccentric bar-owner Viktor Rogy (1924-2004) at An Evening of Reading and Performances for Marbles in my Mouth at Good Press from 7-9pm. There will be performances by Jamie Bolland, Malcy Duff, Katie Oswell and Edwin Stevens on the night.

Thu 29 Sep: SQIFF returns, Martin Creed at Fruitmarket

The Scottish Queer International Film Festival is back this Thursday. There are film screenings, parties, workshops and discussion, etc. on till Sunday – view the whole brochure online, screenings are also taking place in Edinburgh and Dundee. Festival passes can also be bought for £40 (£30 concession) including entry to all events and both parties Friday and Saturday night. Tickets on the SQIFF website here .

In Edinburgh, the Fruitmarket is hosting an evening with Martin Creed from 6pm. This event if free, but ticketed; tickets may be booked via Eventbrite here. Also at Fruitmarket, there is a descriptive tour of Damián Ortega’s show led by artist Juliana Capes from 11am open to everyone and suitable for visually impaired visitors. It is free, but must register here via Eventbrite.  

Also on the agenda is Slide Night #4, a slide projector performance evening with performances by Siân Robinson-Davies, Jessica Yu, Timothea Armour and Thomas Whittle at Rhubaba in Edinburgh at 7.30 pm.

Fri 30 Sep: New shows at Briggait, GSS

John Taylor follows last month's Glasgow and Sometimes Further Afield exhibition with new show 55 Years. It opens at the Briggait on Friday; the exhibition continues from 3-28 Oct, Mon-Fri, 10 am to 5 pm.

'Instead of Sculpture' by Polish artist Zofia Kulik previews from 7pm at Glasgow Sculpture Studios in The Whisky Bond. 'Instead of Sculpture' is Kulik’s first solo exhibition in the UK, and GSS’s first historical work on show. This is the first time ‘Instead of Sculpture’ (1968-71) has been shown in full since her degree show presentation in 1971; Kulik offers a radical reinvention of the sculptural medium by looking at the intersection between film, sculpture and documentation. The show runs from 1 Oct to 3 Dec.

Sat 1 Oct: Good Press, ESW 

Head back to Good Press on Saturday for a publication launch and reading from Neil Bickerton's new poetry pamphlet Other Waste Material from 4-6pm.

In Edinburgh, Form, Forces and Fire at Fruitmarket Gallery marks the end of artist Hannah Ayre’s five-week project for which participants have made ceramic sculptures inspired from local landscapes and the Fruitmarket’s Damiàn Ortega show. There is an outdoor kiln firing at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop; you can book here.

Sun 2 Oct: SQIFF, shows closing in Edinburgh & Glasgow

Real Boy, a film about a young trans man navigating friendship and family relations, is this year's SQIFF closing film; it screens at 8.15pm at the CCA, tickets £5/£4 concession here, free to asylum seekers and the unemployed. The SQIFFies award ceremony will precede the screening. And before that, free workshop Green New World with artist and award-winning filmmaker Lucy Holmes-Elliott takes place in the CCA’s Club Room from 4.30-6pm where participants will aim to formulate solutions for making films in a world with limited resources. Register here.  

Sunday's your last chance to catch Calum McClure’s Monotypes at Glasgow Print Studios, and Adventures in Space at the Lighthouse also closes on Sunday. The exhibition, curated by Berlin-based Scottish designer Jon Jardine and the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland is part of this year’s Festival of Architecture; it explores the influences architecture and the architecture of science-fiction have on each other.

In Edinburgh, two blockbuster shows close today: Inspiring Impressionism at the National Gallery on the Mound, and the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 at the National Portrait Gallery.  

Mon 3 Oct: Six Foot Gallery

Why not head to Ex-Colonies at Six Foot Gallery – the photography exhibition presents Sam Wood’s Okay Coca Cola, "an attempt to avoid capturing Zimbabwe as a photojournalist", and Jack Low’s Today’s Trends takes a look at Canada’s purpose-built Niagara Falls visitor town in Canada. Open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 10am to 5pm.

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