This Week in Scottish Art: 6-12 September
There's plenty to be seen and done this week in Scottish contemporary art, with new openings from The Modern Institute, events and previews in Cooper Gallery, Generator Projects and DCA, and a temporary radio station from CCA.
Tue 6 Sep: All The Young Nudes
Start the week with some creativity tonight in The Rum Shack in the southside of Glasgow. They're hosting All the Young Nudes life drawing class from 8pm, £5 on the door – or £6.47 when booking on Eventbrite – with ATYN classes also taking place in Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
Wed 7 Sep: Laurieston Arches, Cooper Gallery, CCA
Parallel Dimensions opens in Laurieston Arches, showcasing very recent graduates and what they've been up to since finishing their studies. There'll be some familiar pieces from the recent exhibition in the Tontine in June, and a lot of new works; the opening's from 6-8pm, and jump ahead to Monday for details of the closing party.
Staying topical in Dundee, there's Tales from Europe in Cooper Gallery from 6.30-8pm. With Pedro Almodóvar's new film Julieta now in cinemas, summer resident Cullinan Richards presents scenes from some of the Spanish director's films alongside Russ Mayer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! She plans discussions about the feminine characters in these films, and will be serving Campari sodas.
In CCA, there is Radiophrenia, the temporary FM radio station broadcasting 24 hours a day on 87.9FM until this Sunday. On Wednesday from 7-10pm, there is an event featuring artists Rebecca Wilcox and Catherine Street, as well as an experimental music group, Secluded Bronte. Each presentation will in turn respond "to the unique circumstances of creating work that is simultanerously a live performance and a radio broadcast."
Thu 8 Sep: Curator talk at DCA
From 4.30-5.30pm in the Centrespace on the lower levels of Dundee Contemporary Arts, there is a curator's talk for Publishing as Process. This new project presents artists' publishing by Banner Repeater, the train station art space in London. Then between 5.30-7.30pm, there is is the preview of the exhibition, which continues until 29 September.
Fri 9 Sep: New shows at Modern Institute, CCA, SWG3, Generator
Two new exhibitions open in The Modern Institute from 7-9pm. In the Aird's Lane spaces, they will show established artist Nicolas Party's uncanny paintings, as well as emerging Brooklyn-born abstract-figurative painter Walter Price in the nearby Brickspace.
Heading through town to CCA, Glasgow-based artists Sukaina Kubba and Natalie McGowan from 6-9pm present a new collaborative project that is an "exposé/display" of different objects, fragments, props and setpieces that suggest "possible occurences". Employing different visual means of changing angles and magnification, they look to the space between idea and object and when thought takes form. Titled Double-Bind, the exhibition wil continue until Saturday 1 October.
Over in Eastvale Estate, Grinding Series: Gustavo Ferro opens at SWG3 from 6-9pm. The Sao Paulo-based Brazilian artist presents the results of a residency in Glasgow. For this, he will present his engagement with urban situations and environments in the city with emphasis on architecture as an "obstacle to mould social behaviours in public space". This takes the form of installations, drawing, video and intervention.
Over in Dundee there's Something About Breaking Limbs Off Statues in Generator Projects from 7pm. Each of the three artists in this group show consider "transitional circumstances" and a "state of liminality" through different fragments, "broken lines" and "calculated restrictions." See Sunday's listings for details of their conversation event ...
Sat 10 Sep: Performance at Tramway
In Tramway, they present another performance tying in with their current exhibition Flashlight Filmstrip Projections from 3-3.30pm. It's part of American artist Jennifer West's current installation in Tramway of suspended film strips, illuminates by torches held by visitors.
Sun 11 Sep: House for an Art Lover, Generator Projects
More from Something About Breaking Limbs Off Statues in Generator Projects, as all of the participating artists are in conversation from 3pm, and light refreshments will be provided.
Participatory artist Elena May Harris begins her exhibition at House for an Art Lover with a communal meal from 2-4pm. Opening her Empire Exhibition 2016 project, the works on display have been made with communities and organisations in the local area in responses to the historical event of the British Empire Exhibition of 1938, which despite being overhyped had "little lasting impact for the local people".
Mon 12 Sep: Closing party at Laurieston Arches
Parallel Dimensions has its celebratory closing party from 6-8pm, which will involve more performances from the recent graduates involved.