Linder

Perhaps best known for her collage cover to the Buzzcock's Orgasm Addict, Linder has been mashing up pornographic imagery, punk rock attitude and tough feminism for the best part of three decades. An inspiration to Howard Devoto and Morrissey, she has been, by turns, band leader, visual and performance artist, injecting all of her work with an iconoclastic ferocity.

Like many artists in the avant-garde, Linder's method is collage. For The Darktown Cakewalk, she juxtaposes musician Stuart McCallum from the Cinematic Orchestra against Cerruti fashion designer Richard Nicoll against a variety of other musicians and dancers.

Commissioned by Glasgow International, Darktwon promises "a secret history of diversity and dissent." From witch trials to beauty queens, via rag time and Euro Pop, Linder takes High Fashion and uses it to expose the hidden stories behind the modern world.

The New York Times recently compares Linder's performance to "DaDa antics and eccentrics like the Baronness Elsa von Freytag-Lovinghoven, a poet and sculptor who turned up at New York DaDa parties wearing a birdcage or tail-lights." It is this sense of history, given a cotemporary edge, that sets Linder above many junior shock artists.

Linder's art sits in the same line of individualistic feminist protest as Marina Abromovich or Liz Aggiss, using tradition to forge new, untested associations: the introduction of fashion designer Nicoll and musician McCallum extends her series of creative collaborations beyond the visual medium