Vibrating, pulsating, claustrophobic: words that may spring to mind were you to find yourself stuck in a working database. Though this is an experience unlikely to present itself, Small Gate, Infinite Field, an exhibition by Glasgow artist Christopher Macinnes, comes as close as it may be possible to get. But database like or not, Read More
James Lee and Natasha Dijkhoff are both graduates of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. They both live and work in Dundee – James is the Gallery Manager at Meadow Mill Wasps Studios and Natasha is a printmaking technician at Dundee University. Both artists, it seems, share a love of shapes and texture, but they Read More
Commissioned for NEoN Digital Arts, Sounds and Stripes invites the viewer into a realm where old and new technologies mingle. These deeply immersive works from Japanese artist Ei Wada are created by hijacking and modifying outdated electronic devices. Analogue televisions, wires, cameras and speakers are repurposed to become digitally performative musical arrangements. As its name Read More
In-between spaces, contemplative reflection and stillness. Surrealist fantasies saturated with disorder and unreality. Tomorrow Was a Montage is a curation of works by Polish and Hungarian artists spanning across multiple generations – the result feels like a flashback from a half-remembered, vaguely unsettling dream. Timelessness implicit in the title, the worlds of animation, film posters Read More
Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) are a Seoul-based duo formed in 1999. Since then, American poet Marc Voge and Korean artist/translator Young Hae Chang have been producing innovative text-based animations which incorporate their signature font, Monaco. Self-described as “digital literature”, their work has been translated into over 20 languages and exhibited at both Tate London and Centre Pompidou. Their ambitious work, despite containing a Read More
Tramway is a well-chosen venue for this year’s Turner Prize exhibition, Tell Me Something New. The contrast between the concrete inserts of the tram tracks and the clean minimalistic display gives an everyday feel which complements the work’s social significance. However although the setting enhances the artwork, I find the layout a little confusing. This Read More
Through drawings, paintings and animations, Hideyuki Katsumata invites you into a fantasy world that is not only his largest exhibition to date, but also his first in the UK. Coming from a background of fashion design and creating artworks for musical clients via record sleeves and animations for music videos for artists such as Little Dragon Read More
Thingness? is the latest exhibition to emerge from the Cooper Summer Residency. The Cooper Gallery hosted an interesting group this year, with Joseph Fletcher being the first philosopher to be invited to the residency, to work alongside artists Anouchka Oler and Oliver Braid through discussions and explorations of Object-Oriented Ontology – the privileging of nonhuman Read More
Open studios and exhibitions staged outside traditional white-walled gallery spaces are invariably more welcoming than those occurring within institutional confines. Enjoying art in less fussy surroundings encourages us to be less fearful of the maker or the medium; thus liberated, we become more curious about form and craft even as we savour the transgressive freedom Read More
A Swiss artist, Roman Signer’s work has avoided the category of “process based” art; yet in suggesting previous interactions between established objects, he, like others, deconstructs your sense of art as a finished work. However, his pieces avoid such categorizations through their inclusion of a visual aftermath; the depiction of the development process and finished Read More