David Shrigley, Billy Teasdale, Alan Stanners

Expedition Basecampment

As part of the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow (11th – 15th February), New Work Network (NWN) and Space Station 65 are supporting Expedition Basecampment.

Expedition Basecampment is an invitation to take a journey that explores the National
Review of Live Art and Glasgow as you've never seen them before, considering the boundaries between storytelling and journeying.

Expedition parties will meet their logistical support officers at the project's basecamp at the NWN info exchange table at The Arches on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th February and journey from Basecamp to the dizzying heights of Basecampmental.

To provide explorers with spiritual and psychological sustenance on their journeys, inspirational gurus, will be waiting to meet each group and guide explorers with motivational sessions and altitude-defying narratives.

Expedition Basecampment provides participants an opportunity to examine the performative nature of travel by constructing a memorable narrative of NRLA 2009; looking at myth-making and information exchange, and collectively contributing to a unique newsletter. The project also offers participants the opportunity to explore structures of contemporary media and knowledge exchange, in a playful and unconventional manner.

IORRAM

IORRAM RECORDS RELEASES SMALL HANDMADE EDITIONS OF IMPROVISED AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC

Hapless, Helpless Hopeless at Market

a one off motorized screening of

Hapless, Helpless Hopeless

A film by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling

Saturday 24 Jan - 8pm sharp!(34 mins )

at Market, Duke Street

The street will be cordoned off, hot toddies will be available.

Karla Black

10 January - 14 February 2009 

MARY MARY

Black describes her works as, "almost painting, performance or installation while actually, and quite definitely, being sculpture". These sculptures and their titles, form a struggle between material experience and language, where the former wins first priority. They are rooted in Kleinian psychoanalysis: direct, behavioural connections to the physical world that hold a tangible knowledge impossible to equal in words but still partially, while certainly inadequately, translatable. Words are important here when used in their rightful, secondary place, where the conscious mind enters the work, after the unconscious has already created the bulk of its physicality.

Another Burns Supper

Burns Supper

Neville Rae: Bauhaus at the Lighthouse

Presentation and discussion about the Bauhaus research in Cumbernauld

Invited guest:
Gordon Murray, gordon murray + alan dunlop architects
Alan Pert, NORD - Glasgow - Glassworks Studios
Craig McIntyre, North Lanarkshire Council
Steven Griffith, Director, CNC Property Fund Management Limited
Diane Watters, Historian

At the Lighthouse in Glasgow

Hildesheim, Belfast, Glasgow

Pigeon Blog

PigeonBlog enlists homing pigeons to participate in a grassroots scientific data gathering initiative designed to collect and distribute information about air quality conditions to the general public.

Glasgow School of Art is the setting for new online soap

It gave the world the Scottish indie music scene, the Glasgow Boys and the finest example of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's design. Now Glasgow School of Art has a new progeny: it is set to become the backdrop of a new Channel 4 drama, based entirely online.

Told through YouTube-style video, photo sharing site Flickr, and social networking sites, Central Station will portray the lives, loves and artworks of three fictional second-year art students.

Peter Bevan: Love and Liberty

The Compass Gallery

25th January - 18th February

razing the barnes

click on image to go to view blog

440 artists and writers call on MSPs to kill off Creative Scotland

Among the more well-known signatories to the letter are the writers Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Zoe Strachan and Louise Welsh, visual artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Matt Hulse, and Alison Peebles.

More than 400 artists, writers, and producers have signed a letter to MSPs urging them to vote down the next attempt to establish Creative Scotland, the merger between the nation's main cultural bodies, the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen.

Glasgow demo for Gaza

Glasgow demo for Gaza: Saturday 3 January, 12.30

Israel is committing a shocking series of atrocities by using modern weaponry against a defenceless population - attacking a population that has been enduring a severe blockade for many months.

The UN Human Rights Council

DEMONSTRATE 

* HANDS OFF GAZA * STOP THE BOMBING * FREE PALESTINE 

SATURDAY 3 JANUARY 

Assemble 12.30pm 

March off 1.00pm 

Called by Stop the War Coalition (Scotland)