Erica Eyres Baby Marleena

 

Part One

Untitled (2006) 2:58. Anne-Marie Copestake lives in Glasgow, and is currently doing a Caravan Club residency in the 'customised caravan' Stirlingshire. Her practice comprises of video, works on paper, writing and Trigger Tonic (an interview archive). Recent exhibitions include a solo show in Glasgow International and the group show 'Planting the Tele' at Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow.

Erica Eyres Baby Marleena (2006) 4:30 “Baby Marleena is what is commonly known as a mermaid, and for this reason, has spent her whole life in the bathtub. Her mother, Tamarra, wants to show the world what a day in their lives is like”.

Kismet (2006) 1:40 Elizabeth Anne Harris is a Scottish artist based in Paisley who makes work that explores the mechanics of film. This is not purely a technical exercise but one that explores the ontological implications of the filmic medium and the manner in which it mirrors and distorts the individuals perceptions of the present, past and future of our existential reality.

Interval

Fred Pedersen documents banal events and brief encounters with strangers. He investigates formal relationships such as those between the individual subjects and their environment; those specific to photography that emerge during the process of photographing, between the photographer and subject, author and viewer. The connections between the photographs emphasise their real and constructed similarities, establishing a resistance by each photograph to be categorised as either document or fiction, existing as both simultaneously.

Anne-Marie Copestake, Untitled

 

Part Two

Deleted Scenes – Hypo planning (2006) 2:25 Alex Pensato is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver who has recently exhibited at Or Gallery , Vancouver and Werner Whitman, Montreal. Alex Pensato began Deleted Scenes in 2002. Using post-production techniques to erase all the actors from the opening interrogation scene from the film Blade Runner Pensatos then superimposes a subtitled dialogue of his own creation.

o Joan, no… (2006) 14:37 ‘o Joan, no... begins in darkness; abstract darkness; primordial darkness perhaps. As the film progresses the darkness is interrupted by light or a light. A random sequence of lights ensues – theatre lights, streetlights, household lights, the lit end of a cigarette. The camera greets these interruptions in the darkness with alarm, reticence, perplexity, curiosity. The accompanying voice emits a series of grunts, moans, sighs, laughs. Nothing happens.’ Duncan Campbell

Gordon Schmidts Mai 68/Comeback Special (74 min) is made by combining original B/W film footage of the student demonstrations in Paris with the audio from Elvis Presley's famous televised 'Comeback Special' of the same year. The interlacing of these two materials found in a public library reflects the artists intentionally subjective and D.I.Y approach to the reading of historically meaningful cultural events - essentially the piece is a 'mash-up'. (3:45 selected segment screened)

Gordon Schmidt, Mai '68/Comeback Special

 

Installation

Ultralow (1998) continuous loop on monitor. Ultralow is an early video work by Glasgow based artist Jim Lambie. In the piece the artist uses cigarettes as performative material within the work. The result is a subtle and slowly hypnotic video which at one moment appears like a flickering constellation then at another disappears completely.