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Threshold artspace | Current exhibitions and events

No Money, no honey | joana bastos

The first solo show in the UK by this acclaimed Portuguese artist

Part of Portuguese Waves – a five-part series of new commissions, exhibitions and events  celebrating the vibrant Portuguese contemporary art culture

curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira 

Exhibition | 14 feb – 13 mar 10

Artist’s Talk | off-site at Glasgow School of Art | date to be confirmed

Curator’s Guided Tours | By prior arrangement through e-mailing inedkova@horsecross.co.uk

Read More | Forthcoming journal issue with a newly commissioned essay by Jenny Brownrigg         

Exhibition Guide

Joana Bastos | Babaysitting

 

Pictures are not Movies 

António Olaio

Exhibition | 14 nov 09 - ongoing

Initially exhibited as part of Cinematic – part one of Portuguese Waves. Shown both on site at Threshold Stage Screen – the area of the artspace dedicated to Internet-based artists' works, as well as at Threshold artspace YouTube channel where it continues to be on view: 

Threshold artspace youtube channel

Cinematic | Antonio Olaio

 

Instant Light. the magic of polaroid

The first solo exhibition in a public institution by this Glasgow-born Perth-based artist. Part of Horsecross Collect + Support initiative for collectable contemporary art   

Sheila Borthwick

curated by Iliyana Nedkova

Saturday Brunch Preview |  14 nov 09 | 11 am - 1pm

Exhibition | 14 nov 09 - 20 mar 10

Exhibition Guide

 

Sheila Borthwick

 

Game Flags

Horsecross first commission for the urban environment sited on the 3 banners around Perth Concert Hall building, which houses the Threshold artspace

Vuk Coscic

exhibition | 1 Aug 09 – ongoing

festive closure | 15 nov 09 – 12 jan 10

Commissioned and acquired as part of the Horsecross collection of contemporary art in 2009. Initially exhibited as part of Out of Character | Vuk Cosic

Exhibition views coming soon here

Vuk Cosic | Out of Character

 

File Extinguisher

Vuk Cosic 

exhibition | 1 Aug  09 – ongoing 

Excavating the history of the Internet, the artist stumbled upon the seminal Rand Memorandum RM-3420-PR (1960) by engineer Paul Baran. Describing a model of distributed network, intended to survive an eventual nuclear attack, Baran’s document however was published without ... the file extinguisher. Rectifying this omission, Cosic creates a tongue-in-cheek online application as a ‘safety tool’ for any files or websites which need deleting.

become a filefighter now, embrace the zeitgeist

file extinguisher

File Extinguisher

Commissioned and acquired as part of the Horsecross collection of contemporary art in 2009. Initially exhibited at Threshold Stage Screen as part of Out of Character | Vuk Cosic. Programming by Aleš Gabrovec. Initially commissioned by Hamaca, Barcelona and the Institute for Contemporary Art, London.

 

 

Figure Skating

Julita Wojcik 

exhibition | 9 May 09 – ongoing

The first artwork by Julita Wojcik to appear on YouTube. Acquired as part of the Horsecross collection of contemporary art in 2009. Initially exhibited at Threshold artspace YouTube channel as part of Domestic Modernism | Julita Wojcik

Threshold artspace youtube channel

 

Figure Skating | Julita Wojcik

 

Artist's YouTube mix (1960-2007)

Igor Krenz

exhibition | 4 Apr 09 – ongoing

Commissioned by Horsecross and initially exhibited at Threshold Stage Screen and Threshold artspace YouTube channel as part of Circles and Squares | Igor Krenz

Threshold artspace youtube channel

 

YouTube Mix

 

cantus

alec finlay

exhibition | 10 may 08 – ongoing

Commissioned by Horsecross and initially exhibited at Threshold Wave as a 22 channel video installation. Subsequently re-created as the current Internet-based endless circular poem with a theme and variations. Premiered as part of Primary Ingredients group show exploring the primacy of text in contemporary artists' visual grammar. 

cantus

Alec Finlay Arvo Part

In the artist’s own words: “It arose from my experience of hearing Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, lying in bed listening to Radio Three on a dark and rainy night. The music interfusing with the rain was suggestive of John Cage’s experience of listening to records in his cabin at Stony Point, and hearing the sounds of the surrounding woodland come in his open window, mixing in with the music.

Arvo Part’s later compositions, sometimes referred to as a form of spiritual minimalism, reflect a deep personal crisis: an impasse that he overcame by immersing himself in early music —  plainsong, Gregorian chant and polyphony. His later style is characterised by simple harmonies, often single unadorned notes. Another characteristic of Pärt's later works is that they are frequently settings for sacred texts.

My poem suggests aspects of Part’s life, faith and style, using a few simple words, their changes suggesting notes moving up or down a scale, creating verbal slippages of meaning, mishearings. There are echos of an earlier piece that I published in a contemporary Book of Hours, ‘Faith & Failure’ (Hours, 2003).”

 




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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