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Glasgow International final weekend

This weekend is the last chance to enjoy Glasgow International which closes on Sunday 27 June. 

Originally scheduled to open in April 2020, the festival comprises over 70 exhibitions and events, performances and talks at over 30 spaces across the city and online, showcasing work by over 100 artists. The festival’s theme is Attention which invites us to think about how we pay attention to things and the people around us, and the place of art in this.


We are delighted to see the return of Glasgow International. As our curatorial partners for Scotland + Venice 2022, we have seen first hand the challenges that GI has had to overcome to bring the festival back safely. We could not be more pleased or proud of the team to see it return with what is a key milestone on the road to our recovery.

Visit the GI website for more information on the programme of exhibitions and events.

Image: Alan Richardson Pix-Ar
What If...?/Scotland at V&A Dundee

Scotland + Venice's commission for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, What if...?/Scotland is now on at V&A Dundee from Saturday 22 May until Sunday 21 November 2021. 

Designed by award winning Edinburgh based architecture and design practice, 7N Architects in partnership with Architecture & Design Scotland, it was originally planned to be staged in Venice as part of this year's Architecture Exhibition. What if…?/Scotland responds to the Biennale’s theme How will we live together?, seeking to re-engage the civic role of design professionals by asking communities from across Scotland to share their hopes and dreams for the future of the places they call home.
View the exhibition walk through below
What if...?/Scotland exhibition walk through
Image: business as usual: hostile environment Alberta Whittle at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Photo by Ian Georgeson.
Scotland + Venice artists represented at Glasgow International 

We have been out and about at GI and thoroughly enjoying experiencing art in physical spaces once more. We have also been delighted to see a number of past Scotland + Venice artists represented at the festival which has given us an excuse to delve into our ever evolving archive.

In December we were thrilled to announce the news that Alberta Whittle has been chosen to represent Scotland at La Biennale in 2022, presenting a timely and ambitious exhibition of new work curated by Glasgow International. You can catch her latest body of work by visiting business as usual: hostile environment as part of Glasgow Sculpture Studios's Canal Programme which explores the colonial history of the Forth and Clyde canal and the role of waterways in the voluntary and involuntary movement of people. 

Resisting the temptation to misspell
Graham Fagen's name and become part of a future iteration of Ping Pong Club, showing at Queens Park Railway Station until 27 June, you can also hear Graham and Maria Fusco reflect on the importance of names and how they relate to our identity and culture in Episode 7 of GI's Encounters podcast series. Graham represented Scotland at the 56th International Art Exhibition in 2016 with a solo exhibition curated by Hospitalfield. 

Duncan Campbell represented Scotland at the 55th International Art Exhibition in 2013 as part of Sworn, Campbell, Tompkins and is showing o Joan, no... , at Barrowland Ballroom, a film work described as a work of no narrative, in which nothing is said, until 27 June. 

Two new 16mm films by Luke Fowler are showing at the Moder
n Institute until 27 June, which take as their subject matter the domestic archives of letters and notes created by the artist’s parents. Luke was part of the group exhibition, Zenomap for the 49th International Art Exhibition in 2003.

If you have any material relating to any of our previous exhibitions which could be added to our archive, please get in touch at development@scotlandandvenice.com.
 
Image: courtesy of Alberta Whittle and Art Night
Art Night 2021

As part of Art Night 2021, Alberta Whittle will present a major new commission taking the voice of the River Thames as its starting point. Working with science fiction writer Ama Josephine Budge, Alberta’s commission looks at colonial histories, police brutality and imagined futures offering time and space for healing and reset.

The work will manifest as Holding the Line: a refrain in two parts, a film which will be screened as part of the online programme and as a performance, DIS- A lesson in Reversal or Unlearning, which will take place at Two Temple Place, London on 9 July.

In connection with this new commission, Creating dangerously (we-I insist!) groups together Holding the Line: a refrain in two parts with existing film works business as usual: hostile environment (a REMIX) and RESET, as a trilogy of films. This trilogy will be presented at Platfform 2 with Peak, at Abergavenny Station in Wales; at CCA, Derry-Londonderry and at KLA ART, in Uganda.

Catch all the online commissions again as part of the marathon screening at 8pm, Thursday 15th July.
 
Scotland + Venice provides architects and artists based in Scotland with a valuable platform to showcase their work on the international stage at the Venice Biennale and is a partnership between Creative Scotland, British Council Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Architecture and Design Scotland and the Scottish Government.
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