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Workshops+Talks

Spoiler Alert: The White Ego Dies

Talk and discussion with Danny Pagarini // 17th March 2018 // 15:00-17:00 // Market Corner Gallery

Steven Claydon says “An art work should…be operative…in that…liminal space between the thingly and the metaphoric or the narrative.”

Danny Pagarani says “What?…And that’s why you made replicas of those Papua New Guinean masks?”

At a time where the Conservative government of Theresa May, weak and bereft of ideas, is actively encouraging culture wars it is important to have a clear sense of what identity is and does. Danny will use Steven Claydon’s exhibition Archipelago of Contented Peoples (Common Guild, 2017) and the questions around ‘cultural appropriation’ it raises, to argue for the need to think about the performative, intra-acting configurations of history and power in which our conceptions of subject, object, self, other and identity continue to emerge. The presentation will be followed by a discussion.

Event is free and unticketed.

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intersections, collective care & collective love

Workshop with Aki // 18th March 2018 //12:00-14:00 // Market Gallery Corner Space

Kimberlé Crenshaw first coined the term ‘intersectionality’ in 1989. It is often used in critical theories to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from each other.

Closely referencing and expanding on Crenshaw’s ideology, Aki will facilitate a workshop where participants will work together to clarify their own backgrounds, privileges and position in the society.

This workshop will supply you with introductory material in regards to intersectionality, its derivation from Black feminism and some key tools that will guide you to apply this concept in everyday life. Aim of this workshop is to acknowledge that intersectionality is a collective effort, and that it essentially begins with self-evaluation and self-love.

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This workshop is only open to people of colour.

Event is free but ticketed: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intersections-collective-care-collective-love-tickets-44126378185

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There are only 8 spaces so please book soon and if you are unable to go, please email us at [email protected].

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Continued

Performance // 18th March 2018 // 13:00-15:00 // The Pipe Factory

A continuation of the performances from opening night with work from Samantha Alexa and Huss.

Huss is Middle Eastern artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Not bound by mediums, Huss works in a diverse array of specialisms such as installation, sculpture, performance and painting. Huss finds it important that he uses his work as an instrument to spread awareness about major issues originating within the Middle East or Third World Countries which Western society don’t acknowledge. Huss investigates concepts such as racism, ethnocentrism and xenophobic behaviours. His main source of influence comes from his own personal experience as a Middle Eastern within Scotland as well as the inner conflicting emotions felt for both the country he resides in, his culture and his country of birth.

Samantha Alexa was raised and educated in California, where she attended various summer camps and programmes including San Francisco’s Academy of Arts and California State Summer School for the Arts. Given her innate visual art abilities and ballet training of ten years, she chose to leave public school to pursue a more creative education. She joined Idyllwild Arts Academy, a boarding school where she lived and studied for three years, majoring in theatre. Shortly after graduating at the age of 18, she successfully campaigned to raise money for her first film, which she then went on to direct and edit. Her education then took her to Glasgow, Scotland, where she studied Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. There she learned it was possible to combine all these different disciplines of art bringing her creative journey full circle.

Re: Generation is

a nurtured creation.

a rebirth to inner power.

an expressive exploration of the metaphysical.

a futuristic journey of colour sight, sound, & movement.

a performance about reclaiming the body & mind.

about finding dimensions of divine.

A collaboration between

Samantha Alexa x Vaj. Power x AUCO

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Event is free and unticketed.

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In Conversation With Shaheeda Sinckler

Talk with Shaheeda Sinckler // 18th March 2018 // 15:00-16:00 // Market Gallery Corner Space

Shaheeda Sinckler is a Glasgow based artist, originating in London and half-raised in Edinburgh. Concerned with the politics of gender and race, Sinckler’s work investigates the complex and varied identities of a woman within her relationships, with others, and herself. She is a co-founder of Where People Sleep, an art gallery and exhibition space that exists inside a tenement space. Independent, homegrown, and artist-run, Where People Sleep aims to give artists a platform in a space free of judgement, encouraging experimentation and boosting confidence. The In Conversation, hosted by Karin Tokunaga, will explore the journey which has led Sinckler to become a multi-disciplinary artist who has left no stone unturned.

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Event is free and unticketed.

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