23 June 2010 at 6pm
This month we will be revisiting the Collective Gallery to view Patchwork Cinema, a new body of work by Torsten Lauschmann which deconstructs the experience of time and cinema through the projected image.
As an artist, filmmaker and live performer, Lauschmann celebrates glitches and out-takes, bits in between and images that might be easy to ignore. Born in Germany and based in Glasgow, Lauschmann’s work has evolved beyond straight photography and film works to investigate the mechanics of digital processes, software creation, experimental editing, approaches to performance and the sculptural potential of video installation.
In Patchwork Cinema, Compilation 1, Lauschmann questions the formalised cinema experience and highlights the pivotal point in early cinema when film presentation was not prescribed in the same way. This work is an alternative cinema experience with an assemblage of found film footage with the addition of sound and lighting effects which have been programmed to trigger a further reimagining of how we view film.
Prior to entering Patchwork Cinema, visitors can view Digital Clock (Growing Zeros) 2010 consisting of a looped 24-hour projection of a digital clock with the red numerals changed manually by visible hands. This less formal digital time matches correct time local time. We will also be able to see Lauschmanns experiment with pre-cinema optics which transforms one of Collectives gallery spaces into a camera obscura.
21 October 2009 at 6.30pm
Torsten Lauschmann’s recent works centre on the breaking down of the vocabularies that exist within a contemporary art practice, with his work attempting to decode the intended messages found there. Free from an obligation to communicate specific meaning, Lauschmann’s works have an openness in interpretation and manipulation, which include film and installation works, that use clips from both a personal and found collection, installed so as to strip and order the narrative. With this, Lauschmann is playfully altering a sense of time and origin, and constructing visual fables, which are deliberately invented or falsified.
For his show at the Mary Mary, Lauschmann will present a group of film works, wall paintings and a series of video and slide projections, featuring archive footage of the Fairground Sideshow and focuses on the use of light as an expressive medium both within film and painted surface.
Born 1970 in Bad Soden, Germany, Lauschmann lives and works in Glasgow. Recent exhibitions include solo shows such as Nought to Sixty, ICA, London; Arnolfini, Bristol and Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, all 2008.
17 April 2004
Spin was invited by the Scottish Arts Council and UZ Events to organise talks, informal discussions and bus tours for the public at the Glasgow Art Fair. Spin used the opportunity to organise an exclusive bus tour for Spin members, which took in the highlights of RAW (Real Art Weeknd) and included a brunch reception (courtesy of Spins sponsor at the Glasgow Art Fair, the City Inn on Finnieston Quay).
Accompanied by artist and gallerist, Sorcha Dallas, we visited:
Tramway’s Hidden Garden, with works by Alec Finlay and others
Glasgow Sculpture Studios: Daria Martin and Sophie Macpherson
Glasgow Project Room: Torsten Lauschmann
Street Level Photoworks: Beverley Hood
Switchspace: Jane Topping and Lynn Hand
Glasgow Art Fair
Along the way we met artists Torsten Lauschmann, Beverley Hood, Marianne Greated (co-curator of Switchspace) and Jane Topping.
