15 February 2012 at 6.30pm
A visit to Transmission Gallery to discuss the work of Anja Kirschner and David Panos. There will also be an opportunity to see the newly established Transmission Gallery Resource Room which houses an incredible archive, collected and collated by the gallery, through the years.
Athens-based artists Anja Kirschner and David Panos present a new multi-channel video installation entitled Living Truthfully under Imaginary Circumstances. The work considers the acting techniques developed by Sanford Meisner, which remain highly influential on American theatre and Hollywood cinema. Based on a set of persuasive assumptions about the ‘true’ nature of human behavior, the Meisner Technique paradoxically combines an unnatural training routine of intense repetition and observational feedback with the prospect of authentic experience and emotion in performance.
The installation combines footage of young actors working with Meisners exercises and material from the history of theatre and cinema. Kirschner and Panos aim to interrogate the assumptions of post-modern naturalism and its blurring of the distinction between dramatic artifice and seemingly primal, human impulses.
24 January 2012 at 6.30pm
A visit to the studio of emerging artist, Oliver Braid. He is a visual artist whose work explores the contemporary critical currencies of affection, buoyancy and cameradie, evaluating their contribution to the production and motivation of creative inspiration through a practise with a strong focus on collaboration and co-operation. Most recently, Oliver has presented his project, I’ll Look Forward To It at Collective in Edinburgh – a multi-stranded investigation into the role of expectation in creativity and relationships – as part of the 2011 New Work Scotland Season. In 2012 he will present a new solo exhibition My Five New Friends at The Royal Standard, Liverpool and a new performance at Tramway, Glasgow as part of their New Work Symposium. Throughout 2012, he is also co-presenting a new weekly radio show with artist Ellie Harrison, hosted by CultureLab, Newcastle and is involved with the artist’s therapy group Artist Anonymous.
15 April 2009 at 6.30pm
Join our SPIN host Alhena Katsof for an exciting visit to Transmission gallery. There we will meet with some of Transmission’s current committee members to discuss the new group exhibition, Preparatory Ways, featuring the work of Karen Cunningham, Yuen Fong Ling, Sophie Mackfall and Ralo Mayer.
The four artists in Preparatory Ways each have distinct lines of enquiry and exploratory approaches to art making. In the gallery context, these disparate practices interplay, revealing exciting overlaps in research and artistic vocabularies. The exhibitions features new video, sculpture, painting and installation works.
Karen Cunningham is a Glasgow-based artist who graduated from the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art in 2003. Karen has just returned from the Scottish Arts Council Residency in Amsterdam. Yuen Fong Ling completed the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art in 2007. He lives and works in Salford and is working on a Fine Art PhD at the University of Lincoln. Sophie Mackfall was born in York and now lives and works in Glasgow. Sophie graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Ralo Mayer lives and works in Vienna. Ralo studied comparative literature and conceptual art in Vienna and Copenhagen and now works as an artist and translator for the Science fiction magazine Multiplex Fiction.
Transmission Gallery
Transmission Gallery was set up in 1983 by graduates from Glasgow School of Art who were dissatisfied with the lack of exhibition spaces and opportunities for young artists in Glasgow. Since 1983, Transmission has become a model for artist led initiatives throughout the UK. It is a vital artist-run organisation that has a seminal role in the Scottish contemporary art scene. Transmission Gallery is managed by a committee of six volunteers who each work for up to two years. Transmission evolves under the influence of each successive committee member and the regular changes in the Gallery’s committee maintain a fluid and varied relationship with developing concerns in the world of the visual arts.
21 February 2007 at 6.30pm
A visit to the Transmission Gallery and their current exhibition with artist Rob Kennedy, Something is wrong here, something should be done about it.
Transmission was set up in 1983 by graduates from Glasgow School of Art who were dissatisfied with the lack of exhibition spaces and opportunities for young artists in Glasgow. Through sponsorship and support from the Scottish Arts Council, they managed and maintained a space in which to exhibit their work. They also began to invite artists who had influenced them, to show in the gallery and become part of this dialogue. The range of contacts grew through projects with similar organisations such as City Racing in London and Artemisia in Chicago. This exchange of ideas has continued with Transmission providing a model for other artist collectives like Catalyst in Belfast and Generator in Dundee. Many of Glasgow’s well known contemporary artists served on the voluntary committee at one point or another since the gallery started and today, it still holds an important place in the visual arts network in Glasgow.
We will look at the work of Rob Kennedy, an artist based in Glasgow, whose work shifts between sculpture, video and live video manipulation.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Making up for lost time, part of Purescreen at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; the group show Art Today at the Goethe Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria in 2006, a collaborative project with Torsten Lauschmann and Transmission Gallery for Radiance Festival, Glasgow; and a group show, In between times, at Tramway, Glasgow in 2005.
In 2004, Kennedy’s video entitled Youre not blank, created in collaboration with Diskono, was exhibited at Tate Britain as part of Art Now Lightbox. This year he is a recipient of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screens film and video award which will enable him to produce a series of collaborative live video projects.
