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Member picks
January can seem like the longest month so here is a selection of some exhibitions, and opportunities from within the SCAN membership, to inspire you. You can also follow us on socials for regular updates across Scotland:
'At the shore, everything touches' is the first iteration of a project that considers the changing nature of artist Tako Taal’s family’s home village in The Gambia – Juffureh. This exhibition comprises a new video and sound installation, SAMT utterance_01 (how a name becomes a step, a rhythm, a loop), accompanying collage and facsimiles of familial photographs and documents belonging to the artist.
▷▥◉▻ by artist Rae-Yen Song gives viewers a glimpse of an alternate dimension, shaped according to the ancestral logics and imagined futures of Song’s family, serving simultaneously as a spectacle, a memorial and a refuge. Song utilises sculpture, textiles, printmaking, sound and moving image to explore a myriad of themes such as self-mythologising as a survival tactic: using fantasy to create a personal cultural language informed by autobiography, family stories, relationships and memories.
Both exhibitions continue until 20th March.
Arts organisation Timespan in Helmsdale seeks a new Director. They are looking for a person to continue their research and civic driven programme integrating heritage and contemporary art. Timespan are very much community based and you will be working with an experienced Board of Directors, an inventive team and dedicated volunteers. Timespan was a finalist for the world’s largest museum prize, the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021. Find out more and apply here.
Joey Simons’ exhibition at Collective, Edinburgh titled ‘The fearful part of it was the absence’ is on view until 13th March. This new exhibition investigates the periodic eruption and absence of rioting in Glasgow, and its effect on the shape of the city. Taking its title from Henry Cockburn’s observations on the ‘terrible silence’ and ‘fearful absence of riot’ that characterised the great demonstrations in Scotland in support of parliamentary reform in 1832, Joey’s exhibition pieces together a constellation of historical and contemporary sources to explore a recurring pattern of response and erasure to collective violence in the city.
Elsewhere in the capital, Edinburgh Art Festival are calling for applications to Platform, their annual exhibition annual exhibition designed to provide a dedicated platform for early career artists working in the field of contemporary art. 3 to 4 selected artists will be invited to present their work in a group exhibition as part of the 2022 festival and will be supported by the festival team throughout the development of the exhibition. Invited selectors for 2022 will be writer and curator, Seán Elder, and artist Lucy Skaer.
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