Press Release
Ruth Barker Louise Briggs Allison Gibbs Stuart Gurden Anna Mields
Curated By Allison Gibbs
Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th September 2009
12pm - 6pm Daily
Pacific Quay,
Pacific Drive,
Glasgow G51 1DA
(Behind BBC Scotland/ Next to Festival Park)
Opening Performance By Ruth Barker
2pm Saturday 19th September
(assemble at 1:45pm at the meeting point)
Festival Deríve
A plant identification walk
2pm Sunday 20th September
(assemble at 1:45pm at the meeting point)
Due to uneven, wet ground and natural vegetation it is advisable to wear walking shoes or wellies and to keep to the suggested route. Please do not enter areas marked "out of bounds" on the map. Children must be supervised at all times. The site will be invigilated during the published opening times only.
Situated on pre-development wasteland in Glasgow's accumulating media epicentre Pacific Quay, Temporary Nature brings five Glasgow based artists spaciously together to present newly commissioned sound, performance, text and sculptural works.
A former fragment of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, the site, now part urban rambling ground, part social drop out space, exists as a rare interstitial landscape within the city; neither true wilderness, nor tended parkland.
For one weekend Ruth Barker, Louise Briggs, Allison Gibbs, Stuart Gurden and Anna Mields enter into a tenuous relationship with this open, unregulated land, its surrounding mythologies and potential actualities to create interjections of subtlety and skewed monumentality, all of which are however ultimately transient.
Utillising one of only two existing built structures within the site, Louise Briggs creates a fictional text-based work introducing the viewer to the site and what temporarily inhabits it.
Similarly drawing on the parallel framework of distance and closeness, Stuart Gurden and Anna Mields encourage our attention also towards the environment surrounding and beyond the artwork's immediate location. Using a found stone 'seat' on the site, with a direct view of the BBC Scotland building, Gurden presents a new incongruously charged audio piece based on a found poster and Mields' sculptural installation consisting of triangular facade elements that imitate the interstice between two houses, invites the viewer onto a stage like platform where He or She can walk in between the walls of this architectural fragment to face by choice the horizon or the wall.
Cosmology, geology and the secondary materials of construction synthesize in Allison Gibbs' sculptural work Crystal Habits. Within the protruding crystalline form the ground itself becomes a vertiginous point of perspective where mutation, illusion and festival pavilions are played upon.
The project will open with The Deer Woman, a new site specific performance work by Ruth Baker that will take place in the site's most concealed and intimate corner. The script, which will be recited from memory, describes two mirrored narratives of The Deer Woman; a violent, sexually ambivalent female figure from the fringes of both traditional Ponca cultural belief, and more contemporary American folklore. The work will be performed once only, at 2pm on Saturday 19th September. Please assemble at the meeting point (see map) at 1.45pm.
Festival Deríve ; A plant identification walk will take place on Sunday 20th of September at 2pm. Botany curious visitors will be led by a special horticultural guest on an urban ramble through this abundant nature pocket to discover potential steadfast remnants of the Festival of 1988.
Please assemble at the meeting point (see map) at 1.45pm
This project would not have been possible without the generous support of Grosvenor Developments Limited and the Hope Scott Trust
Curated By Allison Gibbs
Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th September 2009
12pm - 6pm Daily
Pacific Quay,
Pacific Drive,
Glasgow G51 1DA
(Behind BBC Scotland/ Next to Festival Park)
Opening Performance By Ruth Barker
2pm Saturday 19th September
(assemble at 1:45pm at the meeting point)
Festival Deríve
A plant identification walk
2pm Sunday 20th September
(assemble at 1:45pm at the meeting point)
Due to uneven, wet ground and natural vegetation it is advisable to wear walking shoes or wellies and to keep to the suggested route. Please do not enter areas marked "out of bounds" on the map. Children must be supervised at all times. The site will be invigilated during the published opening times only.
Situated on pre-development wasteland in Glasgow's accumulating media epicentre Pacific Quay, Temporary Nature brings five Glasgow based artists spaciously together to present newly commissioned sound, performance, text and sculptural works.
A former fragment of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, the site, now part urban rambling ground, part social drop out space, exists as a rare interstitial landscape within the city; neither true wilderness, nor tended parkland.
For one weekend Ruth Barker, Louise Briggs, Allison Gibbs, Stuart Gurden and Anna Mields enter into a tenuous relationship with this open, unregulated land, its surrounding mythologies and potential actualities to create interjections of subtlety and skewed monumentality, all of which are however ultimately transient.
Utillising one of only two existing built structures within the site, Louise Briggs creates a fictional text-based work introducing the viewer to the site and what temporarily inhabits it.
Similarly drawing on the parallel framework of distance and closeness, Stuart Gurden and Anna Mields encourage our attention also towards the environment surrounding and beyond the artwork's immediate location. Using a found stone 'seat' on the site, with a direct view of the BBC Scotland building, Gurden presents a new incongruously charged audio piece based on a found poster and Mields' sculptural installation consisting of triangular facade elements that imitate the interstice between two houses, invites the viewer onto a stage like platform where He or She can walk in between the walls of this architectural fragment to face by choice the horizon or the wall.
Cosmology, geology and the secondary materials of construction synthesize in Allison Gibbs' sculptural work Crystal Habits. Within the protruding crystalline form the ground itself becomes a vertiginous point of perspective where mutation, illusion and festival pavilions are played upon.
The project will open with The Deer Woman, a new site specific performance work by Ruth Baker that will take place in the site's most concealed and intimate corner. The script, which will be recited from memory, describes two mirrored narratives of The Deer Woman; a violent, sexually ambivalent female figure from the fringes of both traditional Ponca cultural belief, and more contemporary American folklore. The work will be performed once only, at 2pm on Saturday 19th September. Please assemble at the meeting point (see map) at 1.45pm.
Festival Deríve ; A plant identification walk will take place on Sunday 20th of September at 2pm. Botany curious visitors will be led by a special horticultural guest on an urban ramble through this abundant nature pocket to discover potential steadfast remnants of the Festival of 1988.
Please assemble at the meeting point (see map) at 1.45pm
This project would not have been possible without the generous support of Grosvenor Developments Limited and the Hope Scott Trust
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