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Melanie Gilligan

Melanie Gilligan

(3 stars)8 May 2008

PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 10 May This exhibition by London-based artist and writer Melanie Gilligan takes place not in the usual Transmission gallery, but in an upper Wasps studio space opposite. The…

Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy

(5 stars)24 Apr 2008

FILM, PERFORMANCE AND PAINTING Washington Garcia, Glasgow, until Sun 27 Apr New-York based Kalup Linzy is more Vaginal Davis than a ‘Paris is Burning’ starlet, more Judy la Bruce (Bruce’s alter-ego) than Hedwig. But it cannot be denied that all of…

Three Blows

Three Blows

3 Jul 2008

PERFORMANCE St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 5 & Sun 6 Jul As the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, St Cecilia’s Hall is in possession of unique acoustic properties. St Cecilia, of course, was the patron saint of church music, whose…

Body Parts 3

RSA, Edinburgh, run ended

(3 stars)13 Mar 2007

PERFORMANCE The essence of performance art is its unpredictability. From the medium’s rise in the 1960s and 70s with early shock tactics, such as artist Chris Burden’s infamous ‘Shoot’ where the artist was shot in the arm at close range, to work like…

Giles Bailey - Sound Examples for 'Average Performance' Experiments

Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 18 Nov

(3 stars)11 Nov 2006

INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE What are we other than a bag of warped memories with some genitals attached? The decentered subject that was heralded almost 40 years ago is a theoretical construction that has just not caught on. The postmodern subject…

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