Video installation

Willie Doherty: Buried

14 May 2009

First impressions of Buried, a film made especially for Willie Doherty’s exhibition of the same name at The Fruitmarket, indicate that the Northern Irish artist has had a change of subject matter. We see a forest and can hear birdsong and other sounds…

Phillip Lai: Introduction and Jargon

14 May 2009

London-based Phillip Lai’s new work for Transmission gallery comprises a two-screen video presentation. One part was filmed in the artist’s studio, the other in the upper gallery at Transmission. This was an attempt to bring together the two remote…

New Work Scotland Project 2008: Lila de Magalhaes

18 Sep 2008

VIDEO INSTALLATION Over the last nine years, autumn at the Collective has heralded an annual showcase for artists making their solo-show debuts under the wing of the gallery’s New Work Scotland Project. The first of three shows this year is by Lila…

Interview - Zatorski

8 May 2008

David Pollock Why do you both refer to yourselves just as Zatorski, and not speak about your relationship? Zatorski We like the anonymity of it, really. There’s a pair of us, we work together, but otherwise we like the sexlessness and impersonality…

Them: Artur Zmijewski

28 Feb 2008

VIDEO AND INSTALLATION The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sat 22 Mar Polish filmmaker Artur Zmijewski has established an international reputation and this film, ‘Them’, was originally shown at Documenta 12. The film is a documentary ‘social…

Aernout Mik

22 May 2007

(Picture: Scapegoat) At first, it might seem surprising that Dutch artist Aernout Mik claims to care little about art. He argues that you might as well get rid of the words ‘experiencing art’. Yet, in going against his orders and experiencing the…

Wael Shawky

Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 31 Mar-Sat 21 A

27 Mar 2007

VIDEO INSTALLATION Collective Gallery’s exhibition program resumes with a solo show of work by Egypt born Wael Shawky. Shawky’s work is multifarious but deals primarily with culture and religion, juxtaposing, comparing and contrasting one with the…

Aron Tarjani and Miranda Whall: If I Open My Eyes I Might See Teeth

Washington Garcia, Glasgow, run ended

12 Feb 2007

VIDEO INSTALLATION The second offering from the Glasgow artist-run collective Washington Garcia brings together video and film work by Hungarian artist Aron Tarjani and Cardiff-based Miranda Whall. (Their first exhibition, a month ago, featured…

Catherine Sullivan

The fourth wall: the Self

20 Dec 2006

We are witnessing a return to the hermetic, the abstract and the dissonant in art. This is because the falsely unified, centered subject - the awful misconceived and misunderstood sovereign child of the Enlightenment - has not been dethroned or…

Catherine Sullivan

An exhibition of two new works by LA-based artist

6 Dec 2006

INTERVIEW Alexander Kennedy Could you tell us about the work on show at the CCA? Catherine Sullivan ‘Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land’ (2003), which is a five channel projection work short on 16mm film and shown on video, and ‘The Resuscitation of…

Cezary Bodzianowski

Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 25 Nov

11 Nov 2006

VIDEO INSTALLATION A convex mirror throws back your warped image from the corner of a space. You could be standing on the platform at Cowcadens watching yourself waiting for the tube, or standing in Cezary Bodzianowski’s exhibition at Sorcha Dallas…