Events

Glasgow

Between 27 May and 21 August, British Art Show 7 will take place at three of Glasgow's premier art destinations. Some events require booking. Please contact the venue for details.

  • 18 Jun

    Christian Marclay

    24-hour screening: The Clock
    Noon Saturday 18 June - Noon Sunday 19 June

    A rare opportunity to see Christian Marclay's highly acclaimed film in a single screening. 

    The Clock is a montage of clips from several thousand films, showing scenes featuring clocks and watches, or situations indicating a particular time of day. Presenting an extraordinary patchwork history of film, it also functions as an actual timepiece, always conveying the correct time, minute by minute, wherever it is shown.

    Centre for Contemporary Arts
    Admission free, but ticketed.  To book call 0141 352 4900.

  • 02 Jul

    Gail Pickering

    Performance: Sixty Six Signs of Neon
    Saturday 2 July, 7pm 

    Gail Pickering’s works are layerings of performed fictions, constructed and sourced through specific sites as well as historical and political events. For British Art Show 7, she presents Sixty Six Signs of Neon, a live film montage which includes a performance transmitted in real time from a remote studio. The work extends Pickering’s interest in forms of socio-political theatre and historical examples of live television broadcasting through an unfolding series of scenarios and interruptions.

    Tramway
    Admission free.  Limited capacity, first-come, first-served.

  • 03 Jul

    Sue Tompkins

    Performance: Hallo Welcome to Keith Street (a version) 
    Sunday 3 July, 2pm  

    Gathering her material from literature and everyday life, Sue Tompkins’ dynamic spoken word performances re-energise language and give it new meaning. Using rhythm and repetition, layering, juxtaposition, inversion, elaboration, stresses and pauses, she performs using the text, a plinth and a microphone.

    Gallery of Modern Art 
    Admission free.  Limited capacity, first-come, first-served.

  • 16 Jul

    Tris Vonna-Michell

    Performance: balustrade #3 
    Saturday 16 July, 8pm

    Tris Vonna-Michell’s performances are rapidly delivered monologues that take place in mixed-media installations. His narratives fuse elements from his personal biography with wider history and fiction, testing and retesting notions of memory and place.

    Centre for Contemporary Arts
    Admission free, but ticketed.  To book call 0141 352 4900.

  • 28 Jul

    Nathaniel Mellors

    Screening: Ourhouse Episodes 1, 2 & 4
    Thursday 28 July, 7pm

    As part of CCA’s Beta Movement programme Nathaniel Mellors will introduce three episodes of Ourhouse (a co-production for British Art Show 7 with De Hallen Haarlem). Mellors’ work combines a number of approaches, including drama, sculpture, filmmaking and music, to formulate an individual language with which to address contemporary issues. Ourhouse is influenced by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (1968), with references to Samuel Beckett and Monty Python.

    Centre for Contemporary Arts
    Admission free, but ticketed.  To book call 0141 352 4900.

  • 30 Jul

    Roger Hiorns

    Event: Untitled (boys’ choir)
    Saturday 30 July, 1pm  

    Roger Hiorns' works explore the possible transformation of ideas, actions or materials within the present to anticipate the future. They are isolated investigations, separated from the world and of external narratives, which serve to identify the key forms and rituals present in the world. For this event, the artist has commissioned a unique performance from a Glasgow based boys choir. 

    Tramway
    Admission free.  Limited capacity, first-come, first-served.

  • 31 Jul

    Olivia Plender, Craig Burnett and Dr. Roger Quallen

    Performance: The Lost Works of Johan Riding
    Sunday 31 July, 2pm

    Olivia Plender and Craig Burnett introduce the little-known filmmaker Johan Riding (1950 - 83). They will be joined by his biographer Dr. Roger Quallen, who will discuss Riding's life and works and present some of the material he has excavated while researching Riding's five lost films.

    Gallery of Modern Art
    Admission free.  Limited capacity, first-come, first-served.