Interspecies Talks – Lucy Duncombe, Jack Wansbrough & Timothea Armour
03.12.18
Celine and Ideal Mexico present an evening of talks with Lucy Duncombe, Jack Wansbrough and Timothea Armour.
The evening will be also the last day to see our current exhibition; The Yips with works from Titania Seidl, Céline Struger and Lukas Thaler.
Timothea Armour will speak about The Neighbours are Bats, a project using bat detector recordings to imagine a band with five common British bat species as its members. The talk will look at cohabiting with wildlife - specifically bats in urban spaces - and the role of technology in our encounters with 'nature'.
Jack Wansbrough will present some of the research towards Wet Courage, a pop tape about 1960s and 1970s cetology, released by Glarc in November. Using archive recordings, the talk will touch on representation of dolphins and whales, interspecies communication and metamorphosis.
Lucy Duncombe will present a somewhat poetic review of inter/intraspecies communication between human vocalists and human-made machines. It looks at examples of technologies (*voice changers and vocoding, voice cloning, Amazon Echo, vocal biometrics), that enable the capture and analysis of the voice, altering the ways we ‘read’ our utterances. The contents of the talk is research material of a kind for a new musical work being developed with William Aikman called A Snapshot To Fix U 4-Eva.
The Yips MAUVE at Céline – Titania Seidl, Céline Struger & Lukas Thaler
04.11.18 - 02.12.18
Céline is proud to host the return leg of our exchange with MAUVE, Vienna
Titania Seidl (b.1988 in Vienna)
She recently exhibited at Parallel Vienna (solo), destiny’s atelier, Oslo (solo), Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (group), Casa Blanca, Mexico City (group), M HKA, Antwerpen (group), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (group), Club Pro Los Angeles (group), Galerie Nathalie Halgand, Vienna (group), MUSA, Vienna (solo).
She studied at University of Applied Arts, Vienna and Newcastle University.
Céline Struger (b. 1982 in Klagenfurt) is based in Vienna and Lower Austria.
She recently exhibited at Gachang Art Space, Korea (solo), Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt (solo), K.A.S. Galéria, Budapest (group), Gallery Frewein Kazabaev, Vienna (group), Kaeshmesh, Vienna (solo), GOMO, Vienna (group), Saarländische Galerie, Berlin (group).
She studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and graduated from University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Lukas Thaler (b.1989 in Hall in Tirol)
He recently exhibited at Guimaraes,Vienna (group), MUSA ,Vienna (solo), Ginny/Sinkhole, London (group), Casa Blanca, Mexico City (group), Ferdinandeum Innsbruck (group), Club Pro, Los Angeles (group), Drop City, Newcastle (group,) Spektrum Tower, Warschau (group), Galerie im Andechshof, Innsbruck (solo), Fait Gallery, Brno (solo).
He studied at University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
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Photography: Sean Campbell
MUD: Organised by Hypothermia HQ – Dachi Cole, Candice Williams, Reba Maybury, Natasha Stagg & Clarinda Tse
29.09.2018
Celine Gallery proudly presents MUD (Multiple-User Dungeon) organised by Glasgow based production team Hypothermia HQ. Attention: To ensure entry please arrive early. Capacity is limited and doors will close at 9pm while performances run. Performances will contain explicit sexual content.
A Multiple-User Dungeon is a multiplayer real-time virtual world. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and chat. Players can view descriptions of rooms, objects, other players, non-player characters, and actions performed in the virtual world.
Doors at 8:00 pm. Performances will run on time from 9pm-10pm.
Candice Williams & Dachi Cole are artists working in sculpture, digital media and clothing. Reba Maybury is a writer, research consultant, model, lecturer, political dominatrix and founder of Wet Satin Press. Natasha Stagg is a writer, editor and author of Surveys published by Semiotext(e). Clarinda Tse is a Glasgow based artist. Her work employs movement, objects, body, and self.
Hypothermia HQ is a Glasgow based production team founded by Alex Fleming, Clarinda Tse, Francisco Ortega, and Nastja No.
Festivities begin on Saturday night September 29th at Jo Brand Gallery from 5-8pm for the opening of Caroline Mesquita & Tore Wallert. Please check it out before heading to Celine. https://www.facebook.com/events/684947051884202/
Parallel Vienna – Judith Leupi & Toby Christian
26.09.2018 - 30.09.2018
Celine is ecstatic to present the work of Judith Leupi and Toby Christian at Parallel Vienna.
Both artists practice have an ongoing concern for the object detached from its original environment and function; overlooked details from everyday architecture and structure, with an interested in the surface and materiality. The various attempts of translation and the possibility of giving the subject a new formal idiom through each of their interventions generate the potential of a new reference space to the viewer.
Judith Leupi (born 1983, Switzerland) lives and works in Glasgow, her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions including, The Lauriston Arches, Glasgow; The Glue Factory, Glasgow; the Waterfront, Belfast; Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Lucerne; Gelbes Haus, Lucerne; Centre Pasquart, Biel; lokal.int, Biel; Kunsthaus Langenthal; Sihlhalle, Zurich; Project R.F.Z.K. Berne; Kunstmuseum Thun; Museé Jurassien des Arts, Moutier.
Toby Christian (born 1983, UK) lives and works in London. His books Collar and Measures are published by Koenig Books, London. Christian’s work has also been included in exhibitions at the Bloomberg Space, London; Gasworks, London; The Freud Museum, London; The Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Armory Show, New York; The Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Santander Cultural Centre, Porto Alegre, Brazil and The New Art Gallery, Walsall.
Nightmares – Alex Rathbone, Urara Tsuchiya & Max Brand
06.08.2018 - 02.09.2018
Celine is excited to invite you to Nightmares a show with work by Alex Rathbone, Urara Tsuchiya and Max Brand.
Photography: Sean Campbell
Near me Need Help Edinburgh Leisure
21.04.2018 - 20.05.2018
Celine is ecstatic to present Near me Need Help an exhibition by Edinburgh Leisure.
There is a certain aesthetic ambience that Edinburgh Leisure taps into and adapts to its own ends. Despite eschewing any kind of direct commentary, it is committed to its own carefully honed brand of realism. The group takes its name from a trust operating sport and fitness facilities in Edinburgh, which functions at ‘arms-length’ from the City Council. Adopting the banal in-house graphics of this organisation and others like it, Edinburgh Leisure holds up a mirror to the semiotic landscape of contemporary Scottish life. This is a landscape where the signifiers of privatised civic infrastructure vie for attention with those of syndicated digital platforms, engendering a broader political situation that poses significant challenges to previously held conceptions of both governmental responsibility and corporate accountability.
The three metal grills affixed to the windows of the gallery share an affinity with the visual effects that accompany Edinburgh Leisure’s live shows. At these performances, logos appropriated from a range of sources –often popular media outlets such as BBC, ITV4, Dave, Netflix, Pornhub– are passed through computer software that converts them into animated forms determined by the music being played. At Celine, the ‘daisy wheel’ branding used by the Royal Bank of Scotland since 1969 has been treated in a similarly fetishistic manner, undergoing a process of abstraction before being plasma-cut into sheet steel. These objects are, like the Resolume VJ software that powers the visuals of an Edinburgh Leisure performance, designed to function as generators of live imagery. This form of presentation could just as easily be described as a protracted event as an exhibition. It could almost be interpreted as an inhabitable version of the limbo-like television idents used to abridge programming and advertisements.
In equal measure the appropriated logo that features on these grills embodies national stereotypes of fiscal prudence, as well as connotations of the leveraged practices that eventually led to the bank’s bailout during the 2008 financial crisis. While occupying the position of Victorian shuttering traditionally found in Glaswegian tenement flats, the steel panels sport the industrial appearance of perforated cladding used to secure vacant buildings. Throwing shadows onto the walls and floors of the gallery the effect is a literalisation of the largely unseen, yet all-encompassing backdrop that corporate entities such as Royal Bank of Scotland play in our everyday lives.
Just as the growing obfuscation of the boundaries between public services and free-market sovereignty can be characterised as one of the leitmotifs of contemporary society, this installation is likewise inscrutably layered. It is with a distinctly sardonic air that such incongruous material has been re-deployed in the service of immersive spectacle. However, this does not reflect mere cynicism on the part of Edinburgh Leisure, but is rather an inversion of the insidious annexation of collective resources by private concerns. For them, establishing momentary ownership over this class of imagery is a means of making it ‘dance to our music.’
Text by Neil Clements
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Photography: David Excoffier
Glare
25.03.2018
This event explores self-organisation, DIY cultures and the ways in which people resist an ever-increasing demand to professionalise and legitimise their actions. With live musical performances from Alicia Matthews (LAPS and Sue Zuki) and Susannah Stark alongside a programme of moving image including Lucy Thane’s It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill In the UK (1993), Alberta Whittle’sMammmmmywata presents Life Solutions International (2016) and Juliana Huxtable’s A Split During Laughter at the Rally (2017). Alberta Whittle will also be sharing a new text based piece.
I See You Man
25.02.2018 - 31.03.2018
Celine is happy to present an exhibition organised by Nadia Hebson and Sophie Macpherson:
In summer of 2016 Sophie Macpherson and I (Nadia Hebson) worked on a text which explored our shared interests in apparel, physicality, female subjectivity and friendship. Drawing on skype and email conversations the text took an epistolary form and ranged through personal perspectives on women artists’ practices and international events such as the ‘migrant crisis’ and the EU Referendum, alongside descriptions of sports clothing and club wear, and reflections on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the paintings of Christina Ramberg. An unguarded but none the less edited script, the text became a short hand for the creative space of female friendship.
Writing about Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels which detail the lifetime relationship of two women from an impoverished Neapolitan neighbourhood the writer Natasha Soobramanien likens the women’s friendship to an act of translation. Soobramanien writes ‘Lila and Lenù are translated beings, translating one another, shifting continually between the Neapolitan dialect of their childhood and the standard form of Italian both have a talent for expressing themselves in. And it is in this more rarefied linguistic sphere that Lenù finds success, and her professional voice as a writer (a voice modelled on Lila’s writerly voice)’. Lila and Lenu steel themselves through the confines of 60’s, 70s’ and 80’s femininity through the persistence of their complex friendship, which Ferrante so carefully atomises. They see one another and at times offer each a template for being, Ferrante’s writing of their friendship is closely analogous to the experience of creative friendship. And to understand female friendship as a form of translation is to recalibrate its constituents, becoming a space of attention, mirroring, testing, exchange, admiration and productive envy, a space of agency.
In taking the complexities of female friendship and the communicative possibilities of dress as a starting point we have invited artists and writers who are friends and potential friends to contribute work to I See You Man. These artists and writers work explore ideas of mentorship, resonance as described by Italian Feminist Carla Lonzi, feminist activism, translation, biography, fictional autobiography and the agency of dress.
Exhibiting artists: Phoebe Blatton and Annika Hüttmann, August Fröhls, Nadia Hebson, Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge, Ellen Lesperance, Sophie Macpherson, Julia Schmidt, Clemence Seilles, Clare Stephenson
The title of the show ‘I See You Man’ is taken from work by Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge.
On Saturday 31st March Celine will host an afternoon of performance, readings, talks and a reading group where the following texts and related material will be discussed. The below books and texts will be available throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Library:
Ingeborg Bachman, Three Paths to the Lake
Lucia Berlin, Manual for Cleaning Women
Kate Briggs, This Little Art
Daniela Cascella, Singed
Elfriede Jellinek, Jackie http://siti.org/sites/default/files/JACKIE_WP_2.27.13.pdf
Carla Lonzi, Autoritratto
Dorothy Richardson, Painted Roofs
Natasha Soobramanien Five Notes on Smarginature https://writingsoundbergen.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/five-notes-on-smarginature-by-natasha-soobramanien/
Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T
Photography: David Excoffier