http://www.glasgowinternational.org/
KISS OF LIFE
in the Glue Factory
22 Farnell Street. Garscube Ind. Estate. Maryhill
Following the success of the S.A.W. Show in 2007, FINN collective now presents Kiss of Life in the disused Glue Factory by the canal in Maryhill for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2010
FINN collective is a group of young artists who are based around Glasgow: Bobby Niven, Alex Gross, Anna Mields, Nick McCarthy, Manuela Gernedel, Anna McCarthy & Jana Matejkova. FINN themselves will exhibit as well as orchestrate a show with over 20 local and international artists and musicians. FINN will also be offering residencies to artists to make site-specific projects and performances that respond to the architectural, historical and social context of the building and surrounding area.
Accompanying the show there will be a program of music, talks, performance & readings in the FINN bar & canteen.
Kiss of Life will open with a sparkling night and afternoon of events on the
16th of April.
Its charm we will aspire to,
its twilight will make us see,
and from doom and gloom to pride and joy;
this will be our playground and palace
Participating artists and like minded people:
NICOLAS PARTY (SUI)
ARVO LEOPOLD (CN)
BARRY MCLAREN
EAMONN CAMPBELL
PALI-JON PALMAR SIGURDSSON (IS)
HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK (D)
SEBASTIAN DACEY (GB/D)
CLAUS HUGO NIELSEN & TOMMY PETERSEN. (DK)
HEDWIG EBERLE (D)
ANNA WITT (A)
CARA TOLMIE
FEDERICO SANCHEZ (D)
JAN BAUMANN (D)
JONATHAN HOOD
RORY MIDDLETON (GB)
SIGGA BJORG SIGURDARDOTTIR (IS)
REBECCA ERIN MORAN (USA)
JUDY ROSS (D)
CONAL MC STRAVICK
AILEEN CAMPBELL
LISA JUGERT (D)
HRAFNHILDUR HALLDORSDOTTIR (IS)
SARAH SCHÖNFELD (D)
Music at the opening by:
BOX CODAX (GB/D) (manuela &nick)
DAMENKAPELLE (D)
PSYCHEDELIC PIKO BELLO (D)
OMNIVORE DEMON (SCO)
FINN would also like to thank Cairn Estate and Letting Agency for providing accommodation for the international artists partaking in Kiss of Life. Cairn have kindly offered a traditional tenement flat that will allow the artists the time and space to produce site-specific projects in the Glue Factory and will provide them with a central base from which to experience Glasgow.
FINN would like to thank ISIS Waterside Regeneration for the inkind use of the Glue Factory for Kiss of Life. The aim of ISIS is to help breathe new life into the Glasgow Canal, to benefit not only local communities but the rest of Glasgow too. Working with others such as Scottish Opera & RSAMD, ISIS are starting to transform the Speirs Locks area into a world class creative neighbourhood, with the canal, culture and the arts at its heart.
LAST SHOW by the FINN collective was the S.A.W. Show in 2007:
FINN is an art collective that seeks out new, different and unusual sites for art events and exhibitions. FINN creative folk are: Bobby Niven, Manuela Gernedel, Rory Middleton, Anna & Nick McCarthy.
On Saturday the 26th May FINN will be hosting an art event entitled the S.A.W. Show at the former Finnieston saw doctors at 24 Elliot Street. The exhibition opening will take place between 3pm and 8pm and will include over 20 artists, musical performances and a cafe. The exhibition will run from Tuesday 29th May to Friday 1st June, 12pm – 5pm.
DOCUMENTATION IMAGES BY MICHAEL WURSTBAUER HERE
PHOTOS OF THE OPENING HERE by Morag Keil
and more HERE by Mr.Jim Slip
below also by Morag Keil:
The S.A.W. Show will involve a variety of Glasgow based artists as well as artists from the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, Sweden and America. The theme for the S.A.W. Show is provided by the venue itself. This is one of the primary foundations of the exhibition. We have chosen artists that both resonate and contrast with the venue, providing a series of different installations and incidents.
The disused Finnieston saw doctors offers an opportunity to encounter art in alternative contexts. The industrial interior will provide a platform within which the artworks will perform, building up a medley of different encounters and occurrences. The S.A.W. Show attempts to play off the atmosphere of this setting that is submerged in temporal slippage with questions gravitating around industrialization, prosperity, demise, changing state of workspaces and ideals of labour.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Bobby Niven
Manuela Gernedel
Rory Middleton
Anna McCarthy
Nick McCarthy
Baldvin Ringsted
Barry McLaren
Steff Norwood
Morag Keill
Shana Moulton
George Gray
Kristian Koerner
Leanne Coughlin
Jacob Anckarsvard
Martin Clark
Jim Dixon
Keith Boadwee
Michael Wilkinson
Morag Keil
Lucy Stein
Celia Hempton
Andy Knowles
Anna Mields
Alex Gross
Tom Sander
Nicolas Ceccaldi
Jana Matejkova
Jonty Lees
Sigga Bjoerg sigurdardottir
Gino Saconi
Andy Wake
Jihae Simmons
& The Kelvingrove Caf
LIVE! Jo Robertson, Omnivore Demon, Gew Gaw & Glasgow Improvisation Orchestra
The Finnieston saw doctors has remained empty since its closure in 1982 following a decline in the demand for blades to be sharpened in favor of simply discarding the damaged goods and replacing them with new ones. It sits as a silent witness to this shift in our understanding of obsolescence and the consequent transformation of this area of Glasgow from heavy industry to a service industry. The old machinery has a foreboding presence, groaning in damp and dark corners and hanging ominously on ceilings. A space that would once have been alive with kinetic contortions now sits motionless.
LINKS:
music+
http://www.myspace.com/omnivoredemon
http://www.myspace.com/jorobertsonblood39n39feathers
http://www.myspace.com/gewgawandfriends
art+
http://www.bobbyniven.co.uk
Jakob Anckarsvärd:http://www.java10.com/start.html
http://www.shanamoulton.com/
http://www.bloodnfeathers.co.uk
http://www.annamccarthy.de/
http://www.moragkeil.co.uk
contact=finncollective@gmail.com
