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31/1/2012

(SAC) Ongoing bodies

Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA, Glasgow

Working collaboratively, artists Simone Hutchinson, Alex Kennedy and Conal McStravick will develop a moving image and sound installation derived from a co-authored text. (SAC) Ongoing bodies: Syndrome de Paris Suite re-contextualises a series of performances filmed at CCA and Glasgow School of Art, in 2010.

The installation explores ideas of Orientalism (specifically Japonisme), referencing Japanese Kabuki opera, The Heron Maiden; where the male actor in a female role (onnagata) symbolises the problem of embodying the other sex. Other references include Samuel Beckett’s Quad and the body performances of artist Dan Graham.

Presented on a series of domestic and gallery monitors, the installation uses the viewer’s movements within the space to trigger sensors that regulate and ‘edit’ the situation and experience of the work.

About Simone Hutchinson, Alex Kennedy and Conal McStravick
Simone Hutchinson (born Middlesborough) is currently researching a PhD in English Literature, investigating the politics and aesthetics of work and labour in fiction, at the University of Glasgow.

Alexander Kennedy (born Stirling) currently manages a small Glasgow-based publishing press, Daat Press. He has worked for a number of years as a critic and art historian at the University of Glasgow and Edinburgh College of Art.

Conal McStravick (born Lurgan) is an artist based in London who works with moving image, text and installation. Graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 2005, he served on the Transmission Gallery Committee until 2009 and participated in LUX Associate Artists Programme 2011.

Press contact
Clare Harris Phone: 07957 652 701, 0141 352 4912 press@cca-glasgow.com

Wednesday 1 February, 6 - 8pm

Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow
Hours: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Admission free

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